Jorge Drexler - Frontera

Now it's the time for one of the greatest Latinamerican songwriters. Jorge Drexler (Montevideo, 1964), Medical Doctor but also musician, published his fifth album in 1999, "Frontera". Personally, his next album "Sea", is one of my all-time favourites, but I want to show you this song who talks about borders, citizenships and the non-sense of flags.


Here is the song "Frontera" from his eponymous first album



More of Jorge Drexler : http://www.jorgedrexler.com/

Letras

Yo no sé de dónde soy,
mi casa está en la frontera

Y las fronteras se mueven,
como las banderas.

Mi patria es un rinconcito,
el canto de una cigarra.

Los dos primeros acordes
que yo supe en la guitarra

Soy hijo de un forastero
y de una estrella del alba,
y si hay amor, me dijeron,
y si hay amor, me dijeron,
toda distancia se salva.

No tengo muchas verdades,
prefiero no dar consejos.

Cada cual por su camino,
igual va a aprender de viejo.

Que el mundo está como está
por causa de las certezas

La guerra y la vanidad
comen en la misma mesa

Soy hijo de un desterrado
y de una flor de la tierra,
y de chico me enseñaron
las pocas cosas que sé
del amor y de la guerra.

Lyrics

I do not know where I am,
my house is on the border

And the borders are moved,
as the flags.

My homeland is a little corner,
the song of a cicada.

The first two chords
I learned on guitar

I am the son of a stranger
and a star of dawn,
and if there is love, I said,
and if there is love, I said,
all the distance is covered.

I don't have many truths,
I prefer not to give advice.

Everyone to his own way,
the same is learnt when old.

The world is as it is
because of the certainty

War and vanity
eat at the same table

I am the son of an exiled
and a flower on earth,
and being boy I was taught
the few things I know
about love and war.