Silvio Rodríguez - Sueño Con Serpientes

The song, with a surreal atmosphere, describes a nightmare that would be the metaphor of an obsession ( I kill it and a bigger one appears/with much more hell in digestion ).

Sueño Con Serpientes (I Dream of Snakes)

"There are men who fight for a day and are good.
There are others who fight for a year and are better.
There are those who fight for many years and are very good.
But there are those who fight all their lives.
Those are the indispensable ones."
Bertolt Brecht

I dream of snakes, of sea snakes
Of a certain sea, oh, I dream of snakes
Long, transparent, and in their bellies they carry
What they can snatch from love

Oh-oh-oh
I kill her and a bigger one appears
Oh-oh-oh-oh
With much more hell in digestion

I don't fit in her mouth, she tries to swallow me
But she gets stuck with a clover from my temple
I think she's crazy, I give her a dove to chew
and I poison her with my goodness

Oh-oh-oh
I kill her and a bigger one appears
Oh-oh-oh-oh
With much more hell in digestion

This one, at last, swallows me, and while I walk through its esophagus
I'm thinking about what will come
But it is destroyed when I reach its stomach, and I propose
With a verse, a truth

Oh-oh-oh
I kill her and a bigger one appears
Oh-oh-oh-oh
With much more hell in digestion

Oh-oh-oh
I kill her and a bigger one appears
Oh-oh