A mi me gusta la versión de Alexis y Fido

Sabor de engaño tienen tus ojos cuando me miran
Sabor de engaño siento en tus labios cuando me besan
No eres sincera cuando me dices que aún me quieres
Y en tus palabras se nota el filo de la traición.

Es imposible seguir fingiendo de esta manera
Yo te agradesco con toda el alma tu noble empeño
Y te prometo sentirme fuerte cuando me digas
Que no me amas Que es para otro tu corazon.

I like to sing this in the shower. (I'll spare you the recording) its a lovely song but i particularly like it because i had a bit of a subjunctive epiphany back when i was learning the words.  (and indeed, the subjunctive)

I tend to translate songs im learning into english first, so that im not just parroting words that i dont understand, and towards the end of the song, I got a bit lost so I had to mentally reconstruct the spanish lyric from my english translation. Well Stap mi vitals, I got it right. I was so pleased with myself as i truly felt the penny drop.

Its the only cuando in the song that takes the subjunctive so I could have been forgiven for singing cuando me dices (i've already sung it once) but the fact is that this time round, she hasnt told him yet. He knows its coming and is preparing himself for the news but the action of telling is not "actual", its still in the future, it may not happen. (tchyeah right, he's toast)

The other cuandos all speak of the present/past so there is no ambiguity about the actions that follow, the taste of betrayal "is" bitter and the insincerity, has been noted but a future "when" is really only a "when(stroke/)if." If the line were, "cuando me dices" it would mean that she regularly tells him that its over which would make no sense at all.

The subjunctive may be just a friend you havent met (or recognized) yet.

Your eyes are full of lies when they look at me
I taste deception on your lips when they kiss me
you arent sincere when you tell me you still love me
and I can discern the trecherous edge in your words

Its impossible to continue pretending like this
I applaud with all my soul  your noble effort
and i promise to steel myself for when you should tell me
that you dont love me that your heart is for another.

(wow ive made him sound like sound like a stuffy closed off arristo, que raro)

it now also occurs to me that had i written "if the line was" instead of "if the line were" I would have had to have been  referring to a line that had already existed as was is "to be" in the indicative (oh yes, try saying that when youre drunk. past present and infinitive in sequence, now i can die happy) you absolutely "need" to say "were" to illustrate the hypothetical nature of the line. So the next time someone suggests to you that "if something hypothetical was.." stop them and ask when exactly was it that it was?..... its time for my medication i think.

Aquí está la letra:

Mira como el sol

va pasando lentamente sobre tu cabeza

sin preguntar por qué estás allí.

 

Pide que seas tú

la que siempre hace que todo le parezca bello

y ella sabrá a quien va a besar.

 

Supe que eras tú

la que me salvaba cada vez que agonizaba

con tu mirar mis lagrimas se van.

 

Sabes recordar

todo lo que siento cuando me tienes adentro

del corazón me entregas de tu amor.

Traducción:

Look how the sun
passes slowly above your head
without asking why you are there.

It asks who you are
she who makes everything seem beautiful
and she will know who she will kiss.

I knew who you were
she who saved me every time I agonized
with a look from you my tears fall.

Do you have memory
of everything I feel when you have me inside
your heart? You give me your love.

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The last line is tricky- "Me entregas de tu amor" because she doesn't give all of her love, but she gives of her love (if I'm reading it correctly) I don't know how that should translate without being weird.

Ciego resplandor de enero
tejiendo de nuevo el manto

the warm breath of endless summer
is enveloped in threads of white
I am blinded by the glare of deep winter
weaving its mantle anew.

sooo sad... sniff sniff

these lovesick Spaniards are always in pain.

• Ay What luck so dark and tyrannical is my luck
• To have found you on my way one time,
• So happy and content when I lived without you
• When I didn’t even dream of your name

• Until that one fatal morning of my life,
• Fate sent you and my luck changed
• At that instant I felt that your dear image already
• Would never be erased from my mind

• That time so happy of my springtime
• When no sadness disturbed my happiness
• How many years passed of this sweet illusion
• With no disappointment occurring in my life

• What terrible fate pursued and guided me
• And led me to a path where I found pain
• If love is only continued agony
• I curse life and I curse love

• I don’t know what mystery enclosed itself in your life
• That I never could comprehend your love.
• I now have lost my faith and my hope
• Even though you swear a thousand time
• That you love me

• Because I believed in your kisses of fire,
• Because I believed in your kisses of love,
• If in your lips you gave me the wicked poison
• I curse my luck and I curse your love

Tambien, una otra pregunta. Como dirias "How did it go?"  Por ejemplo, un amigo regresa de una entrevista de trabajo y le dijiste "How did it go?"

Quizas,

Como te ha ido?

Como te fue?

Como fue?

• It isn't a commandment to be the diva of the moment
• To work for a statuesque body
• Perhaps you desire to feel that all eyes are on you
• And unleash whistles in passing
• Look for the essence not the appearance
• The body is only a box, and the eyes are windows
• In which our soul is trapped
• Look for the essence not the appearance
• All that enters through the eyes, they say, is superficial
• What is inside is what is valuable
• I perceive a spiritual scent, winged messengers
• Intent on landing, if you open the box what you ought to find
• Is a gem that dazzles you
• Look for the essence not the appearance
• 90-60-90 adds up to 240
• Figures that one does not have to take into account
• Look for the essence not the appearance
• Don't let yourself be measured, don't let yourself be confused
• Shine from within, assert yourself.

Lo siento por los puntos

no estoy seguro sobre del pasage que empiece "tu eres madre". Es posible que él diga "como la madre de tu hija" y no pude oir la proxima linea bien asi que he usado la transcript. me imagino que los pronombres adicionales son por enfasis pero, es posible que, yo este totalmente equivocado.

No estoy seguro de esto.  La ausencia de una preposición como en me resutla difícil de entender.

Si cruz no hubiera aparecido en la frase, habría sugerido que existía otro significado idiomático.  

Sin embargo, no me queda más remedio que estar de acuerdo con tu traducción y tu opinión de tu traducción también ... :)

Alone without you darling
I go walking, I go walking
I don’t know what to do
The heavens don’t answer me either
When I ask for you, my goodness

I haven’t been able to forget you
Since the night, Since the night
That I lost you
Alone, shadows of doubt and jealousy
Envelop me thinking about you

Let me search for you
And if I find you, and if I find you
Return again
Forget it happened
Now don’t remember that long gone yesterday

While I am sleeping
I dream that the two of us so close
Are under a blue sky
But when I awake
The sky is red, and I’m without you

Eventhough I am to blame
That distant sadness, that distant sad
separation
Dear God return so I can see your eyes
Return to love me, return my love

Tú me dijiste diecinueve
no quise desconfiar
pero es que ni mucho ni poco
no vi de dónde agarrar.

You told me [you were] 19

[And] I didn't want to doubt it

But you weren't too big and you weren't too little

[And] I didn't see much to hang on to

Muy coloquial esta canción, ¿no?  A propósito, el google me dice que la Señorita Cruz nació en 1974.  Si es verdad (...no quiero desconfiar...), tenía solamente 14 o 15 años cuando se presentó en el videoclip.  Me parece casi ridiculoso.

Otra estancia....

Y nos metimos en el coche
mi amigo, tu amiga tú y yo
te dije nena dame un beso
tú contestaste que no.

And we all piled into your car

Me and you, my friend and your friend

I said, babe, give me a kiss

[But] you just answered no way

¡Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh!

Otra canción...

...¡tan pronto como me sea posible!

Yeah, I like this new album from Julieta a lot.  The arrangements are pretty interesting.....in most of the cases I like them more than the originals.

Bueno, empiezo con la letra.  No estoy seguro, pero creo que se debe tener cuidado:  me parece que hay varios errores en la letra del web arriba.

Ok, I'll get started with the lyrics.  I'm not sure, but I think you have to be careful:  I think there are a bunch of errors in the lyrics from the web posted above.

Ya sé lo que te diga no va a ser suficiente
ayayayayay
y lo que tú me entregues dejará pendiente[s]
ayayayayay
quién nos dice que la vida
nos dará el tiempo necesario
toma de mí
lo que deseas como si sólo quedara.....

I already know that what I tell you won't make a difference

ayayayayay

and the things that you give me will be left for later [left hanging]

ayayayayay

But who says that life will give us the time that we need?

Take what you want from me, as if the only thing we had left were....

El presente es lo único que tengo
el presente es lo único que hay
es contigo mi vida con quien puedo sentir
que merece la pena vivir

The present is the only thing I have

The present is the only thing there is

And my life is here with you, where I can feel  

That life is worth living

La verdad es que no estoy seguro sobre la línea es contigo mi vida con quien puedo sentir...  También puede ser and it's with you, my love [my life], that I can feel...  No sé.

Hahahahahaha! I know this is why I was a bit shy when they took the picture! LOL