1000 Lágrimas – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Dragonfly
• Album: Alma Irae

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the raw emotion and expressive power of Spanish Heavy Metal with "1000 Lágrimas." Learning the lyrics offers an excellent opportunity to expand your vocabulary beyond common phrases and encounter more complex, figurative language used to discuss existential themes, social critique, and defiance. This song's powerful delivery and Spanish metal context make it a unique and compelling tool for language immersion.

[English]

Wake up, but don’t stop dreaming

After today, what will remain?

If in the end, so little will be left

A thousand tears will fall

And maybe this time

I feel like I will lose

Accomplice in killing the dream

Better to die than to live in fear

Without trying to change

Pretending not to know something’s wrong

You’ll be a hypocrite

And again and again

I just can’t understand

...

That you look and don’t want to see

That the earth is your home

From the forests to the sea

Today, thick clouds don’t let you see

Not even the air you breathe, or the water to drink

It’s not

From what there was yesterday

Very little’s left today

(Help me!) to calm this pain

Let your silence become a voice

Let our cry reach God

Let’s not stay silent, let’s have hope

Everything is in the heart

And again and again

I just can’t understand

That you look and don’t want to see

That the earth is your home

From the forests to the sea

Today, thick clouds don’t let you see

Not even the air you breathe, or the water to drink

It’s not

(From what there was yesterday)

(Very little’s left today)

Help me! (to calm this pain)

Let your silence become a voice

Let our cry reach God

Let’s not stay silent, let’s have hope

Everything is in the heart

From what there was yesterday

Very little’s left today

(Help me!) to calm this pain

Let your silence become a voice

Let our cry reach God

Let’s not stay silent, let’s have hope

Everything is in the heart

From what there was yesterday

Very little’s left today

Help me!... (to calm this pain)

Let your silence become a voice

Let our cry reach God

Let’s not stay silent, let’s have hope

Everything is in the heart

From what there was yesterday

Very little’s left today (very little’s left today)

To calm this pain (to calm this pain)

Let your silence become a voice (become a voice)

Let our cry reach God

Let’s not stay silent, let’s have hope

Everything is in the heart (everything is in the heart...)

From the forests to the sea

...

[Spanish]

Despiértate sin dejar de soñar

Después de hoy, ¿qué habrá?

Si al final, muy poco quedará

Mil lágrimas caerán

Y tal vez esta vez

Siento que voy a perder

Cómplice de matar la ilusión

Mejor morir que con miedo vivir

Sin intentar cambiar

Disimular saber que algo va mal

Hipócrita serás

Y una vez y otra vez

No lo puedo comprender

Que mires y no quieras entender

Que la tierra es tu hogar

De los bosques al mar

Hoy densas nubes no te dejan ver

Ni el aire que respiras, ni el agua para beber

No es

De lo que hubo ayer

Muy poco queda hoy

(¡Ayúdame!) a calmar este dolor

Que tu silencio se haga voz

Que nuestro ruego llegue a Dios

A no callarse, a esperanzarse

Todo está en el corazón

Y una vez y otra vez

No lo puedo comprender

Que mires y no quieras entender

Que la tierra es tu hogar

De los bosques al mar

Hoy densas nubes no te dejan ver

Ni el aire que respiras, ni el agua para beber

No es

(De lo que hubo ayer)

(Muy poco queda hoy)

¡Ayúdame! (a calmar este dolor)

Que tu silencio se haga voz

Que nuestro ruego llegue a Dios

A no callarse, a esperanzarse

Todo está en el corazón

De lo que hubo ayer

Muy poco queda hoy

(¡Ayúdame!) a calmar este dolor

Que tu silencio se haga voz

Que nuestro ruego llegue a Dios

A no callarse, a esperanzarse

Todo está en el corazón

De lo que hubo ayer

Muy poco queda hoy

¡Ayúdame!... (a calmar este dolor)

Que tu silencio se haga voz

Que nuestro ruego llegue a Dios

A no callarse, a esperanzarse

Todo está en el corazón

De lo que hubo ayer

Muy poco queda hoy (muy poco queda hoy)

A calmar este dolor (a calmar este dolor)

Que tu silencio se haga voz (se haga voz)

Que nuestro ruego llegue a Dios

A no callarse, a esperanzarse

Todo está en el corazón (todo está en el corazón...)

De los bosques al mar

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
soñar /soˈɲar/ A2	verb - to dream
lágrima /ˈlaɣɾima/ A2	noun - tear (drop from the eye)
perder /peɾˈdeɾ/ A2	verb - to lose
miedo /ˈmjɛðo/ A2	noun - fear
vivir /biˈβiɾ/ A1	verb - to live
cambiar /kamˈbjaɾ/ A2	verb - to change
comprender /kompɾenˈdeɾ/ A2	verb - to understand
tierra /ˈtjera/ A1	noun - earth; land
hogar /oˈɡaɾ/ B1	noun - home; household
bosque /ˈboske/ A2	noun - forest
mar /mar/ A1	noun - sea
nube /ˈnuβe/ A2	noun - cloud
aire /ˈaiɾe/ A2	noun - air
agua /ˈaɣwa/ A1	noun - water
silencio /siˈlenθjo/ A2	noun - silence
voz /boθ/ A2	noun - voice
dolor /doˈloɾ/ B1	noun - pain
corazón /koɾaˈθon/ A2	noun - heart (organ or emotion)

Key Grammar Structures

• Despiértate sin dejar de soñar

  ➔ Imperative with reflexive pronoun + infinitive clause

  ➔ "Despiértate" means 'wake yourself up'. The reflexive form shows the action affects oneself, while "sin dejar de soñar" ('without stopping dreaming') uses an infinitive clause to express continuity.

• Si al final, muy poco quedará

  ➔ Conditional clause + future tense

  ➔ "Si" introduces a condition ('if at the end'), and "quedará" uses the future tense to express a hypothetical result.

• Mejor morir que con miedo vivir

  ➔ Comparative structure using 'mejor ... que ...' + infinitives

  ➔ The phrase compares two actions: 'to die' and 'to live with fear'. It literally means 'better to die than to live in fear'.

• Disimular saber que algo va mal

  ➔ Infinitive phrase expressing simultaneous actions

  ➔ "Disimular" ('to pretend') and "saber" ('to know') connect without conjunction, implying pretending while knowing something is wrong.

• Que mires y no quieras entender

  ➔ Subordinate clause with subjunctives after 'que'

  ➔ The verbs 'mires' and 'quieras' are in the subjunctive, expressing emotion or judgment rather than fact.

• Que tu silencio se haga voz

  ➔ Passive reflexive construction with subjunctive

  ➔ "Se haga" comes from "hacerse" in subjunctive form, meaning 'may your silence become a voice'. It’s a wish or hope.

• A no callarse, a esperanzarse

  ➔ Infinitive phrase with reflexive verbs for exhortation

  ➔ The 'a + infinitive' structure here encourages actions: 'to not be silent' and 'to have hope'. Both verbs are reflexive.

• Todo está en el corazón

  ➔ Simple present with existential meaning

  ➔ "Está" (from 'estar') expresses location or symbolic existence, meaning 'everything is within the heart'.