Allí donde solíamos gritar – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

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

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into Love of Lesbian's poignant song, "Allí donde solíamos gritar," a beautiful exploration of memory and emotion. By understanding its lyrics, you'll gain insight into Spanish expressions of nostalgia and the search for peace, all while enjoying the band's signature indie style.

[English]

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

Where we used to scream

Ten years before this now, timeless age

The monster still lives and there's still no peace

And on the benches we wrote on

In half darkness, without thinking

All the verses of Heroes

With the flaws of a kid

They’re still here

And even now, it slips out of my control

Problem and solution

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

And even today, only the scream and fiction

Can turn off

The lights of my black alert

I have a plastic knife

Where there used to be metal

And the strange book that made you fall for kids

I had to burn its pages

And in the bars that divide

The roughest fall

The two initials still remain

That we wrote with a compass

There they are

Vertical and crosswise

I am scream and I am glass

Just the midpoint

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

It will drown you and drown me

And only the scream will save us

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

And the scream always comes back

And with us, it will die

Cold and brief like a verse

Written in animal language

And it's always there

It'll drown you and drown me

And only the scream will save us

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

Vertical and crosswise

I am scream and I am glass

Just the midpoint

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

And that's it, now there's peace

That's it, now there's peace

Oh-oh, now there's peace

...

[Spanish]

¿A que no sabes dónde he vuelto hoy?

Donde solíamos gritar

Diez años antes de este ahora sin edad

Aún vive el monstruo y aún no hay paz

Y en los bancos que escribimos

Medio a oscuras, sin pensar

Todos los versos de Heroes

Con las faltas de un chaval

Aún están

Y aún hoy se escapa a mi control

Problema y solución

Y es que el grito siempre acecha, es la respuesta

Y aún hoy solo el grito y la ficción

Consiguen apagar

Las luces de mi negra alerta

Tengo un cuchillo y es de plástico

Donde solía haber metal

Y el libro extraño que te echó de párvulos

Sus hojas tuve que incendiar

Y en los hierros que separan

La caída más brutal

Siguen las dos iniciales

Que escribimos con compás

Ahí están

Vertical y transversal

Soy grito y soy cristal

Justo el punto medio

El que tanto odiabas cuando tú me repetías que

Te hundirá y me hundirá

Y solamente el grito nos servirá

Decías: "es fácil" y solías empezar

Y es que el grito siempre vuelve

Y con nosotros morirá

Frío y breve como un verso

Escrito en lengua animal

Y siempre está

Te hundirá y me hundirá

Y solamente el grito nos servirá

Y ahora no es fácil, tú solías empezar

Vertical y transversal

Soy grito y soy cristal

Justo el punto medio

El que tanto odiabas cuándo tú me provocabas aullar

Y ya está, ya hay paz

Ya está, ya hay paz

Oh-oh, ya hay paz

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.