Spanish song lyrics translated to English: side-by-side lyrics, song meanings, and translation notes for people learning Spanish.
“Simply Friends”
Album: SEIS (Six), 2021
Genre: Mariachi about a lovestruck person wanting to know if their crush is interested in a relationship, or if they will stay simply friends.
Countries: Chile, Mexico
Oye, dame una señal,
La posibilidad de hacerlo a mi modo.
Dale, no seas cohibido,
Quiero algo contigo,
Más que ser amigos.
Hey, give me a sign,
The possibility of doing things my way.
Come on, don’t be shy,
I want something with you,
More than being friends.
“I Will Wait For You”
Genre: Pasillo, vals (waltz), unrequited love song.
Country: Ecuador
Listen: YouTube, Amazon
Te esperaré.
Sé que me quieres
Y yo seré tu adoración.
En mi recuerdo, grabado estará tu nombre.
Toda la vida, te esperaré y serás mi gran amor.
“The Woman”
Album: Seis (Six), 2021
Genre: A gloriously dramatic bolero breakup song. The dramatic but energetic style makes the lyrics imagery clearly figurative, not literal, but possibly this needs a trigger warning for suicide/murder/drugs. Just in case!
Countries: Chile; Mexico
Listen: YouTube, Amazon
“The White Horse”
Genre: Corrido about a white horse, but it’s really about a road trip all over Mexico on a car (romanticized as a horse).
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube, Amazon
This song is about a road trip [es] that José Alfredo Jiménez took from Guadalajara (in central Mexico) to Baja California (just south of the United States southwest) on a white 1957 Chrysler. It is a good song to teach Mexican geography, since he mentions the places he passes on his journey.
Este es el corrido del caballo blanco,
Que en un día domingo feliz arrancara. *
Iba con la mira de llegar al norte, *
Habiendo salido de Guadalajara.
This is the narrative of the white horse,
That on a Sunday, happily took off. *
He went with the goal of reaching the north, *
Having left from Guadalajara.
“First Day”
Album: Limon y Sal (Lemon and Salt), 2006
Genre: Pop, love song, possibly breakup song, possibly the start of a new relationship though it sounds like one person wants it more than the other.
Country: Mexico
“Yours and Mine”
Album: Mis Manos (Mi Hands), 2021
Genre: A romantic Norteña (a North Mexican music style)
Countries: Colombia (Camilo), Mexico (Los Dos Carnales)
“I Want To See You Happy”, 2021 single
Countries: USA (California), Mexico
Genre: Cumbia about being ready to be happy again despite all the bad things happening in the world.
Listen: YouTube, Amazon
No es que me valga madre la vida,
El dolor de la gente, el frío, y el hambre.
La angustia está presente.
El odio se siente, el ambiente se pone caliente.
It’s not that I don’t give a damn about life,
People’s pain, the cold, and hunger.
The anguish is there.
The hate is palpable, the environment heats up.
Hello! You have reached the end of new posts for songlations.com and the missing middle section of 2011-2017. Everything after this post is from the old blog (songlations.livejournal.com). I am slowly migrating translations from oldest-to-newest starting with 2007. A few songs or artists were moved earlier.
I only transfer a few songs per month so that I can focus on new translations. I have 316 songs from the old site.
I am around here right now: https://songlations.livejournal.com/2011/07/
Updates, count moved from LJ to Songlations.com:
July 2026: 204/316 = 64.6%
Nov 2025: 194/316 = 61.4%
June 2025: 177/316 = 56.0%
Dec 2024: 166/316 = 52.3%
“Four Paths”
Genre: Ranchera, mariachi, forsaken love song. A song about picking your life path when you feel lost. The cuatro caminos refers to the four cardinal directions.
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube, Amazon
Es imposible que yo te olvide.
Es imposible que yo me vaya.
Por donde quiera que voy te miro.
Ando con otra y por ti suspiro.
It is impossible for me to forget you.
It is impossible for me to leave.
Because wherever I go, I see you.
I am with another and I sigh for you.
“May Things Go Beautifully For You”
Genre: Sorrowful mariachi love song. This is a post-breakup song, with the narrator wishing his former lover nothing but good things. It sounds like he ended the relationship due to outside circumstances.
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube, Amazon. The song was also used for a 1978 Mexican film, but there is little information available online.
Ojalá que te vaya bonito.
Ojalá que se acaben tus penas,
Que te digan que yo ya no existo,
Y conozcas personas más buenas...
I hope that things go beautifully for you.
I hope that your sorrows end,
That they tell you that I no longer exist,
And that you meet better people…
“The Only One” Lyrics
Album: Un Día Normal (A Normal Day), 2002
Genre: Rock, love song, sweet. Juanes sings about his irreplaceable, incomparable lover. It is a sweet love song from an old album.
Country: Colombia
Yo te quiero a ti.
Yo no quiero a nadie más.
Porque eres tú la que me hace suspirar.
I love you. [*querer (verb) = to love; to want]
I want no one else.
Because it is you who makes me sigh.
“In the Darkness”
Album: Catarsis (Catharsis), 2013
Genre: Club, techno
Country: Spain (born), Mexico (raised)
Listen: YouTube, Amazon. Tomorrow is the winter solstice, so here is a club song that mentions being in darkness a lot. The song is about addiction to love, superficially, but also about addiction to drugs. People walk on walls in the music video, and the police come in the end. Don’t mess up your biochemistry, people. The song is energetic, though.
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