Lyrics of El Necio - Silvio Rodríguez, Luis Eduardo Aute

El Necio (original)

Para no hacer de mi ícono pedazos
Para salvarme entre únicos e impares
Para cederme un lugar en su parnaso
Para darme un rinconcito en sus altares
Me vienen a convidar a arrepentirme
Me vienen a convidar a que no pierda
Mi vienen a convidar a indefinirme
Me vienen a convidar a tanta mierda
Yo no se lo que es el destino
Caminando fui lo que fui
Allá dios, que será divino
Yo me muero como viví
Yo me muero como viví
Yo quiero seguir jugando a lo perdido
Yo quiero ser a la zurda más que diestro
Yo quiero hacer un congreso del unido
Yo quiero rezar a fondo un «hijo nuestro»
Dirán que pasó de moda la locura
Dirán que la gente es mala y no merece
Más yo seguiré soñando travesuras
(acaso multiplicar panes y peces)
Yo no se lo que es el destino
Caminando fui lo que fui
Allá dios, que será divino
Yo me muero como viví
Yo me muero como viví
Yo me muero como viví
Como viví
Yo me muero como viví
Dicen que me arrastrarán po sobre rocas
Cuando la revolución se venga abajo
Que machacarán mis manos y mi boca
Que me arrancarán los ojos y el badajo
Será que la necedad parió conmigo
La necedad de lo que hoy resulta necio:
La necedad de asumir al enemigo
La necedad de vivir sin tener precio
Yo no se lo que es el destino
Caminando fui lo que fui
Allá dios, que será divino
Yo me muero como viví
Yo me muero como viví

(translation)

So as not to make my icon pieces
To save me between unique and odd
To give me a place in his Parnassus
To give me a little corner in their altars
They come to invite me to repent
They come to invite me not to lose
They come to invite me to indefinitely
They come to invite me to so much shit
I don't know what destiny is
Walking I was what I was
There God, it will be divine
I die as I lived
I die as I lived
I want to continue playing the lost game
I want to be left-handed more than right-handed
I want to make a congress of the united
I want to pray thoroughly a "son of ours"
They will say that madness is out of fashion
They will say that people are bad and do not deserve
More I will continue dreaming pranks
(perhaps multiply loaves and fishes)
I don't know what destiny is
Walking I was what I was
There God, it will be divine
I die as I lived
I die as I lived
I die as I lived
how i lived
I die as I lived
They say they'll drag me over rocks
When the revolution falls apart
That my hands and my mouth will crush
That my eyes and clapper will be ripped out
It will be that the foolishness gave birth to me
The foolishness of what today is foolish:
The foolishness of assuming the enemy
The foolishness of living without having a price
I don't know what destiny is
Walking I was what I was
There God, it will be divine
I die as I lived
I die as I lived