Spanish song lyrics translated to English: side-by-side lyrics, song meanings, and translation notes for people learning Spanish.
“Embrace Me” (“Hug Me”) Lyrics
Album: Abrázame (Embrace Me), 2025
Style: Alternative/indie love song for a shaky relationship, declaring love and asking forgiveness. Slow lyrics, well enunciated.
Country: Mexico
Abrázame
Como hace la luz del sol,
Llenándome de calor
Si el frío me hace mal.
Embrace me
Like the sunlight does,
Filling me with warmth
If the cold does me wrong.
“Brown Eyes” Lyrics
Album: Eva, 2023
About: Pop song about a new relationship that seems perfect, but the singer can’t commit because he is not over his ex.
Country: Venezuela
Listen: YouTube
Es la primera vez
Que invito a alguien desde que te fuiste
Y estoy bien.
It’s the first time
That I ask someone out since you left
And I’m fine.
“I Am Not For You”
Album: 1940 Carmen, 2021
Style: Rock song about a relationship ending due to a loss of feelings from shared sadness (possibly infertility), and breaking up so they can find happiness somewhere else.
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube
¿Cuánto amor desaparecerá?
¿Cuánto tiempo más tendremos que llorar?
Mejor que acabe aquí, mejor dejarte ir.
Si nos queremos tanto, ¿para qué sufrir?
How much love will disappear?
How much more time will we need to cry?
Better to end it here, better to let you go.
If we love each other so much, why suffer?
“Your Failure to Love”
Album: Mon Laferte Vol. 1, 2015
Genre: Latin rock about a devastated woman wondering “why?” after a breakup.
Country: Chile
Hoy volví a dormir en nuestra cama
Y todo sigue igual.
El aire y nuestros gatos, nada cambiará.
Difícil olvidarte estando aquí, oh, oh, oh.
Today I went back to sleep in our bed
And everything remains the same.
The air and our cats, nothing will change.
It’s difficult to forget you being here, oh, oh, oh.
“Hands in the Air” (2009)
Album: Mi Plan (My Plan)
Genre: Pop, about defenselessness, relationship trouble, and not wanting to fight. Beautiful voice, but the song is sad. Don’t put your hands in the air in defeat! Nooo.
Country: Canada, Portuguese background
By the way, I want to point out that Nelly Furtado was first famous in English media (she sung light pop “I’m Like a Bird” and R&B “Promiscuous”). It is not often that English singers expand to the Spanish market, so this is interesting. This song was released as a single before re-release in the album.
Tú, que pierdes el control
Hablando en alta voz,
Hieres mi corazón.
You, who lose control,
Speaking with a raised voice,
Wound my heart.
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