Ricardo Arjona
Vives para morir lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Rock, Pop
- Length
- 3:28
En Las Vegas la ruleta,
In Las Vegas, the roulette,
En New York la soledad,
In New York, the loneliness,
En la China una etiqueta,
In China, a label,
Beijing la libertad.
Beijing, the freedom.
Iba el cojo en su muleta
The lame man on his crutch went,
El sicario a perseguir,
The hitman on the hunt,
Otra misa haciendo dieta,
Another mass on a diet,
Todos a sobrevivir.
Everyone just trying to survive.
Un farol alumbra un beso,
A lantern lights up a kiss,
Hay una gato en el placar,
There's a cat in the closet,
Y la artritis a los huesos,
And arthritis in the bones,
Y el reloj siempre a contar.
And the clock always ticks on.
Vives para morir,
You live to die,
Respira fuerte, solo te queda huir.
Breathe deep, you can only flee.
No busques suerte,
Don't seek luck,
Canta en vez de llorar.
Sing instead of cry.
Quieres ser inmune a todo lo que duela.
You want to be immune to everything that hurts.
Quiero ser lo que no he sido,
I want to be what I have not been,
Sepultar lo que se fue,
To bury what has gone,
Aprender de lo podrido,
To learn from the rotten,
Tanta agua y tanta sed.
So much water and so much thirst.
Me cansé de estar cansado,
I'm tired of being tired,
De un carnet de identidad,
Of an identity card,
Depender de un diputado,
Relying on a congressman,
Otra hormiga en la ciudad.
Another ant in the city.
Vives para morir,
You live to die,
Respira fuerte,
Breathe deep,
Solo te queda huir.
All that's left is to run.
No busques suerte,
Don't seek luck,
Canta en vez de llorar.
Sing instead of crying.
Quieres ser inmune a todo lo que duela.
You want to be immune to everything that aches.
Vives para morir,
You live to die,
Respira fuerte, solo te queda huir.
Breathe deep, you only have escape left.
No busques suerte,
Don't seek luck,
Canta en vez de llorar.
Sing instead of crying.
Quieres ser inmune a todo lo que duela.
You want to be immune to everything that aches.
Vives para morir,
You live to die,
Respira fuerte, solo te queda huir.
Breathe deep, you only have escape left.
No busques suerte,
Don't seek luck,
Canta en vez de llorar.
Sing instead of crying.
Quieres ser inmune a todo lo que duela.
You want to be immune to everything that hurts.
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Key vocabulary
- contar
- countB1
- vives
- liveA1
- huir
- to fleeB2
- morir
- dieA2
- suerte
- luckA2
- vez
- timeA2
- vegas
- valleysB2
- dieta
- dietB1
- solo
- onlyA1
- todo
- everythingA1
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.