Hoy No Quiero Estar Lejos de La Casa Y El Arbol
Silvio Rodriguez
Today I Don't Want to Be Far from Home and the Tree
Today I don't want to be far from home and the tree.
Today I would like to embrace my submerged city
—mouth of the corals, soul of the sponges,
hardness of the stones that are sometimes found,
eyes of the starfish and the fish—.
Today I want to sing to you beyond,
beyond where the song must reach.
How am I going to change the color of a wave.
What can one desire if everything is horizon.
What am I going to teach the sum of the wind.
What can I object to a starry night
with my yellow sail and my patched prow.
Today I want to sing to you beyond,
beyond where the song must reach.
Today I don't want to be far from home and the tree.
Every curl of the ground is a recounted dream,
something like a memory, an image, a kiss
and on the back of the day that something remains.
Today I don't want to be far from home and the tree.
Today I want to sing to you beyond,
beyond where the song must reach
—my song—.
