Allí donde solíamos gritar – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Love of Lesbian
• Album: El Gran Truco final

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

¿A que no sabes dónde he vuelto hoy?

Guess you won't believe where I've come back today

Donde solíamos gritar

Where we used to scream

Diez años antes de este ahora sin edad

Ten years before this now, timeless age

Aún vive el monstruo y aún no hay paz

The monster still lives and there's still no peace

Y en los bancos que escribimos

And on the benches we wrote on

Medio a oscuras, sin pensar

In half darkness, without thinking

Todos los versos de Heroes

All the verses of Heroes

Con las faltas de un chaval

With the flaws of a kid

Aún están

They’re still here

Y aún hoy se escapa a mi control

And even now, it slips out of my control

Problema y solución

Problem and solution

Y es que el grito siempre acecha, es la respuesta

And the scream is always lurking, it's the answer

Y aún hoy solo el grito y la ficción

And even today, only the scream and fiction

Consiguen apagar

Can turn off

Las luces de mi negra alerta

The lights of my black alert

Tengo un cuchillo y es de plástico

I have a plastic knife

Donde solía haber metal

Where there used to be metal

Y el libro extraño que te echó de párvulos

And the strange book that made you fall for kids

Sus hojas tuve que incendiar

I had to burn its pages

Y en los hierros que separan

And in the bars that divide

La caída más brutal

The roughest fall

Siguen las dos iniciales

The two initials still remain

Que escribimos con compás

That we wrote with a compass

Ahí están

There they are

Vertical y transversal

Vertical and crosswise

Soy grito y soy cristal

I am scream and I am glass

Justo el punto medio

Just the midpoint

El que tanto odiabas cuando tú me repetías que

The one you hated so much, when you kept telling me

Te hundirá y me hundirá

It will drown you and drown me

Y solamente el grito nos servirá

And only the scream will save us

Decías: "es fácil" y solías empezar

You said: "It's easy," and you used to start

Y es que el grito siempre vuelve

And the scream always comes back

Y con nosotros morirá

And with us, it will die

Frío y breve como un verso

Cold and brief like a verse

Escrito en lengua animal

Written in animal language

Y siempre está

And it's always there

Te hundirá y me hundirá

It'll drown you and drown me

Y solamente el grito nos servirá

And only the scream will save us

Y ahora no es fácil, tú solías empezar

And now, it's not easy, you used to start

Vertical y transversal

Vertical and crosswise

Soy grito y soy cristal

I am scream and I am glass

Justo el punto medio

Just the midpoint

El que tanto odiabas cuándo tú me provocabas aullar

The one you hated so much, when you provoked me to howl

Y ya está, ya hay paz

And that's it, now there's peace

Ya está, ya hay paz

That's it, now there's peace

Oh-oh, ya hay paz

Oh-oh, now there's peace

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
gritar /ɡɾiˈtaɾ/ A2	verb - to shout, to scream
monstruo /ˈmonstɾwo/ B1	noun - monster
paz /pas/ A1	noun - peace
oscuro/a /osˈkuɾo/ B1	adjective - dark
verso /ˈbeɾso/ B1	noun - verse
control /konˈtɾol/ B1	noun - control verb - to control
problema /pɾoˈβlema/ A1	noun - problem
solución /soloˈθjon/ B1	noun - solution
acechar /aˈt͡ʃe.t͡ʃaɾ/ B2	verb - to stalk, to lie in wait
ficción /fikˈθjon/ B2	noun - fiction
apagar /apaˈɡaɾ/ A2	verb - to turn off, to extinguish
alerta /aˈleɾta/ B1	noun - alert, warning
cuchillo /kuˈt͡ʃiʎo/ A2	noun - knife
extraño/a /eksˈtɾaɲo/ B1	adjective - strange, odd
hoja /ˈoxa/ A2	noun - leaf, page
incendiar /inθenˈdjaɾ/ B2	verb - to set on fire, to ignite
caída /kaˈiða/ A2	noun - fall
brutal /bɾuˈtal/ B2	adjective - brutal
cristal /kɾisˈtal/ B1	noun - crystal, glass
hundir /unˈdiɾ/ B2	verb - to sink, to ruin

Key Grammar Structures

• ¿A que no sabes dónde he vuelto hoy?

  ➔ Use of direct speech with question inversion.

  ➔ The sentence is a question formed with inversion, typical in Spanish interrogatives.

• Y en los bancos que escribimos

  ➔ Use of relative clause to specify ‘bancos’.

  ➔ The phrase uses a relative clause 'que escribimos' to specify which benches are being referred to.

• Con las faltas de un chaval

  ➔ Prepositional phrase indicating possession or characteristic.

  ➔ Prepositional phrase showing possession of ‘faltas’ (faults) by ‘un chaval’ (a kid).

• Ya hay paz

  ➔ Existential expression with 'hay' indicating existence.

  ➔ The phrase uses the verb 'haber' in its form 'hay' to indicate that 'peace' now exists.

• Soy grito y soy cristal

  ➔ Use of the verb 'ser' to express identity or qualities with predicate nouns.

  ➔ The sentence uses 'ser' to equate 'grito' (shout) and 'cristal' (crystal) as qualities or identities of the speaker.