Ricardo Arjona
Olvidarte lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1998
- Genre
- Rock, Pop
- Length
- 5:31
Olvidarte es más difícil que encontrarse al sol de noche
Forgetting you is harder than finding the sun at night
Que entender a los políticos o comprar la Torre Eiffel
Than understanding politicians or buying the Eiffel Tower
Más difícil que fumarse un habano en American Airlines
Harder than smoking a cigar on American Airlines
Más difícil que una flor plástica marchita
Harder than a wilted plastic flower
Olvidarte es más difícil que una flaca en un Botero
Forgetting you is harder than a skinny girl in a Botero
Que encontrarse a un gato verde, o a un cubano sin sabor
Than meeting a green cat, or a bland Cuban
Más difícil que Lady Di en la estación del metro
Harder than Lady Di at the metro station
Olvidarte, es tan difícil olvidarte
Forgetting you, it's so hard to forget you
Olvidarte, olvidarte
Forgetting you, forgetting you
Es querer jalarle el pelo a una botella
It's like trying to pull hair from a bottle
Es creer que la memoria es un casete para borrar
It's believing that memory is a cassette to erase
Olvidarte es recordar que es imposible
Forgetting you is remembering that it's impossible
Olvidarte, olvidarte
Forgetting you, forgetting you
Incluso es más difícil que aguantarte
It's even harder than putting up with you
Si extraño tu neurosis y tus celos sin razón
If I miss your neurosis and your jealousies without reason
Cómo no extrañar tu cuerpo en mi colchón
How could I not miss your body on my bed
Olvidarte es un intento, que no lo deseo tanto
Forgetting you is an attempt, which I don't desire that much
Porque tanto es que lo intento, que me acuerdo mucho más
Because I try so much to forget, that I remember even more
Y he llegado a sospechar que mi afán de no acordarme
And I've come to suspect that my urge to not remember
Es lo que me tiene enfermo de recuerdos
Is what has me sick with memories
Olvidarte es lo que espero para reanudar mi vida
Forgetting you is what I hope to restart my life
Harto de seguir soñando con la posibilidad
Tired of dreaming about the possibility
De que un día por error, o pura curiosidad
That one day by mistake, or pure curiosity
Le preguntes a un amigo por mis huesos
You ask a friend about my bones
Olvidarte, olvidarte
Forgetting you, forgetting you
Es querer jalarle el pelo a una botella
It's like trying to pull the hair of a bottle
Es creer que la memoria es un casete para borrar
It's believing that memory is a cassette to erase
Olvidarte es recordar que es imposible
Forgetting you is remembering that it's impossible
Olvidarte, olvidarte
Forgetting you, forgetting you
Incluso es más difícil que aguantarte
It's even harder than putting up with you
Si extraño tu neurosis y tus celos sin razón
If I miss your neurosis and your baseless jealousy
Cómo no extrañar tu cuerpo en mi colchón
How could I not miss your body on my mattress
Es querer jalarle el pelo a una botella
It's like wanting to pull the hair of a bottle
Es creer que la memoria es un casete para borrar
It's believing that memory is a tape we can erase
Olvidarte es recordar que es imposible
Forgetting you is remembering that it's impossible
Olvidarte, olvidarte
Forgetting you, forgetting you
Incluso es más difícil que aguantarte
It's even harder than putting up with you
Si extraño tu neurosis y tus celos sin razón
If I miss your neurosis and your baseless jealousy
Cómo no extrañar tu cuerpo en mi colchón
How could I not miss your body on my mattress
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Key vocabulary
- razón
- reasonA1
- cómo
- howA2
- he
- I haveA2
- llegado
- arrivedA2
- vida
- lifeA2
- afán
- hurryC1
- colchón
- mattressC1
- cuerpo
- bodyC1
- aguantarte
- to put up with you
- celos
- jealousyB2
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.