As he often does, Silvio Rodriguez connects his feelings for someone--a lover it seems, although that is almost irrelevant--with the act of writing and making music.
The song is packed with commentary about the act of making art. With his songs he remembers and continues a connection with that absent person. At first he´s asking her to appear through the songs he writes about her. Then he he takes a moment, looks around and starts thinking about society as a whole, "la ciudad se derrumba y yo cantando". From One of the wonderful things about Silvio is his ability to turn a love song into social copmmentary. This happens explicitely in this song as he says that through this love song he can also make a speech about his right to speak, say "patria", and that his hands make songs but can also kill. A song can be everything from a declaration of love to "un disparo, un libro, una palabra, una guerrilla".
This is one of the best written songs I´ve ever encountered.
As he often does, Silvio Rodriguez connects his feelings for someone--a lover it seems, although that is almost irrelevant--with the act of writing and making music. The song is packed with commentary about the act of making art. With his songs he remembers and continues a connection with that absent person. At first he´s asking her to appear through the songs he writes about her. Then he he takes a moment, looks around and starts thinking about society as a whole, "la ciudad se derrumba y yo cantando". From One of the wonderful things about Silvio is his ability to turn a love song into social copmmentary. This happens explicitely in this song as he says that through this love song he can also make a speech about his right to speak, say "patria", and that his hands make songs but can also kill. A song can be everything from a declaration of love to "un disparo, un libro, una palabra, una guerrilla". This is one of the best written songs I´ve ever encountered.