ROSALÍA
Te venero lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2017
- Genre
- Latin Pop
- Length
- 4:07
La flor que yo corté
The flower that I picked
La flor que yo corté
The flower that I picked
Y una flor que yo corté
And a flower that I picked
Que le llaman pensamiento
They call it thought
Me recordó los tormentos
Reminded me of the torment
Que me causó una mujer
That a woman caused me
Pero a Cuba me marché
But to Cuba I departed
Pero a Cuba yo marché
But to Cuba I set sail
Para probar mi fortuna
To try my luck
Sin esperanza ninguna
Without any hope
Y en Cuba encontré
And in Cuba I found
Y en darle mi querer
And in giving you my love
Me quiso como ninguna
You loved me like no other
¡Ay!, Cuba linda te venero
Oh!, beautiful Cuba I revere you
Cuba linda te venero
Beautiful Cuba I revere you
Por tu belleza sin par
For your unmatched beauty
Por tu belleza sin par
For your unmatched beauty
Qué guapa me has parecío
How stunning you appeared to me
Cuando en el baile te hablé
When I spoke to you in the dance
Que me pareciste otra
That you seemed like another to me
Más bonita y más preciosa
More beautiful and more precious
Que la, que la mata del café
Than the, than the coffee plant
Nace el hombre y al nacer
A man is born, and at birth
Nace el hombre y al nacer
A man is born, and at birth
Cárcel por destino tiene
Prison is the fate that awaits him
Porque solamente viene
Because he only comes
A un continuo padecer
To a constant suffering
Una noche en que la luna
One night when the moon
Una noche en que la luna
One night when the moon
No daba su luz tan bella
Did not shine with such beauty
Tan solamente una estrella
Just a single star
Que alumbraba mi fortuna
That illuminated my fortune
Sin esperanza ninguna
Without any hope at all
Hasta el sepulcro llegué
Until I reached the grave
Y una dalia coloqué
And I placed a dahlia there
En prueba del amor mío
As proof of my love
¿Dónde están los restos fríos?
Where are the cold remains?
De la mujer que adoré
Of the woman I adored
¿Dónde están los restos fríos?
Where are the cold remains?
De la mujer que adoré
Of the woman I adored
¿Dónde están los restos fríos?
Where are the cold remnants?
De la mujer que adoré
Of the woman I adored
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Key vocabulary
- flor
- flowerA1
- corté
- cutB1
- le
- Indirect object pronoun meaning “to him/to her/to you” (singular) or “to it” (in formal/impersonal uses), depending on context.A2
- llaman
- they call
- pensamiento
- thoughtB2
- recordó
- remembered
- tormentos
- torments
- causó
- caused
- mujer
- womanA1
- marché
- left
About this song
Flouting genre conventions while exploring silence and space as much as sound, ROSALÍA has remade flamenco and pop in the process.