Los Chalchaleros — Sapo Cancionero song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Sapo Cancionero" by Los Chalchaleros.
Lyrics
Sapo de la noche, sapo cancionero
Que vives soñando junto a tu laguna
Tenor de los charcos, grotesco trovero*
Estás embrujado de amor por la luna
Yo sé de tu vida sin gloria ninguna;
Sé de las tragedias de tu alma inquieta
Y esa tu locura de amor a la luna
Es locura eterna de todo poeta
Sapo cancionero:
Canta tu canción
Que la vida es triste
Si no la vivimos con una ilusión
Tú te sabes feo, feo y contrahecho;
Por eso de día tu fealdad ocultas
Y de noche cantas tu melancolía
Y suena tu canto como letanía
Repican tus voces en franca porfía;
Tus coplas son vanas como son tan bellas
¿no sabes, acaso, que la luna es fría
Porque dió su sangre para las estrellas?
Lyrics translation
Night Frog, Song frog
That you live Dreaming by your lagoon
Tenor of the puddles, grotesque trovero*
You're haunted by love for the moon
I know of your life without glory;
I know of the tragedies of your restless soul
And that crazy love of the moon
It is the Eternal Madness of every poet
Song frog:
Sing Your Song
That life is sad
If we don't live it with an illusion
You know you're ugly, ugly and wrong;
That's why in the day you hide your ugliness
And at night you sing your melancholy
And your singing sounds like litany
They sound your voices in frankly porphyry;
Your couplets are vain as they are so beautiful
don't you know that the moon is cold
Why did he give his blood to the stars?