Spanish songs translated to English with side-by-side lyrics and notes for Spanish learners
“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.
“Flowers” Lyrics
Album: Vendrán Suaves Lluvias (Soft Rain Will Come), 2025
Style: Alternative/indie pop, slow soft pop. Bittersweet farewell song from a girl who was The Other Woman, understanding that the relationship was not serious for the one she loved, and that she was merely a soul passing briefly through their life.
Country: Mexico
Ya no puedo más con esta espera,
Viviendo a la sombra de otro amor.
Si yo para ti soy un problema,
Si escondes a la luna, no brilla el sol.
I can’t anymore, with this waiting,
Living in the shadow of another love.
If I, for you, am a problem,
If you hide the moon, the sun won’t shine.
“Ask me for the moon”, 1993
About: Tejano romantica. Love song dedicated to a life partner or long-term sweetheart on the way to becoming a life partner.
Country: USA (Texas)
Listen: YouTube
Las horas más lindas,
Las paso contigo, sí.
No quiero ni pensar si un día me faltas tú,
No quiero ni pensarlo, amor.
The most beautiful hours,
I pass them with you, yes.
I don’t even want to think about a day when you’re gone,
I don’t even want to think about it, my love.
“Eyes of Night”
Album: Eres Diamante (You’re A Diamond), 2017
Style: Bittersweet pop song about a girl who fell in love and got ghosted.
Country: Colombia; Mexico; USA
Listen: YouTube
Él siempre me recogía
Con su mirada de amante
Y me llevaba a lugares
Que yo no conocía
Cuando me recogía.
He always picked me up
With his gaze of a lover
And he took me to places
That I didn’t know
When he picked me up.
“It Is My Pleasure“
Style: Regional Mexican, mariachi love song of the 20th century. The lyrics declare that love is a pleasure that none but God can take away. Sung by many including Antonio Aguilar, Vicente Fernández, and more.
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube
Mi gusto es,
¿Y quién me lo quitará?
Solamente Dios del cielo me lo quita.
Mi gusto es...
It is my pleasure,
And who will take it from me?
Only God in Heaven could take it.
It is my pleasure…
“Golden Times”
Album: Tiempos Dorados (Golden Times), 2025
Style: Nostalgic pop, reflective and sensual song.
Country: Mexico
Que vuelvan los tiempos dorados,
Los dulces futuros que tanto soñamos,
Que vuelva el misterio y el aburrimiento,
El no saber nada, el no saber nada.
Let them return, the golden times,
The sweet futures that we so dreamed of,
Let them return, the mystery and the boredom,
The not knowing anything, the not knowing anything.
“Morphine”
Album: Morfina (Morphine), 2025
Style: Alternative, indie. Introspective song about love and life. Per the artist, this song explores “el amor como una fuerza sanadora, casi medicinal” (love as a healing force, almost medicinal). The song is about how genuine connection can help overcome pain and insecurity. The music video shows a couple’s life from the start of their romance to their lives’ natural ends.
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube
No es real, yo pensar,
Que amar limitaba hasta ahí.
No volaba sin ti.
It isn’t real, I thought,
That loving stopped just before that.
I couldn’t fly without you.
“Ghosts”
Album: fantasmas (ghosts), 2023
About: Soft melancholy pop with mariachi and folk elements. A song of nostalgia, grief, and pain that pulls into the abyss. A serenade to saudade. Trigger warning for dark thoughts of wanting to join the ghosts.
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube
Del gran sueño
No me quiero despertar,
Y me falla
Un poco más mi realidad.
From this great dream,
I don’t want to wake,
And it fails me
A bit more, my reality.
“Beloved Earth”
Album: Tierra Querida (Beloved Earth), 2022
Style: Soft acoustic pop. Natalia Lafourcade sings about love for her homeland’s natural beauty, and gratitude for everything she has received from the land.
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube
Tierra querida que tanto me has regalado,
De la mañana tus besos, mi dulce aliento,
He respirado tus aires y tu nostalgia,
He saboreado las aguas de tu rocío.
Beloved earth that has gifted me so much,
From morning, your kisses, (and) my sweet breath,
I have inhaled your airs and your nostalgia,
I have savored the waters of your dew.
“Everything Happens” Lyrics Translation
Album: Amor Supremo (Supreme Love), 2015
Style: Pop/rock/emo with soft vocals. Melancholy love song to oneself about the struggle with depression, and about feeling awful when you think you should feel fine. It is a very personal song from Carla Morrison, and ultimately a hopeful song about wanting to fight through the darkness instead of giving up.
Country: USA (Arizona); Mexico
Listen: YouTube
Mi vista es distinta,
Es muy triste y contamina.
Quiero dejar de creer,
Estarme sola y no ver.
My sight is different,
It is so sad and contaminated.
I want to stop believing,
To be alone and not see.
“Stop Insisting, Heart” Lyrics
Album: Juan Gabriel con Mariachi Vol. II (1976); Vicente Fernandez (1978)
Style: Mariachi serenade asking either for love to be reciprocated, or for one’s heart to stop feeling unrequited love. The song is directed at both the love interest and at one’s own heart. Composed by Alberto Aguilera Valadez.
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube
Quiere el corazón, lo quieras como yo te quiero,
No seas cruel, no hagas más grande este sufrimiento,
Él para quererte solo está latiendo,
Quiérelo tan solo un poco, te lo está pidiendo.
The heart wants, for you to love it as I love you,
Don’t be cruel, don’t extend this suffering,
My heart, to love you, only needs a pulse,
Love it just a bit, it is pleading to you.
“My Only Love” Lyrics
Album: Sin Pecado (Without Sin), 1996
Style: Cumbia, dance, love song about wanting to be together with your one special person, your only love, your true love.
Country: Mexico, Argentina
Listen: YouTube
Bueno —
Nos vamos con música, vengan ya,
A ver, las manos arriba y aplaudiendo todos, venga,
¡Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
¡Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
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