Ricardo Arjona
Solo quería un café lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2000
- Genre
- Pop, Rock
- Length
- 3:51
Solo quería un café
I just wanted a coffee
Con poca azúcar
With a little sugar
Quizá un croissant
Maybe a croissant
No iba por la tertulia
I wasn't there for the chit-chat
O el flirteo
Or the flirting
Solo quería un café
I just wanted a coffee
Quizá echarle algún vistazo
Maybe to catch a glimpse
A las malas nuevas de los diarios o sacudirme
Of the bad news in the papers or shake off
Esa pereza crónica de mis amaneceres
That chronic laziness of my mornings
Juro por mí, que solo fui por un café
I swear on myself, I just went for a coffee
Pero te vi
But I saw you
Y cambiaste mi vida, mi ritmo, mi espacio
And you changed my life, my rhythm, my space
Mi tiempo, mi historia, mis sueños y todo
My time, my history, my dreams and everything
Y me agregaste risas, dos dudas, un duende
And you added laughter, two doubts, a sprite
Un par de fantasmas y este amor que te tengo
A couple of ghosts and this love that I have for you
Y juro por mí, que solo fui por un café
And I swear on myself, I only went for a coffee
Pero te vi
But I saw you
Quién iba a imaginar
Who would have imagined
Que esa mañana
That that morning
En el café
In the café
Yo iría a coincidir
I would go to meet
Con el milagro
With the miracle
De pisar el mismo espacio
Of stepping into the same space
A la misma hora que tú
At the same hour as you
Y como si esto fuera poco
And as if that weren't enough
Que tus ojos
That your eyes
Se fijaran justamente en mí
Would fixate right on me
Y juro por mí, que solo fui por un café
And I swear by myself, I just went for a coffee
Pero te vi
But I saw you
Y cambiaste mi vida, mi ritmo, mi espacio
And you changed my life, my rhythm, my space
Mi tiempo, mi historia, mis sueños y todo
My time, my story, my dreams and everything
Y me agregaste risas, dos dudas, un duende
And you added laughter, two doubts, a little spirit
Un par de fantasmas y este amor que te tengo
A couple of ghosts and this love that I have for you
Y juro por mí, que solo fui por un café
And I swear on myself, I only went for a coffee
Pero te vi
But I saw you
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Key vocabulary
- solo
- onlyA1
- quería
- wantedA2
- café
- coffeeA1
- poca
- fewB2
- azúcar
- sugarA1
- quizá
- maybeA1
- amaneceres
- dawnsB2
- juro
- I swearB2
- mí
- meA2
- fui
- I wentB1
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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.