Spanish songs translated to English with side-by-side lyrics and notes for Spanish learners
“The Sea” Lyrics
Album: Frisbee, 2002
Style: Rock
Country: Venezuela
Listen: YouTube, Amazon
Yo no soy el Mar
Que es el agua y que es la sal.
Soy tan sólo una ola que
Vino, se rompió y después se fue.
I am not the Sea
That is the water and that is the salt.
I am nothing more than a wave that
Came, broke and then left.
“Pain and Passion”
Album: Frisbee, 2002
Style: Emo rock about pain and wanting love.
Country: Venezuela
Listen: YouTube
Dolor, eres todo lo que tengo, tuve o haya tenido.
Yo te pido que no me hagas nunca más sentir dolor.
Dolor, se separa del placer por una línea delgada.
Otra velada, confrontada con la autoflagelación.
Pain, you are all I have, had, or have had.
I ask you that you never again make me feel pain.
Pain, it is separated from pleasure by a thin line.
Another evening, confronted with self-flagellation.
“The Stars” Lyrics
Album: Miss Mujerzuela (Miss Ladytart), 2000
Style: Rock love song throwing roses at a romantic partner they think highly of.
Country: Venezuela
Listen: YouTube
Yo sé que sólo he sido un vagabundo,
Un sinvergüenza, un perro inmundo,
Una bala perdida, una hoja caída.
I know that I have only been a vagabond,
A scoundrel, a filthy dog,
A stray bullet, a fallen leaf.
“Against Winds and Tides”
Songwriter: Franco De Vita. Sung by: Chayanne
Style: Pop, smooth romantic. Slow lyrics good for beginner Spanish students.
Countries: Venezuela; Puerto Rico
(Note that there are different songs with this title sung by Intocable and Los Bukis.)
No me preguntes cómo sucedió
O si sera cierto, tal vez no.
Sólo sé que ahora estoy aquí
Y no hago otra cosa que pensar en ti,
Oh, pensar en ti.
Do not ask me how it happened
Or if it may be true, perhaps not.
All I know is that I am here now
And I do not do anything else but think of you,
Oh, think of you.
“Mother Earth” (2006)
Album: Ingravitto, 2006
Style: Reggae. Earth Day is April 22.
Countries: Spain, Brazil, Venezuela, Cameroon
Listen: YouTube
Spoken:
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You can always close your eyes,
But you can’t close your ears.
Hay una cuestión de, yo diría,
Cómo es, de amor a la tierra, ¿no?
Es decir que somos parte de las raices de donde nacemos.
Entonces pensando en esto se nos ocurre una canción.
There is an issue of, I would say,
How is it, of love for the earth, no?
That is to say that we are part of the roots of where we are born.
So then thinking about this a song occurs to us.
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