A soulful song about nostalgia for the past adolescence. The delicacy and beauty of Susana Baca s voice makes her one of today s most popular Latin American singers. She is renowned as an interpreter of contemporary Afro-Peruvian music, the intimate lando and samba rhythms of her country. Here she sings the love lyrics of Latin Americas greatest 20th century poet: Chilean Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda. This theme is taken from the Lamento Negro album (Tumi 104), which won Latin Grammy.
If I love you it is because you are my love, my accomplice and everything, and in the street elbow to elbow we are many more than two, we are many more than two. Your hands are my caress, my daily chords. I love you because your hands work for justice. If I love you it is because you are my love, my accomplice and everything, and in the street elbow to elbow we are many more than two, we are many more than two. Your eyes are my spell, against the bad day, I love you for your look, that looks and sows the future. Your mouth that is yours and mine, your mouth is not wrong, I love you because your mouth knows how to shout rebellion. If I love you it is because you are my love, my accomplice and everything. and in the street elbow to elbow we are many more than two, we are many more than two. And for your sincere face and your vagabond step, and your crying for the world, because you are people I love you, and because love is not a halo or a candid moral, and because we are a couple that knows it is not alone. I want you in my paradise and that means that in my country people live happily, even if they don't have permission. If I love you it's because you are my love, my accomplice and everything, and on the street elbow to elbow we are many more than two, and on the street elbow to elbow we are much more than two.
Si te quiero es porque eres
mi amor, mi cómplice y todo,
y en la calle codo a codo
somos muchos más que dos,
somos muchos más que dos.
Tus manos son mi caricia,
mis acordes cotidianos.
Te quiero porque tus manos
trabajan por la justicia.
Si te quiero es porque eres
mi amor, mi cómplice y todo,
y en la calle codo a codo
somos muchos más que dos,
somos muchos más que dos.
Tus ojos son mi conjuro,
contra la mala jornada,
te quiero por tu mirada,
que mira y siembra futuro.
Tu boca que es tuya y mía,
tu boca no se equivoca,
te quiero porque tu boca
sabe gritar rebeldía.
Si te quiero es porque eres
mi amor, mi cómplice y todo.
y en la calle codo a codo
somos muchos más que dos,
somos muchos más que dos.
Y por tu rostro sincero
y tu paso vagabundo,
y tu llanto por el mundo,
porque eres pueblo te quiero,
y porque amor no es aureola
ni cándida moraleja,
y porque somos pareja
que sabe que no está sola.
Te quiero en mi paraíso
y es decir que en mi país
la gente viva feliz,
aunque no tenga permiso.
Si te quiero es porque eres
mi amor, mi cómplice y todo,
y en la calle codo a codo
somos muchos más que dos,
y en la calle codo a codo
somos mucho más que dos.