“La Niña Que Llora En Tus Fiestas” (The Girl Who Cries at Your Parties) by La Oreja de Van Gogh, English translation

“The Girl Who Cries at Your Parties”, 2011 single
Genre: Pop with a beat, energetic, techno influence. This energetic pop song is about a girl so in love (really obsessed) that it hurts her to be away from the object of her affections.
Country: Spain

Lyrics Translation:

[Radio:]
Y los cuarenta principales, del cuarenta al uno…
And the top 40, from 40 to 1…

[Song:]
Vuela un columpio vació sobre mi cabeza,
Vuela por el cementerio de mi voluntad.
Sigo buscando la niña que llora en tus fiestas.
Suenan campanas en flor por mi funeral.

The empty swing flies over my head,
It flies over the cemetery of my willpower.
I keep looking for the girl who cries at your parties.
Ringing bell flowers sprout all over my funeral.

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“Geografía” (Geography) by La Oreja de Van Gogh, English translation

“Geography”
Album: Lo que te conté mientras te hacías la dormida (What I told you while you pretended to sleep), 2003
Genre: Pop with world/island music influence, flutes, wooden wind instruments, string instruments. Happy love song about wanting to create a world (a life) with someone.
Country: Spain

Lyrics Translation:

Me gustaría inventar un país contigo
Para que las palabras como patria o porvenir,
Bandera, nación, frontera, raza o destino
Tuvieran algún sentido para mí.

I would like to invent a country with you
So that words like native land or future,
Flag, nation, border, race or destiny
Would have some meaning for me.

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