Ricardo Arjona
Ella sabe lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Pop, Rock
- Length
- 2:53
No cupo el ombligo en su blusa
The belly button didn't fit in her blouse
Falda bonsái paletón
Bonsai skirt, paletón
Curvas de montaña rusa
Curves like a roller coaster
Medias de blanco algodón
White cotton stockings
Te mueves en la banqueta
You move on the sidewalk
Con tu piel de celofán
With your cellophane skin
Y un albañil se hace poeta
And a builder becomes a poet
Y un soldadito capitán
And a little soldier, a captain
Y ella sabe que la miro
And she knows that I watch her
Y yo sabiendo que ella sabe
And I know that she knows
Meto el amor en un suspiro
I put love in a sigh
Si es que en un suspiro cabe
If a sigh can hold it
Donde termina su espalda
Where her back ends
Es donde empieza el desvelo
Is where sleeplessness begins
Mínima tela en su falda
A minimal fabric in her skirt
La noche duerme en su pelo
The night sleeps in her hair
Cada verso que le escribo
Every verse I write for her
Es cada beso que me debe
Is every kiss she owes me
Cada sorbo de un suspiro
Every sip of a sigh
Y si me acerco retrocede
And if I get closer, she retreats
Y ella sabe que la miro
And she knows that I watch her
Y yo sabiendo que ella sabe
And I knowing that she knows
Meto el amor en un suspiro
I place love in a sigh
Si es que en un suspiro cabe
If a sigh can hold so much
Tanto pecado pendiente
So much sin awaiting
En su cintura solar
On her solar waist
Mil años luz a su vientre
A thousand light years to her belly
Es mi distancia polar
Is my polar distance
Y ella sabe que la miro
And she knows that I watch her
Y yo sabiendo que ella sabe
And I knowing that she knows
Meto el amor en un suspiro
I put love into a sigh
Si es que un suspiro cabe
If a sigh can hold it
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Key vocabulary
- cupo
- capacity
- ombligo
- bellybuttonC1
- blusa
- blouseA2
- falda
- skirtA1
- bonsái
- bonsai
- paletón
- sledge
- rusa
- Russian
- pelo
- hairA1
- cada
- eachB2
- le
- to him/her/youA2
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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.