Café Tacvba
Debajo del mar lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1992
- Genre
- Indie Pop
- Length
- 3:01
En la noche me voy a ahogar
In the night, I’m going to drown
A ahogar debajo del mar
Drown me beneath the sea
Con grandes fantasmas
With mighty ghosts
Que me llevan a caminar
Who carry me to walk
¡Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Caminaba con una anciana
I walked with an old woman
Que lloraba por sus hijos
Who wept for her children
Yo le hablaba de tus ojos
I spoke to her about your eyes
De tu olor, ternura, todo
Your scent, tenderness—everything
A veces siento tristeza, (tristeza)
Sometimes I feel sadness, (sadness)
Tristeza de no mirarte, (de no mirarte)
Sadness of not looking at you, (of not looking at you)
Perderme en la eternidad, (eternidad)
To get lost in eternity, (eternity)
De tu oscuridad, (uh)
In your darkness, (uh)
A veces siento deseo, (a veces deseo)
Sometimes I feel desire, (sometimes desire)
Deseo de irme contigo, (contigo)
A desire to leave with you, (with you)
¿Será un sueño o infinito?
Will it be a dream or infinity?
Serás solo tú
It will just be you
En otoño caen las hojas
In autumn the leaves fall
Llenas de nostalgia
Filled with nostalgia
En mis manos mareadas
In my dizzy hands
De 96 grados saturados
Of 96 degrees, heavy with saturation
¡Ha, ha, ha!
Yo le hablaba solo de ti
I was talking to her only about you
De los perfumes, de tus flores
About perfumes, about your flowers
Y ella me explicó que
And she explained to me that
La eternidad eras tú
Eternity was you
Eras tú, ¡ha, ha, ha!
You were you, ha, ha, ha!
A veces siento deseo, (deseo)
Sometimes I feel desire, (desire)
Deseo de irme contigo, (contigo)
Desire to go with you, (with you)
¿Será un sueño o infinito? (infinito)
Is it a dream or infinity? (infinity)
Serás solo tú
It’ll be just you
A veces siento tristeza
Sometimes I feel sad
Tristeza de no mirarte
Sadness of not being able to look at you
A veces siento deseo
Sometimes I feel desire
Deseo de irme contigo
Desire to go with you
(Uh), a veces siento tristeza, (a veces tristeza)
(Uh), sometimes I feel sad, (sometimes sadness)
Tristeza de no mirarte, (no mirarte)
Sadness of not being able to look at you, (not to look at you)
¿Será un sueño o infinito?
Will it be a dream or infinity?
Serás solo tú
It’ll be just you
¡Ha!
Oh!
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Key vocabulary
- ahogar
- drownC2
- debajo
- underA2
- fantasmas
- ghostsB1
- llevan
- carryB2
- caminar
- walkA2
- ha
- hasA2
- caminaba
- walkedB1
- grandes
- largeA1
- hijos
- childrenA1
- mar
- seaA1
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About this song
Café Tacvba are a Mexican rock en español band. Formed in Mexico City in the late 1980s, they are known for blending alternative rock with Mexican folk and other genres across acclaimed albums such as Re (1994) and their later genre-hopping releases.