Asturias

Víctor Manuelle
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Asturias si yo pudiera

Asturias, if I could

se yo supiera cantarte

if I knew how to sing to you

Asturias verde de montes

Asturias, green with mountains

y negra de minerales...

and black with minerals...

Yo soy un hombre del sur

I am a man from the south

plovo, sol fatiga y hambre

dust, sun, fatigue, and hunger

hambre de pan y horizontes... hambre

hunger for bread and horizons... hunger

Bajo la piel resecada

Under the dried skin

rios sólidos se sangre

solid rivers of blood

y el corazón asfixiado

and the suffocated heart

sin venas para aliviarte.

without veins to relieve you.

Los ojos ciegos los ojos

The blind eyes, the eyes

ciegos de tanto mirarte

blind from looking at you so much

sin verte Asturias lejana.

without seeing you, distant Asturias.

Hija de mi misma madre

Daughter of my own mother

dos veces dos has tenido

twice you had the chance

ocasión par jugarte

to play for life

La vida en una partida

in a game

y las dos te la jugaste

and both times you risked it.

¿Quién derribara ese arbol

Who will knock down that tree

de Asturias ya un ramaje?

of Asturias, its branches already?

Desnudo, seco, clavado,

Naked, dry, nailed,

con su raiz entrañable

with its intimate root

que corre por toda España

that runs throughout Spain

crispandonos de coraje.

making us tense with courage.

Mirad obreros del mundo su silueta recortarse

Look, workers of the world, its silhouette stands out

contra ese cielo impasible

against that impassive sky

vertical inquebrantable.

vertically unbreakable.

Firme sobre roca firme

Firm on rock firm

herida viva su carne

its living flesh wounded

millones de puños griban

millions of fists scream

su cólera por los aires.

their anger through the air.

Millones de corazones

Millions of hearts

golpean contra tus carceles

beat against your prisons

prepara tu salto ultimo

prepare for your last jump

livida muerte cobarde.

livid cowardly death.

Prepara tu ultimo salto

Prepare for your last jump

que Asturias sesta aguardandote

because Asturias is waiting for you

sola en mitad de la tierra

alone in the middle of the earth

hija de mi misma madre.

daughter of my own mother.

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