Álvaro Torres
Tan cerca y tan lejos lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1996
- Genre
- Latin Pop, Pop
- Length
- 3:47
No quiero, y sin embargo ultimamente
I don't want to, yet lately
solo pienso en ti
I only think of you
cierro los ojos y te veo,
I close my eyes and see you,
oigo tu voz en el silencio.
I hear your voice in the silence.
se que el amor esta rondando por aqui.
I know that love is lurking around here.
y siento, que no habra nada que me libre
And I feel that there will be nothing to free me
de sufrir por ti
from suffering for you.
es un amor inalcanzable
It's an unreachable love
del que yo vine a enamorme
that I came to fall in love with.
creo que esta vez la peor parte
I believe that this time the worst part
me toca a mi
it's my turn
y me tendre que conformar
and I'll have to be content
con tenerte en mi imaginacion
with having you in my imagination
estando tan cerca de ti,
being so close to you,
tan lejos de tu corazon.
so far from your heart.
calladamente te he de amar
quietly I'll love you
aunque no me des una razon
even if you don't give me a reason
y el sentimiento que hay en mi
and the feeling that's inside me
sera un secreto entre tu y yo.
will be a secret between you and me.
y me tendre que conformar
and I'll have to be content
con tenerte en mi imaginacion.
just having you in my imagination.
quisiera, como por magia ser motivo
I wish, like by magic, to be the reason
para tu ilusion
for your joy
y que ese beso en la mejia
and that kiss on your cheek
fuera en tu boca amiga mia
was on your lips, my friend.
y contagiarte en un abrazo
and to infect you with a hug
con este amor
with this love.
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Key vocabulary
- abrazo
- hugA2
- amiga
- female friendB1
- inalcanzable
- unattainableC1
- conformar
- conformB2
- sufrir
- to sufferB2
- enamorme
- fall in love
- creo
- I thinkA1
- tendre
- will have
- tenerte
- to have
- imaginacion
- imagination
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About this song
Álvaro Torres is a Salvadoran singer-songwriter specializing in Latin pop. He became well known in the early 1990s after releases like Nada Se Compara Contigo and was named BMI Songwriter of the Year in 1994.