Ricardo Arjona
La bailarina vecina lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2008
- Genre
- Pop, Rock
- Length
- 3:48
Mi techo es su suelo la veo cuando escucho
My roof is her floor, I see her when I listen
La encuentro y me muero
I find her and I die
Su piso es mi cielo me vence aunque lucho
Her floor is my sky, she overcomes me even though I fight
Su olor de aguacero
Her scent of rainstorm
No sabe que existo no advierte que espero
She doesn't know I exist, she doesn't notice that I wait
Un buen empujón del destino
A good push from destiny
Mientras tanto soy solo el vecino
In the meantime, I'm just the neighbor
Ella vive arriba en el sexto piso yo escucho sus pasos
She lives upstairs on the sixth floor, I hear her footsteps
Yo panza arriba tirado en el piso viendo el cielo raso
I lie belly up on the floor, gazing at the ceiling
Parece un bongo sus pies en la duela
Her feet on the floor sound like a bongo
Con esa rutina del cisne
With that swan routine
Así es como empiezan los chismes
This is how the gossip begins
Casi la puedo puedo ver
I can almost see her
Persigo el camino del baño a la sala
I chase the path from the bathroom to the living room
Escucho caer su blusa de lino ya esta en la cama
I hear her linen blouse falling, it's already on the bed
Yo en cobertizo soñando con ella
I in the shed dreaming of her
Con la bailarina vecina
With the neighbor dancer
Se olvido de cerrar la cortina
She forgot to close the curtain
La bailarina vecina
The neighbor dancer
Se pone el tutú en el espejo
She puts on the tutu in the mirror
Yo estiro el pescuezo pa' verla en vitrina
I stretch my neck to see her in the showcase
La bailarina vecina
The neighbor dancer
Recorre mi techo en puntillas
Walks across my roof on tiptoes
Y le hace cosquillas de esquina en esquina
And tickles from corner to corner
¿Sabrá algo de mi la inquilina?
Does the tenant know anything about me?
Ojos de luna pelo de yegua su piel es de seda
Moon eyes, mare hair, her skin is silk
La espero a la una paciencia sin tregua flotando en la acera
I wait for her at one, patience without pause floating on the sidewalk
Y surfeo la ola que deja su espalda
And I surf the wave that leaves her back
Rumbo del Teatro Victoria
Heading to the Victoria Theater
El resto lo se de memoria
The rest I know by heart
La bailarina vecina
The neighbor dancer
Se pone el tutú en el espejo
Puts on her tutu in the mirror
Yo estiro el pescuezo pa' verla en vitrina
I stretch my neck to see her on display
La bailarina vecina
The neighbor dancer
Recorre mi techo en puntillas
Walks on tiptoe across my ceiling
Y le hace cosquillas de esquina en esquina
And tickles me from corner to corner
¿Sabrá algo de mi la inquilina?
Does the tenant know anything about me?
Mañana sera con todo el rigor la misma odisea
Tomorrow will be the same odyssey with all its rigor
¿Que plan detendrá el tímido amor?
What plan will stop the shy love?
Que sea lo que sea
Let it be whatever it is
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Key vocabulary
- caer
- to fallB1
- cortina
- curtainB1
- espejo
- mirrorB1
- lino
- linenB1
- vecino
- neighborA2
- vive
- livesA2
- así
- like thisA2
- casi
- almostA2
- ver
- seeA1
- baño
- bathA1
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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.