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Abra las Rejas, Señor Gobierno

Expresión Joven
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In quegli anni sia il leader della formazione Expresión Joven, Ramón Leonardo, che alcuni suoi membri furono ripetutamente arrestati e incarcerati, nonostante la notorietà internazionale che il gruppo aveva assunto in seguito alla sua partecipazione al festival "Primer Encuentro Internacional de la Nueva Canción Siete Días con el Pueblo" (fine 1974), che aveva visto esibirsi artisti del calibro di Mercedes Sosa e Silvio Rodríguez...
Miro hacia todas partes
y a uno y otro lado... carceles
pasos perdidos recorriendo un pasillo
que conduce a la soledad de una celda
Rejas que se abren, se cierran
y con ellas hombres sepultados en vida
Todavia se pretende encarcelar
a las ideas.

Señor gobierno
a las ideas, nunca pretenda
meterlas presas.
En esos muros,
tras esa rejas, ya no estan ellas.

Y es que no es cierto
señor gobierno
que alguna idea, puede estar presa.

Porque la idea, puede ser canto
sonrisa o verso, mas o materia
Esas ideas
son solo espejo
son el mañana con su reflejo
Abra las rejas
Señor gobierno
para que salgan
Señor gobierno
los que estan presos
Señor gobiernopor lo que piensan
Señor gobierno
pues sus ideas, señor gobierno
nunca estuvieron, tras de las rejas.

Y es que no cierto señor gobierno
que alguna idea, puede estar presa.

Abra las rejas
Señor gobierno, abra las rejas!

Contributed by Alessandro - 2009/10/7 - 12:01



Language: English

Traduzione inglese di Laura Engler Perez, dal libretto che accompagna l'album.
OPEN THE JAIL HOUSE DOORS MR. PRESIDENT

I look in all directions.
and to one side and the other—jails.
lost steps. travelling a passageway
that leads to the solitude ofa cell.
Jail doors that open and close.
And, with them, men buried in life.
Still they pretend to imprison
ideas.

Mr. President
never pretend that ideas
can be imprisoned.
Inside these walls.
behind those bars, they are no longer there.

And it's not true
Mr. President
that an idea can be imprisoned.

Because an idea can be a song
a smile or a poem, but not an object.
Those ideas
are only a mirror.
They are the morning with its reflection.
Open the jails
Mr. President
so they can leave

Mr. President
those who were imprisoned
Mr. President
for what they think
Mr. President
since their ideas, Mr. President
have never been behind the bars

And it's not true
Mr. President
that an idea can be imprisoned.

Open the jail doors
Mr. President, open the jails.

Contributed by Alessandro - 2010/2/25 - 15:49




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