Spanish songs translated to English with side-by-side lyrics and notes for Spanish learners
“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.
“Solitude and the Sea” Lyrics
Album: Musas (Muses), 2017
Style: Folk sentimental romantic, bolero song about being alone with the sea, feeling lonely but also relaxed, enjoying the ocean air. The music rises and falls like the waves.
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube
[Intro dialogue:]
¿Otra? ¿Nos echamos otra?
Another? Should we do another?
[Lyrics:]
En el canto de las olas,
Encontré un rumor de luz.
Por un canto de gaviotas
Supe que allí estabas tú.
In the song of the waves,
I found the rumor of a light.
By the cry of the seagulls
I knew you were there.
“Photograph”
Album: Un Día Normal (A Normal Day), 2002
Style: Soft rock, nostalgic, about long-distance love whether romantic or platonic. The love is there but they have a hard time getting in touch, so they look at photographs instead.
Country: Colombia (Juanes), Canada (Nelly Furtado)
Listen: YouTube
Cada vez que yo me voy,
Llevo a un lado de mi piel
Tus fotografías para verlas cada vez
Que tú ausencia me devora entero el corazón
Y yo no tengo remedio más que amarte.
Every time that I leave,
I carry by my skin [*lit. I carry to the side of my skin]
Your photographs, to see them every time
That your absence eats my heart whole
And I have no other choice but to love you.
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