Lyrics of Jo Vinc D'un Silenci - Raimon

Jo Vinc D'un Silenci (original)

Jo vinc d’un silenci
Antic i molt llarg
De gent que va alçant-se
Des del fons dels segles
De gent que anomenen
Classes subalternes
Jo vinc d’un silenci
Antic i molt llarg
Jo vinc de les places
I dels carrers plens
De xiquets que juguen
I de vells que esperen
Mentre homes i dones
Estan treballant
Als petits tallers
A casa o al camp
Jo vinc d’un silenci
Que no és resignat
D’on comença l’horta
I acaba el secà
D’esforç i blasfèmia
Perquè tot va mal:
Qui perd els orígens
Perd identitat
Jo vinc d’un silenci
Antic i molt llarg
De gent sense místics
Ni grans capitans
Que viuen i moren
En l’anonimat
Que en frases solemnes
No han cregut mai
Jo vinc d’una lluita
Que és sorda i constant
Jo vinc d’un silenci
Que romprà la gent
Que ara vol ser lliure
I estima la vida
Que exigeix les coses
Que li han negat
Jo vinc d’un silenci
Antic i molt llarg
Jo vinc d’un silenci
Que no és resignat
Jo vinc d’un silenci
Que la gent romprà
Jo vinc d’una lluita
Que és sorda i constant

(translation)

I come from a silence
Old and very long
Of people who are rising
From the bottom of the centuries
Of people they call
Subaltern classes
I come from a silence
Old and very long
I come from the squares
And full streets
Of children playing
And of old men who wait
While men and women
They are working
In the small workshops
At home or in the field
I come from a silence
Which is not resigned
Where the vegetable garden begins
And the drought ends
Of effort and blasphemy
Because everything goes wrong:
Who loses the origins
Lose identity
I come from a silence
Old and very long
Of people without mystics
Nor great captains
That they live and die
In anonymity
That in solemn sentences
They never believed
I come from a struggle
That it is deaf and constant
I come from a silence
That will break people
That now he wants to be free
And love life
That demands things
That they have denied him
I come from a silence
Old and very long
I come from a silence
Which is not resigned
I come from a silence
That people will break
I come from a struggle
That it is deaf and constant