Ricardo Arjona
Abarrotería de amor lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1996
- Genre
- Pop, Rock
- Length
- 3:41
El misterio estaba allí
The mystery was there
En aquella casa color ladrillo
In that brick-colored house
Un faro rojo en la puerta
A red lighthouse at the door
Y un letrero amarillo
And a yellow sign
Era una abarrotería de amor
It was a grocery store of love
Unos billetes para conocer el sabor
Some bills to taste the flavor
De una cama compartida
Of a shared bed
Con damas sin nombre
With nameless ladies
Con el fantasma de la virginidad
With the ghost of virginity
El ahorro perdió la dignidad
Save lost its dignity
Rompí la alcancía
I broke the piggy bank
Toqué la puerta y entré
I knocked on the door and walked in
No hubo celos ni suegras
There were no jealousies or mothers-in-law
Ni tuve que invitarlas al cine
Nor did I have to invite them to the movies
No hubo escenas ni cuñados
There were no scenes or brothers-in-law
Y menos un maldito abogado
And certainly no damn lawyer
Era todo democracia
It was all democracy
No había edad ni clases sociales
There was no age or social classes
Si cumplías con la tarifa
If you met the fee
Tenías tu pedacito de cielo
You had your little piece of heaven
Cuatro besos, medio kilo de amor
Four kisses, half a kilo of love
Dos abrazos y un litro de sudor
Two hugs and a liter of sweat
Una abarrotería de amor
A grocery store of love
Eeh
Allí encontré a mi maestro de escuela
There I found my schoolteacher
A un ginecólogo y a un intelectual
A gynecologist and an intellectual
A tres cantautores borrachos
Three drunken singer-songwriters
Y a un gobernador
And a governor
"No te pongas nervioso" me dijo
"Don't get nervous," he said to me
Una chica vestida de rojo
A girl dressed in red
Entré a su cuarto siendo un chiquillo
I entered her room as a young boy
Y al salir fui un señor
And when I left, I was a man
En la escuela me hablaban de Colón
At school, they talked to me about Columbus
Y de las tablas de multiplicación
And about the multiplication tables
Pero no mencionaron
But they never mentioned
Cómo es que se hace el amor
How to make love
No hubo celos ni suegras
There were no jealousies or mothers-in-law
Ni tuve que invitarlas al cine
Nor did I have to invite them to the movies
No hubo escenas ni cuñados
There were no scenes or brothers-in-law
Y menos un maldito abogado
And certainly no damned lawyer
Era todo democracia
It was all democracy
No había edad ni clases sociales
There was no age or social classes
Si cumplías con la tarifa
If you paid the fare
Tenías tu pedacito de cielo
You had your little piece of heaven
Cuatro besos, medio kilo de amor
Four kisses, half a kilo of love
Dos abrazos y un litro de sudor
Two hugs and a liter of sweat
Una abarrotería de amor
A grocery store of love
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Key vocabulary
- rojo
- redA1
- todo
- everythingA1
- fantasma
- ghostB1
- letrero
- signB1
- sabor
- flavorB1
- toqué
- touchedB1
- tuve
- hadB1
- estaba
- wasB1
- allí
- thereA1
- aquella
- thatB1
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About this song
Ricardo Arjona is a Guatemalan singer-songwriter and actor in the Latin pop and Latin ballad genres. He is known for the chart-topping hits “Mujeres” and “El Problema,” and for a long-running career with numerous Billboard Latin chart entries and honors, including induction into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame.