Laura Pausini
¿Por qué no volverán? lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Italian
- Level
- Beginner
- Released
- 1994
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 4:01
Cada vez caen por tierra más principios, hay más guerras
Every time more principles fall to the ground, there are more wars
Cuántas veces vuestra madre no sabrá de que va
How many times will your mother not know what it's about
Dos chiquillas que se miran llenas de alegría,
Two girls looking at each other full of joy,
Que se prueban la chaqueta de papá
Trying on dad's jacket
Pero luego que deprisa crecerá su vida
But then how quickly their lives will grow
Como un río desbordado y hablarán de amor en una esquina
Like a flooded river, and they'll talk about love on a corner
¿Por qué no volverán?
Why won't they come back?
Esa libertad
That freedom
Y esas carcajadas de los pocos años
And those laughs of the few years
¿Por qué no volverán?
Why won't they come back?
No sé donde están
I don't know where they are
No sé donde están
I don't know where they are
Dos hermanas que conspiran como dos buenas amigas
Two sisters who conspire like two good friends
Son dos almas que jamás dividirán la realidad,
They are two souls that will never divide reality,
Que una nocha con la luna, que mala fortuna
That one night with the moon, what bad luck
Se sentían dos sirenas en el viento gritaban su pena
They felt like two sirens in the wind crying their sorrow
¿Por qué no volverán?
Why won't they come back?
La complicidad
The complicity
Y las confesiones de contarse todo
And the confessions of telling each other everything
¿Por qué no volverán?
Why won't they come back?
No sé donde están
I don't know where they are
El recuerdo no consuela cuando trato de volver a verlas
The memory doesn't comfort when I try to see them again
¿Por qué no volverán?
Why won't they return?
Las canciones que
The songs that
En la ducha yo cantaba a voz en grito
In the shower I sang at the top of my lungs
¿Por qué no volverán?
Why won't they return?
La felicidad
Happiness
No sé donde está
I don't know where it is
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Key vocabulary
- madre
- motherA2
- guerras
- warsA1
- pocos
- fewA1
- principios
- principlesA1
- va
- goesA1
- cada
- each
- vez
- time
- caen
- fall
- por
- for
- tierra
- earth
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About this song
Laura Pausini is an Italian pop singer associated with adult contemporary and known for her powerful vocals and international chart success since her 1993 debut. She has sold tens of millions of albums worldwide, with multiple Italian chart-topping releases and a Golden Globe for her 2021 song “Io sì (Seen)” from The Life Ahead.