Name: Hay que huir
Duration: 3 min 8 s
Channel: Tom Hinkle
Description: Free MP3 download! Licensing options are available for this track. Esta canción habla de un ingleshablante que quiere huir al mundo hispanohablante como manera de huir de si mismo (pero claro, esto nunca funciona). Empieza con un eco de un poema de Pablo Neruda ('Walking Around')

Hay que huir

Tom Hinkle

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Esta canción habla de un ingleshablante que quiere huir al mundo hispanohablante como manera de huir de si mismo (pero claro, esto nunca funciona). Empieza con un eco de un poema de Pablo Neruda ('Walking Around')

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Tom Hinkle

Blues-influenced songster, churning out songs never-before heard about food, love, work, teaching Spanish, and more.

In an effort to get my music out into the world and to hone my writing practice, I'm starting a Song-A-Week project I'll attempt to release one brand new song per week for a year, starting today, Sunday, May 14th, 2006, and continuing through Sunday, May 13, 2007. Traditionally I, like most people, have written about love and sex — attraction, frustration, satisfaction, the works. As evidenced by the first song in my new series (about a job interview for a lame job), I'm trying to break out of this mold a bit more with my new series of songs... that said, I remain ever myself, and surely there will be more songs about love and whatnot.

Song Info

Genre

Beats • Reggaeton

Charts

#126,254 today Peak #2,906

#3,601 in subgenre Peak #82

Author

Tom Hinkle

Rights

Tom Hinkle, 2006

Uploaded

November 11, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.9 MB • 128 kbps • 3:08

Story behind the song

This song is about the need to travel in order to get away from yourself, and the way that fails.
In particular, it's about how we use language to do that (because speaking a separate language one is no longer quite one's self).
The song begins with an echo of Neruda's "Walking Around" (A veces sucede que me canso de ser hombre) -- it seems appropriate that when I cross languages to write in Spanish I reference a Spanish poem whose title is in English.

Lyrics

Sucede que a veces me canso de
ser hombre y tengo que
a veces tengo que ir

Y no es que no me gustes
Tampoco sea otra mujer
Sólo es que a veces hay que huir

No me importa para donde 
solo que no hablen inglés
Que cuando hablo español
logro ser otro

Y otro es lo que todos queremos ser
Así seguimos deseando ser
lo que nunca seremos

Ya sé que cuando llegue encontraré
este mismo no sé que
esta misma tristeza

Y si allá encuentro otra será que se sentía sola
Que solos todos somos y seremos

Y puesto que así me canso
No hay por qué seguir buscando
Sólo es que a veces tengo que ir

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