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Mauricio Callejas in Austin on 09/25/10

El dia que aprendiste a soñar

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(Scroll down for English) Esta es una de las ultimas canciones que he escrito. Ha estado en un papel garabateado por varios meses y esta es la primera vez que toma vida digital. Es una canción con doble intención, la primera es para cantarle a mi hijo al que le debía su canción por varios años y al verlo crecer me ha inspirado a escribirle esto. La segunda se las dejo de tarea. A ver que les parece.

El dia que aprendiste a soñar

Se abrieron los almanaques
y llenaron el estanque de agua bautismal
Cantaron los ruiseñores
Se arrastraron caracoles hacia la ciudad

Declaré mi día feriado
Y encerraron con candado al cuervo del dolor
Se subieron las banderas
Limpiaron las carreteras, se prohibió decir no

Y se creo la solución
Hiciste al sol brillar
El día que aprendiste a soñar

Bailaron los alquimistas
Y cantaron los artistas locos de pasión
Encontraste un silabario
Se vaciaron los armarios, se encendió el reloj

Resolviste el crucigrama
De quien vive de la cama al auto de sol a sol
Y a vos te salieron alas
Que dejaron en la grama plumas del adios

Y se creo la solución
Hiciste al sol brillar
El día que aprendiste a soñar


* Rough translation * This is one of my most recent songs, this is actually the first time that I transcribe it to the computer. It has been sitting in my paper notebook for a while. This is a double aimed song, first I wrote it for my son to who I owed his own song for years and now that I see him growing up, it inspired me to write this lyrics, the second reason is … I’d better let you figure it out. Let me know what you think.

The day you learned to dream

The almanacs were opened
And the pool was filled with baptismal water
The nightingales sang
and snails crawled towards the city

I declared my new holiday
And the crow of pain was locked out
Flags rose,
Streets got cleaned and prohibited was to say No

The solution was created
You made the sun shine
The day you learned to dream

The alchemists danced
Out of passion the artists sang
You found a phonics book
The closets were emptied and the clock woke up

You solved the puzzle
about who lives between the bed and the car
And you got your own wings
and dropped goodbyes of feathers on the grass

The solution was created
You made the sun shine
The day you learned to dream

Mauricio Callejas’ Band at Momo’s 09/21/10

Melancholic Song seeks lyrics that like to dance

The Old Havana

– Note: Although I would like you to read the story first and then play the music, I am including a link to the music here Here 

About 10 years ago, I wrote a prose that after all this time came back to me by itself. I was dreaming a few days ago, like every night, and it appeared in the middle of my dream without a reason, like a TV commercial, and reminded me of that text that I titled “The scent of Havana”

After the dream, the idea of writing a song about the Havana subject, which is now a pre-teen at its 10 years of age, was planted in my head. I had to put some Caribbean music on those unstructured ideas and make them dance.

I did not dislike the task at all, on the contrary, the only problem was to find a time to make those sensations, now 10 years old, somehow return to my senses. As if it were so easy to put the sensations in the freezer to use them at some point in the future! No, I had to close my eyes, immerse myself in the heat of the memories for about a couple of hours and bring them back. This is not particularly easy when you’re at work.

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