Spanish songs translated to English with side-by-side lyrics and notes for Spanish learners
“Ice and Fire”
Style: Merengue, pop dance song about a hot/cold relationship.
Country: Puerto Rico
Listen: YouTube
Hay un sorbo de tus besos
En el vino que me embriaga.
Hay un soplo de tu aliento
Cuando escucho tus palabras.
There’s a whiff of your kisses
In the wine that intoxicates me.
There’s a gust of your scent
When I listen to your words.
“It Has Not Stopped Raining”
Albums: No ha parado de llover (It has not stopped raining), 1995; Maná MTV Unplugged, 1999
Style: Rock, melancholy
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube
Desde que te perdí
La luz se ha puesto muy mojada.
Mirada triste esta nublada
Y en mis ojos no ha parado de llover.
Since I lost you
The light has become very watery.
Sad gaze, this cloudyness
And in my eyes, it has not stopped raining.
“Without the Moon”
Artist: Alejandro Filio. Also sung by: Tania Libertad
Style: Hauntingly beautiful love song. Melancholy guitar instrumentals.
Country: Mexico; Peru
Listen at YouTube: Alejandro Filio live, Tania Libertad recorded
Si repito tu nombre
Después de otra jornada
Y otra noche conmigo…
If I repeat your name
After another journey
And another night with me…
“The King Shark” Lyrics
Album: Amar es Combatir (To Love is to Battle), 2006
Style: Chacha dance and Latin rock about the king shark. This song was the opening for a Mexican telenovela, Yo amo a Juan Querendón (“I love Juan Querendón”).
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube
Todos me llaman el pez Tiburón,
El rey de los mares salados.
Todos me llaman el pez Tiburón,
El rey, el amante dotado.
Everyone calls me the Shark fish,
The king of the salted seas.
Everyone calls me the Shark fish,
The king, the gifted lover.
“Ay, Doctor” Lyrics
Album: Revolución de Amor (Revolution of Love), 2002
Style: Latin rock about heartbreak and wanting a heartbreak doctor.
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube (Maná official video). There’s also a fan music video with costumes and reenactments and everything.
Me ha envenenado,
Con sus labios, con sus besos.
Alucinado, loco por su desamor.
She has poisoned me,
With her lips, with her kisses.
Hallucinated, crazy for her unlove.
“Bare Feet, White Dreams” Lyrics
Album: Pies Descalzos, Sueños Blancos (1996)
Style: Rock ballad, mix of rebellious and biblical overtones, old Shakira before her move to pop music
Country: Colombia
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