Текст и перевод песни Violeta Parra - Una Copla Me Han Cantado

Una Copla Me Han 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 la 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 They Sang to Me

A verse they sang to me
The gift that I desire.
With that verse like a knife
They have stabbed my voice to death.

They think that I don't understand
What was sung in their verse:
From its first note
It laid bare my reason.

I asked them for a glass of water.
I won't deny they gave it to me,
But like you give it to a dog,
The scraps that are left.

A thousand times they have repeated
The verse like an endless clock,
When one would have sufficed
To silence my voice.

You may wonder,
What verse did they sing to me?
It's like the thunderclap
That kills without rhyme or reason.