Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Del Pasado Efímero, artist - Joan Manuel Serrat.
Date of issue: 08.09.2003
Song language: Spanish
Del Pasado Efímero(original) |
Este hombre del casino provinciano |
que vió a Carancha recibir un día, |
tiene mustia la piel, el pelo cano |
ojos velados por melancolía |
bajo el bigote gris, labios de hastío, |
y una triste expresión que no es tristeza, |
sino algo más y menos: el vacío |
del mundo en la orquendad de su cabeza. |
Aún luce de corintio terciopelo |
chaqueta y pantalón abotinado, |
y un cordobés color de caramelo |
pulido y torneado. |
Tres veces heredó y tres ha perdido |
al monte su caudal; |
dos ha enviudado. |
Sólo se anima ante el azar prohibido |
sobre el verde tapete reclinado, |
o al evocar la tarde de un torero |
la suerte de un tahúr o si alguien cuenta |
la hazaña de un gallardo bandolero, |
o la proeza de un matón, sangrienta. |
Bosteza de políticas banales |
dicterios al gobierno reaccionario |
y augura que vendrán los liberales |
cual torna la cigüeña al campanario. |
Un poco labrador, de cielo aguarda |
y al cielo teme; |
alguna vez suspira |
pensando en su olivar, al cielo mira |
con ojos inquietos si la lluvia tarda. |
Lo demás, taciturno, hipocondríaco |
prisionero de la Arcadia del presente |
le aburre; |
sólo el humo del tabaco |
simula algunas sombras en su frente. |
Este hombre no es de ayer, ni es de mañana |
sino de nunca; |
de la cepa hispana. |
No es el fruto maduro, ni podrido, |
es una fruta vana |
de aquella España que pasó y no ha sido |
esa que hoy tiene la cabeza cana. |
(translation) |
This country casino man |
who saw Carancha receive one day, |
he has withered skin, gray hair |
eyes veiled by melancholy |
under the gray mustache, lips of boredom, |
and a sad expression that is not sadness, |
but something more and less: the void |
of the world in the orbit of his head of it. |
He still wears corinthian velvet |
jacket and buttoned trousers, |
and a caramel-colored cordovan |
polished and turned. |
He three times he inherited and three times he has lost |
to the mount his flow from him; |
two have been widowed. |
He is only encouraged by the forbidden chance |
reclining on the green rug, |
or by evoking the afternoon of a bullfighter |
the luck of a gambler or if someone tells |
the feat of a gallant bandit, |
or the feat of a thug, bloody. |
Yawning of banal politics |
dictates to the reactionary government |
and predicts that the liberals will come |
which returns the stork to the bell tower. |
A little farmer, from heaven awaits |
and he fears heaven; |
he ever sighs |
thinking of his olive grove, he looks to the sky |
with restless eyes if the rain lasts. |
The rest, taciturn, hypochondriac |
prisoner of present day arcadia |
he bores her; |
just tobacco smoke |
simulates some shadows on his forehead from him. |
This man is not from yesterday, nor is he from tomorrow |
but of never; |
of the Hispanic strain. |
He is not the ripe fruit, nor rotten, |
it is a vain fruit |
of that Spain that passed and has not been |
the one that today has gray hair. |