Carlos Varela - Habaname

[umbertino]

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Varela

 

Original Lyrics

 

Mirando un album de fotos
de la vieja capital,
desde los tiempo remotos
de La Habana colonial.

Mi padre dej su tierra
y cuando al Morro lleg,
La Habana le abri sus piernas
y por eso nac yo.

Habana, Habana
si bastara una cancin
para devolverte todo
lo que el tiempo te quit.
Habana,mi Habana
si supieras el dolor
que siento te canto
y no entiendes que es amor.

Escuchando a Matamoros
desde un lejano lugar
la Habana guarda un tesoro
que es difcil olvidar.

Y los aos van pasando
y miramos con dolor,
como se va derrumbando
cada muro de ilusion.

Habana, Habana
si bastara una cancion
para devolverte todo
lo que el tiempo te quit.

Habana,mi Habana
si supieras el dolor
que siento te canto
y no entiendes que este llanto
es por amor.

 

 

 

Translation

 

Looking at a photo album

of the old capital

from the remote times

of Colonial Havana

my father left his country

and when he got to the Morro

Havana opened her legs

and that's how I was born

Havana Havana

if a song was enough

to give you back everything

that Time took away

Havana, my Havana

 if you knew the pain

that I feel when I sing about you

and you don't understand this is love

Listening to Matamoros

 from a place far away

Havana attends a treasure

that it's difficult to forget

 

And the years go by

 and we watch with pain

how all the walls of delusion

 go crumbling

 

Havana Havana

if a song was enough

to give you back everything

that Time took away

 

Havana Havana

 if you knew the pain

that I feel when I sing about you

and you don't understand this cry is for love