Spanish songs translated to English with side-by-side lyrics and notes for Spanish learners
“Pretty Woman”
Album: Más Futuro Que Pasado (More Future Than Past), 2019
Style: Pop love song about falling in love by accident after meeting a girl at a party. Lots of references to Colombian culture.
Country: Colombia
Listen: YouTube
No quería enamorarme
Y me fui de fiesta con mis amigos,
No pensé que encontrarte era mi destino.
I didn’t want to fall in love
And I went partying with my friends,
Didn’t think that finding you was my destiny.
“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.
“What Will Become of Me” Lyrics
Album: Epicentro (Epicenter), 2021
Style: Soft pop song about a being in a turbulent and hot/cold relationship with a bad boy. She loves him but he ignores her and that makes her mad.
Country: Spain
Listen: YouTube
Jugamos a dejar las cosas claras,
No fue suficiente.
Ven y mírame de frente.
No despiertes a la fiera.
We played at making things clear,
It wasn’t enough.
Come and see me face to face.
Don’t wake up in a foul mood.
Dejémonos de hablar de forma rara,
No sé lo que sientes.
Yo sé que siempre fuiste un delincuente
Y aunque me digas que no soy cualquiera,
Me quema.
“I’ll See You At the Exit” Lyrics
Album: Puro Teatro (Pure Theater), 2020
Style: 1980s-style pop/rock about a forbidden or unconventional relationship. The singer wants to end the secrecy and come out into the open.
Country: Argentina
Listen: YouTube
No, ya no quiero soñar con tu sombra
Y tener que olvidarla de día.
Sé que es difícil, lo sé,
Que hay peligro también,
Que es historia prohibida.
No, I don’t want to dream of your shadow
And have to forget it by day.
I know it is difficult, I know,
That there’s danger also,
That it is a forbidden story.
“Look at Me” Lyrics Translated
Album: Mírame (Look at Me), 2024
Style: Catchy pop dance song about how they’re doing well after a breakup. Look at them and how they thrive!
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube
Seguramente te enteraste (¿de qué?)
De que ando terroreando duro (¿por qué?)
Ya me mandaste otro mensaje (ya ves)
Tú sufres porque yo no sufro (otra vez)
Surely you’ve heard (of what?)
That I’m going aggressively hard (why?)
You already sent me another message (you see)
You suffer because I don’t (once again)
“Chaotic Beauty” Lyrics
Album: Caótica Belleza (Chaotic Beauty), 2015
Style: Alternative pop. A love song to the beauty of nature and rural landscapes, and their chaotic charm.
Countries: Colombia, Mexico
Listen: YouTube
Un lugar para estar
Y vivir lo que se hereda,
Una canción sin condición
Para sonar lo que nos queda.
A place to be
And live what one inherits,
A song without condition
To sound out what we have left.
“The Moving In of an Ant” Lyrics Translation
Album: Alquimia (Alchemy), 2022
Style: Pop, love song of a blossoming relationship that starts to solidify into a life partnership. It is about the slow migration of personal items as they slowly move in together.
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube
¡Ja! Vas, leoncita (ja, ja, ja, ja)
¡Guaar! (Arre)
Ha! Go, lil lioness (ha ha ha ha)
Rawr! (Yeah)
Te dejo aquí en un rinconcito mi cepillo.
Entre tus cosas mi vestido amarillo,
Un par de tenis para caminar juntitos, por si se ofrece.
(Dale, Glo)
I leave you here in a little corner, my toothbrush.
Between your things, my yellow dress,
A pair of tennis shoes to walk together, in case one offers.
(Go, Glo)
Puede que exista un lugarcito ahí en tu casa
Para mis letras, mi guitarra y mi pijama.
Por si dormimos esta noche ahí en tu cama
Por si se ofrece. (¡Ah!)
There could exist a little space in you home
For my letters, my guitar, and my pajama.
In case we sleep tonight in your bed,
In case one offers. (Ah!)
“Of All the Flowers” Lyrics Translation
Album: De Todas Las Flores (Of All the Flowers), 2022
Style: Jazzy, folk, piano and string. Song reminiscing about a happy romance that ended.
Country: Mexico
Listen: YouTube
De todas las flores que sembramos
Solo quedan unas encendidas.
Cada mañana se preguntan
Cuándo llegarás para cantarles.
Of all the flowers that we sowed
Only a few remain aflare.
Every morning they ask themselves
When will you come to sing to them.
“A Good Life” Lyrics Translation
Album: Una Vida Buena (A Good Life), 2023
Style: Pop/rock. Aspirational song about wanting to leave a bad marriage and live a good life, without the awfulness of current life.
Country: Puerto Rico
Listen: YouTube
Me desperté cansada,
Cansada de vivir en una vida que no me da nada.
Tan triste, aburrida, deprimida, pero con más ganas
De hacer una maleta y mandar todo pa’ la chingada.
I woke up tired,
Tired of living in a life that gives me nothing.
So sad, tired, depressed, but with a stronger urge
To pack a bag and leave everything to hell.
“There Will Be No One in the World” Lyrics
Album: Niña de Fuego (Girl of Fire), 2008. Nominated for “Album of the Year” in the 2008 Latin Grammy Awards.
Style: Pop, jazz, tropical music. Song about a heartbreak.
Country: Spain
Listen: YouTube
Desde que el agua es libre,
Libre entre manantiales vive.
Jazmines han llora’o y yo no comprendo
Cómo en tus ojos, niña, solo hay desierto.
Since the water was free,
Free among running springs, it lives.
Jasmines have cried and and I don’t understand
How in your eyes, girl, there is only a desert.
“You Don’t Owe Me, Nor I You”
Album: Comillo De Leche (Milk Fang), 2023
Style: Northern Mexican regional pop about a mutual breakup. Sad but accepting and not angry.
Country: Mexico, Colombia
Listen: YouTube
Tengo que irme porque me siento muy triste,
Aquí no hay nada, esta historia se acabó.
I have to leave because I feel so sad,
There is nothing here, this story has ended.
Te dejo libre,
Fuiste tú la que perdiste.
No es tan sencillo encontrarse
Un gran amor.
I leave you free,
It was you who lost.
It isn’t so easy to find oneself
A great love.
“Inward” Lyrics
Album: El Renacimiento (The Rebirth), 2022
Style: R&B. Carla sings about confronting her depression and being honest with herself, and her journey to find her way out of darkness. I wish her the best!
Country: Mexico, USA (Arizona)
Listen: YouTube
Desperté un día sin sentir
Ganas de querer seguir.
Algo ya me hundía en mi cama.
I woke up one day without feeling
Desire to want to continue.
Something had already sunk me into bed.
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