Ricardo Arjona
Cómo duele lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2008
- Genre
- Pop, Rock
- Length
- 3:31
Te conseguí la luz del sol a medianoche
I brought you the sunlight at midnight
Y el número después del infinito
And the number after infinity
Instalé la Osa Mayor en tu diadema
I set the Big Dipper in your tiara
Y tú seguías ahí como si nada
And you were still there as if nothing happened
Endulcé el agua del mar para tu sed
I sweetened the seawater for your thirst
Te alquilé un cuarto menguante de la luna
I rented you a waning room of the moon
Y como buen perdedor busqué en la cama
And like a good loser, I searched in bed
Las cosas que el amor, no resolvía
For the things that love couldn't solve
Y cómo duele que estés tan lejos
And how it hurts that you're so far away
Durmiendo aquí en la misma cama
Sleeping here in the same bed
Cómo duele tanta distancia
How it hurts, this vast distance
Aunque te escucho respirar
Even though I can hear you breathe
Y estás a cientos de kilómetros
And you're hundreds of kilometers away
Y duele quererte tanto
And it hurts to love you so much
Fingir que todo está perfecto
Pretending that everything is perfect
Mientras duele gastar la vida
While it hurts to spend a lifetime
Tratando de localizar lo que hace tiempo se perdió
Trying to pinpoint what was lost long ago
Acabé con los jardines por tus flores
I ended the gardens for your flowers
Inventé la alquimia contra la utopía
I invented the alchemy against utopia
Y he llegado a confundir con la ternura
And I've come to confuse it with tenderness
La lástima con que a veces me miras
The pity with which you sometimes look at me
Qué triste es asumir el sufrimiento
How sad it is to embrace the suffering
Patético es creer que una mentira
Pathetic is the belief that a lie
Convoque a los duendes del milagro
Can summon the spirits of miracle
Que te hagan despertar enamorada
To make you wake up in love
Cómo duele que estés tan lejos
How it hurts that you're so far away
Durmiendo aquí en la misma cama
Sleeping here in the same bed
Cómo duele tanta distancia
How it hurts this much distance
Aunque te escucho respirar
Even though I hear you breathe
Y estás a cientos de kilómetros
And you're hundreds of kilometers away
Y duele quererte tanto
And it hurts to love you so much
Fingir que todo está perfecto
To pretend that everything is perfect
Mientras duele gastar la vida
While it hurts to waste life away
Tratando de localizar lo que hace tiempo se perdió
Trying to find what was lost a long time ago
Porque nos duele tanta distancia
Because it hurts us, this distance
Fingir que todo está perfecto
To pretend that everything is perfect
Mientras sientes que te duele gastar la vida
While you feel the pain of wasting life
Durmiendo aquí en la misma cama
Sleeping here in the same bed
¡Cómo duele!
Oh, how it hurts!
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Key vocabulary
- amor
- loveB1
- tiempo
- timeA1
- duendes
- elvesB2
- jardines
- gardensB2
- milagro
- miracleB2
- perdió
- lostB2
- ternura
- tendernessB2
- resolvía
- was solving
- distancia
- distanceA1
- escucho
- I listenA2
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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.