Victor Jara’s Hands Lyrics
Wire fences still coiled with flowers of the night
Songs of the birds like hands call the earth to witness
Sever from fear before taking flight
Fences that fail and fall to the ground
Bearing the fruit from Jara's Hands
Me siento solo y perdido
Una vela alumbra mi camino
Cruzando tierras que nunca he visto
Cruzando el río de mi destino
Solo soy un chico mas
Que sueña en alto y mirando al mar
Fences that fail and fall to the ground
Bearing the fruit from Jara's Hands
Songs of the birds like hands call the earth to witness
Sever from fear before taking flight
Fences that fail and fall to the ground
Bearing the fruit from Jara's Hands
Me siento solo y perdido
Una vela alumbra mi camino
Cruzando tierras que nunca he visto
Cruzando el río de mi destino
Solo soy un chico mas
Que sueña en alto y mirando al mar
Fences that fail and fall to the ground
Bearing the fruit from Jara's Hands
About
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Victor Jara was a Chilean poet and singer-songwriter strongly identified with the country’s leftist politics. When a US-backed military coup toppled leftist President Salvador Allende in September 1973, Jara was one of the tens of thousands of leftists detained by the new Pinochet regime. Before his execution, his captors broke all of his fingers, then mockingly threw a guitar in front of him and asked him to play.
The second verse of the U2 song “One Tree Hill” refers to Jara.
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September 2008
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