Willie Colón

Oh Que Sera → English translation

Translation

Spanish (Original)

Oh, what might it be?

Click to see the original lyrics (Spanish)

(Spoken) I believe in many things that I haven't seen

And so do you, I know

You can't deny the existance of something that has been felt

... As ethereal as it may be.

There is no need to demonstrate a proof of decency

Of something that is so true.

The only sign is to believe, or not.

Even believing while crying, sometimes.

This is about an incomplete song, because it lacks an answer;

An answer that perhaps one of you can give.

It's a song in technicolor to make something useful out of love

For all of us, Amen.

Oh, what might it be, what might it be?

That which keeps on sighing through the bedrooms

That is heard whispering in verses of ballads

That keeps on mixing us in insane questions

That dwells on the minds, dwells on the mouths

That keeps on ascending in many flights

That which is talked about high on the wine cellars

And screams in the marketplaces, What is that thing?

Is it nature, what might it be?

That has no certainty, and never gives certainty

That has no concept, and will never have

That has no size

Oh, what might it be, what might it be?

That lives in the ideas of those lovers

That is sung by the most delirious of poets

And sworn by the drunken prophets

It's on the pilgrimage of the mutilated

It's on the fantasy of the miserable ones

It's on the daily life of the harlots

And of all the bandits and defenseless

In all of its senses, what might it be?

That has no decency, and will never have

That has no censorship, and will never have

That does not lack sense

Oh, what might it be, what might it be?

That no warning sign will ever prevent

That no kisses, as well, can ever defy

That which all paths must go through

Where all signs will go to be anointed

And all the little children will go to investigate

And where all the fates will find

And even the Eternal Father, who never went there