Cuba Va
Pablo Milanés
Cuba Goes
We are talking about love,
We are doing it for love,
People are even killing for love
To keep working for love.
Let no one interrupt the ritual,
We want to love in peace
To say in a shout:
Cuba goes, Cuba goes!
I want to open my voice to the world
To reach the farthest corner
From north to south and from east to west.
And that any man can
Shout his own hopes,
His wounds, and his struggle
When he says:
Cuba goes!
It may be that a machete
Gets tangled in the undergrowth,
It may be that some nights
The stars don't want to come out.
It may be that with our arms
We have to open the jungle
But despite everything, somehow
Cuba goes, Cuba goes!
