Willie Colon (Ft. Cucco Peña) - Idilio = idyll

Happy New Year 2019 to everyone!. I had some time and came in to do my the last translation in 2018. This song is a Top 10 Salsa Classic of all time for me. The trumpet solo by Willie Colon and the whole orchestra is a true representation of the life in Salsa. I know every sound on this track and you will always see me imitate the trumpet and drum sounds. They are so much fun for me and it takes me back home every time. Track was released when I was 10 years old and the translation doesn't do it justice. Poetry at its best! Wish you all a great 2019 and hope you find your idyll love with life!

  

The only thing that encourages my desires is to make you mine.

But the uncertainty i'm going through is destroying me.

Because the cruel snow from the years makes my body cold.

And I’ve exhausted my patience waiting for you.

And I’ve exhausted my patience waiting for you.

To wake you with kisses when the day’s rays come.

And that our idyll always last until night comes.

And when the aurora comes full of joy.

Your soul and my soul will be founded.

To wake you with kisses when the day’s rays come.

(The day will surprise us my heart)

And that our idyll always last until night comes.

(The night will only be ours)

And when the aurora comes full of joy

(Only you and me together)

Your soul and my soul will be founded

- Trumpet Solo -

To wake you with kisses when the day’s rays come.

And that our idyll always last until night comes.

And when the aurora comes full of joy.

Your soul and my soul will be founded.

To wake you with kisses when the day’s rays come.

(The day will surprise us my heart)

And that our idyll always last until night comes.

(The night will only be ours)

And when the aurora comes full of joy

(Only you and me together)

Your soul and my soul will be founded

Your soul and my soul will be founded!!!

Dreaming, of you, wanting our idyll to come true.

Sometimes I go into a corner.

And I stay in oblivion.

Suffering for you my love.

My heart calls you.

Dreaming, of you, wanting our idyll to come true.

And you’ll see how beautiful love is.

When you truly love someone

There are no doubts, no resentment

Only one heart that is for us both.

*****Wapea Willie Colon*****

- Trumpet Solo -

Dreaming, of you, wanting our idyll to come true.

Eeeeahh...I would wait a thousand years

If that was your condition

But time is flying

Come and calm down my passion

Dreaming, of you, wanting our idyll to come true.

And like this, very close

To feel again your soul and mine founded

In a hug

An idyll of love

Fidel Nadal Ft. I-Nesta - Todo Vuelve a Su Lugar = Everything Returns To Its Place

Some 5 plus years ago, a really good friend of mine "Boris" :-)  Well he said to translate this song and it was the very first time I heard this track and fell in love with it. Fidel Nadal is a reggae singer from Argentina and I-Nesta is from my home country of Panama. This song means so much to me and my family. My brother specially; plays this song so many times per week, but it never gets old for him. Because what this song does to the spirit is priceless. I'm just trying to spread the vibes and elevate love. Enjoy it!

I-Nesta:

All my people with their hands in the air

All my people with their hands in the air

All my people with their hands in the air

All my people with their hands in the air

When you feel like your day is fuggy and there is no way out

Don’t stop searching for the happiness that Jah gives

If you feel like the moon is your loyal companion

And because you give it all, they didn’t know your worth

And nostalgia invades you and the nights become long

And your chest wants to explode
And you don’t know if you should laugh or cry

Fidel:

This one is to get out of sadness

Don’t be bitter, we have to move the pieces right

The time has come to show your entirety

Don’t show laziness, you are royalty

Let’s go up, divine people

If you are too sad, come dance in my corner

And if you feel too much melancholy
Because the love you had left you the other day

Use your humbleness, use your sincerity

And if the loves is true it will come back

And if it doesn’t return; that's better for you

I-Nesta tell them!

I-Nesta:

Leave behind all that is bad, because is natural law

That the sun will come out again; no one can avoid it

It will come out for you and also for me

It will come out for you and also for me

Maybe when you wake up everything will be different

And what made you sad yesterday
won’t exist in your heart any more

And everything returns to its place

And the love that flew away

Inside another person will come back

Inside another person will come back

Fidel:

Take your impulse, take your trust

And before all don’t lose hope

Malaria is gone and bonanza is back

Show your essence if you have substance

Stand strong, get off your knees

The dream is over, the nightmare is over

True love, not like in chapels

It will make you feel a million wonders

You will see that you’ll stand up...uhum
and you will stop crying..uhum

You won’t have time to regret what the the past wanted to take

It's true; the night brings in a new day

More love and more happiness

It’s not a whim or a fantasy

All is fixed as I said

I-Nesta:

All my people with their hands in the air

All my people with their hands in the air

All my people with their hands in the air

All my people with their hands in the air

Leave behind all that is bad, because is natural law

That the sun will come out again; no one can avoid it

It will come out for you and also for me

It will come out for you and also for me

It will come out, it will come out... (x8)

Ruben Blades - Vida = Life

Hello internet world! :-) It has been a while since I translated anything and I'm slowly getting back to it. This one became a favorite recently. I think the lyrics are powerful and inspiring. I really love Ruben Blades and I feel this won't be the first of the last song I translate of his. Salsa is life for me and Ruben has done it better than anyone. His lyrics have a mission and my love for it tells me I must share. So here I am :-) Hope you all enjoy it!

No one chooses their family or the race they are born in.

Nor to be rich, poor, good, bad, brave or a coward.

We are born out of a choice in which we were not consulted.

And no one can promise us results.

When we are born; we don’t even know our names.

Or what our path will be, nor what our future hides.

In between baptism and burial everyone makes their way.

And with their decisions, a destiny.

We are just another card in a game someone else has started.

And everyone will bet according to the hand they’ve inherited.

Life is a door where there is no entrance fee.

And the soul is the ticket that, while living, tares up when you pay.

And every step creates a foot print, and every foot print is history.

And every yesterday is a star in the sky of memory.

And the wave of time takes and brings our contradictions.

And between comebacks and goodbyes errors scar.

And each friend is the family we choose between strangers.

And between the wait and the meeting; one learns with the years

That only to our consciousness our spirit responds

And that one thing is to be a male and another to be a man.

No one chooses their family, or their race when they are born.

Nor to be good, bad, pretty, ugly, innocent or guilty.

From birth to death our whole life is a bet.

It depends on our will to find the answers

I Dream of a different world

Where our love never ends

Where never, never, discard another’s reason

Where we never forget to help out..who??

The ones that are staying behind

I Dream of a different world

Where our love never ends

The white bones of  a dead man can be from any race.

If death doesn’t discriminate then life shouldn’t either.

I Dream of a different world

Where our love never dies

This truth is very simple, even a child knows it.

If in your life there was no rhythm, in your grave there will be no key.