Paroles et traduction Violeta Parra - Una Copla Me Ha Cantado

Una Copla Me Ha Cantado

Una copla me ha cantado
la prenda que quiero yo,
con esa copla a cuchillo
me ha desangrado la voz.

Pensará que yo no entiendo
lo que en su copla cantó,
desde su primera nota
se me acostó en la razón.

Yo le pedí un vaso de agua,
no niego que me lo dio,
pero como se da al perro
el resto que le sobró.

Mil veces me ha repetido
la copla como un reloj,
cuando con una bastaba
pa silenciarme la voz.

Cuál será, dirán ustedes,
la copla que me cantó;
es igual que el estampido
que mata sin son ni ton.

A Verse Was Sung to Me

A verse was sung to me
By the one I love,
With that verse like a knife
My voice has been bled.

He thinks I don't understand
What his verse sang,
From his first note
He settled in my reason.

I asked him for a glass of water,
I don't deny he gave it to me,
But like you give to a dog
The rest he had left over.

A thousand times he repeated
The verse like a clock,
When one was enough
To silence my voice.

What will it be, you will say,
The verse he sang to me;
It's like the gunshot
That kills without rhyme or reason.