Maná
Falta amor lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1990
- Genre
- Latin Pop
- Length
- 4:15
Hoy ya la libró de comer
Today he's already free from hunger
Pobre niño de la calle
Poor child of the street
Pero hoy no la libró de dormir
But today he wasn't free from sleep
Bajo la banca de un parque
Under the bench in a park
No tiene padres ni tutores
He has no parents or guardians
Ni nadie que lo quiera
Nor anyone who cares for him
Hormigas, moscas y ratones
Ants, flies, and mice
Únicas compañeras
His only companions
Falta amor, mucho amor
There's a lack of love, so much love
Falta amor, falta amor
There's a lack of love, a lack of love
Un pequeño de apenas ocho años
A little one just eight years old
Va colgado en el tranvía
Hangs on the tram
A nadie le importa
No one cares
A nadie le preocupa la caída
No one worries about his fall
Y es que le falta edad
And it's that he lacks age
O le sobra la soledad
Or he's burdened by loneliness
Pero el caso es que duerme
But the fact is he sleeps
Estrechando la gran ciudad
Tight against the big city
Falta amor, mucho amor
There's a lack of love, so much love
Falta amor, falta amor
There's a lack of love, a lack of love
Cómo dejarles al olvido
How to leave them to forgetfulness
Cómo dejarles sin abrigo
How to leave them without shelter
Es imposible ignorarlos
It's impossible to ignore them
Y a veces falta amor
And sometimes there's a lack of love
Falta amor, falta amor, ¡yeah!
There's a lack of love, a lack of love, yeah!
El niño tiene un guardián
The boy has a guardian
Flaco, fiel y cariñoso
Thin, loyal, and affectionate
Un perro callejero escudero
A stray dog by his side
Llamado oso
Called Bear
No se pueden morir
They can't die
No dejan de sufrir
They don't stop suffering
Pero juntos se la ingenian
But together they manage
Se la rifan para sobrevivir
They take risks to survive
Falta amor, mucho amor
There's a lack of love, so much love
Falta amor, falta amor
There's a lack of love, a lack of love
Cómo dejarles al olvido
How to leave them to forgetfulness
Cómo dejarles sin abrigo
How to leave them without shelter
Es imposible ignorarlos
It's impossible to ignore them
Y a veces falta amor
And sometimes there's a lack of love
Falta amor, falta amor
There's a lack of love, a lack of love
Key vocabulary
- bajo
- lowA1
- calle
- streetA1
- comer
- to eatA1
- dormir
- sleepA2
- hoy
- todayA1
- nadie
- nobodyA2
- sufrir
- to sufferB2
- va
- goesA2
- ya
- alreadyA2
- imposible
- impossibleB1
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About this song
Mexican rock band from Guadalajara, around since 1986; among the top-selling Latin rock acts ever.