Buena Vista Social Club
Veinte años lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1997
- Genre
- Son Cubano
- Length
- 3:32
¿Qué te importa que te ame?
What does it matter to you that I love you?
Si tú no me quieres ya
If you don't want me anymore
El amor que ya ha pasado
The love that has already passed
No se debe recordar
Should not be remembered
Fui la ilusión de tu vida
I was the illusion of your life
Un día lejano ya
A distant day already
Hoy represento al pasado
Today I represent the past
No me puedo conformar
I cannot be satisfied
Hoy represento al pasado
Today I represent the past
No me puedo conformar
I cannot be satisfied
Si las cosas que uno quiere
If the things we desire
Se pudieran alcanzar
Could be reached
Tú me quisieras lo mismo
You would love me the same
Que 20 años atrás
As you did 20 years ago
Con qué tristeza miramos
How sadly we watch
Un amor que se nos va
A love that slips away from us
Es un pedazo del alma
It's a piece of the soul
Que se arranca sin piedad
That gets torn away without mercy
Es un pedazo del alma
It's a piece of the soul
Que se arranca sin piedad
That gets torn away without mercy
Si las cosas que uno quiere
If the things one desires
Se pudieran alcanzar
Could be within reach
Tú me quisieras lo mismo
You would love me the same
Que 20 años atrás
As you did 20 years ago
Con qué tristeza miramos
With what sadness we watch
Un amor que se nos va
A love that slips away from us
Es un pedazo del alma
It's a piece of the soul
Que se arranca sin piedad
That is torn away mercilessly
Es un pedazo del alma
It's a piece of the soul
Que se arranca sin piedad
That is torn away mercilessly
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Key vocabulary
- alcanzar
- reachB2
- alma
- soulB2
- ame
- love
- arranca
- start
- cosas
- thingsA1
- hoy
- todayA1
- ilusión
- illusionB2
- miramos
- we look
- pedazo
- pieceA2
- piedad
- pityC1
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About this song
Producer Ry Cooder originally intended to record Malian musicians and Cuban locals, but the Africans were unable to obtain visas, so he made an album of Cuban son instead.