Paroles et traduction Silvio Rodríguez - Érase Que Se Era

Érase Que Se Era

Eramos una vez un grupo de nueve o diez
Que coincidía cada noche:
Una suerte de sueños que hacían cuadrilla,
Unos buenos muchachos riendo juntos.
Érase que se era una vez...
Por esa época se amaba tanto, qué sé yo:
¡qué época tanta de amores!
Desfilábamos juntos, se hacían poemas,
Y las calles que buenos gustos tenían.
Érase que se era una vez...
De uno en fondo pasábamos
Era uno, eran dos, eran tantos qué sé yo,
Pero era bonito mirarnos, vernos sufrir.
Érase que se era una vez...
Era imposible pasar un sólo día sin morir,
Sin gritar, sin reír, sin comprender, sin amar.
Qué desastre de gente que no podía estar en paz.
Érase que se era una vez...
Yo no sé si fue el tiempo que lo vuela todo,
O si fuimos nosotros detonando el tiempo,
Pero nos fragmentamos como una granada.
Érase que se era una vez...
Yo no sé si ha llovido una lluvia que moje
Cada esquirla en el sitio en que haya caído,
Si hay guardada una tarde común en el tiempo.
Érase que se era una vez...
Yo no sé si ha servido de algo o de nada
Que haya habido pasado y que quede recuerdo.
Yo no sé si mañana pensaré lo que hoy vivo.
Érase que se era una vez...

Was It Once Upon a Time

We were once a group of nine or ten
Who used to meet every night:
A gathering of some kind of dreams,
A couple of good guys laughing together.
Was it once upon a time...
At that time, we loved so much, what do I know:
What a time of so much falling in love!
We used to parade together, we used to write poems,
And the streets that had such good taste.
Was it once upon a time...
We would pass by one after another
It was one, it was two, it was how many I don't know,
But it was nice to look at ourselves, to see ourselves suffering.
Was it once upon a time...
It was impossible to spend a single day without dying,
Without screaming, without laughing, without understanding, without loving.
What a disaster of people who couldn't be at peace.
Was it once upon a time...
I don't know if it was time that flies away with everything,
Or if it was us detonating time,
But we fragmented like a grenade.
Was it once upon a time...
I don't know if it has rained a rain that wets
Each shrapnel in the place where it has fallen,
If there is a common afternoon saved in time.
Was it once upon a time...
I don't know if it has been of any use or not
That there was a past and that there is a memory.
I don't know if tomorrow I will think what I live today.
Was it once upon a time...