Silvio Rodríguez "El Necio" lyrics

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El Necio

Para no hacer de mi ícono pedazos,para salvarme entre únicos e impares,para cederme un lugar en su parnaso,para darme un rinconcito en sus altares.Me vienen a convidar a arrepentirme,me vienen a convidar a que no pierda,mi vienen a convidar a indefinirme,me vienen a convidar a tanta mierda.

yo no se lo que es el destino,caminando fui lo que fui.allá dios, que será divino.yo me muero como viví,yo me muero como viví.

yo quiero seguir jugando a lo perdido,yo quiero ser a la zurda más que diestro,yo quiero hacer un congreso del unido,yo quiero rezar a fondo un "hijo nuestro".Dirán que pasó de moda la locura,dirán que la gente es mala y no merece,más yo seguiré soñando travesuras(acaso multiplicar panes y peces).yo no se lo que es el destino,caminando fui lo que fui.allá dios, que será divino.yo me muero como viví,yo me muero como viví.

yo me muero como viví,como vivíyo me muero como viví.Dicen que me arrastrarán po sobre rocascuando la revolución se venga abajo,que machacarán mis manos y mi boca,que me arrancarán los ojos y el badajo.será que la necedad parió conmigo,la necedad de lo que hoy resulta necio:la necedad de asumir al enemigo,la necedad de vivir sin tener precio.

yo no se lo que es el destino,caminando fui lo que fui.allá dios, que será divino.yo me muero como viví.

yo me muero como viví.

The Stubborn

So that my icon won't be shattered.So that I will be saved among uniques and odds.So that I will get a place in their parnasus.So that they will give me a little corner in their altars.They came to ask me to repent.They came to ask me not to lose.They came to ask me to get undefined.They came to offer so much shit.

I don't know what fate is.Walking, I became what I am.Let god be the one divine.I'll die as I lived.I'll die as I lived.

I want to keep defending lost causes.I want to be more left than right.I want to make a united congress.I want to deeply pray a "Holy Son".They'll say that being crazy is old fashioned.They'll say that people is bad and non worthy,but I'll keep dreaming being mischievous,maybe, to multiply bread and fishes.I don't know what fate is.Walking, I became what I am.Let god be the one divine.I'll die as I lived.I'll die as I lived.

I'll die as I lived.As I lived.I'll die as I lived.They say that they will drag me over rockswhen the revolution ends.That they will smash my hands and mouth.That they will take my eyes and my clapper.May it be that stubbornness was born with me.The stubbornness of what is now stubborn.The stubbornness of assuming a foe.The stubbornness of living without having a price tag.

I don't know what fate is.Walking, I became what I am.Let god be the one divine.I'll die as I lived.I'll die as I lived.

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