Antes o después – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Fangoria

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the evocative Spanish lyrics of Fangoria's "Antes o después," an electropop gem that explores themes of truth, inevitability, and difficult choices. Its direct and relatable message, combined with Fangoria's distinctive electronic sound, offers a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in contemporary Spanish music and expand your vocabulary with powerful, everyday expressions.

[English]

Before you get angry

Let me speak.

I'm going to give you

A thousand reasons to hate me.

And then you tell me

What’s going to happen,

If you’re going to try

A leap forward.

What do I gain by enduring

What’s about to explode,

To sink, sooner or later?

Sooner or later

I’ll have to decide

If when you lie to me

I prefer not to pretend.

What need

Do we have to suffer,

If everything always ends

Sooner or later?

Don’t act like

The intellectual anymore

And just stop

With the grand speeches.

What do I gain by resurrecting

What I prefer to finish off

And bury, sooner or later?

You ask me for patience.

What a lack of shame!

It’s not worth it

Get to the point.

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[Spanish]

Antes de enfadarte

Déjame hablar.

Te voy a dar

Mil razones para odiarme.

Y después me cuentas

Lo que va a pasar,

Si vas a intentar

Una huída hacia adelante.

¿Qué gano yo con aguantar

Lo que está a punto de explotar,

Naufragar, antes o después?

Antes o después

Tendré que decidir

Si cuando tú me mientes

Prefiero no fingir.

¿Qué necesidad

Tenemos de sufrir,

Si todo acaba siempre

Antes o despues?

No te hagas más

El intelectual

Y déjate ya

De discursos rimbombantes.

¿Qué gano con resucitar

Lo que prefiero rematar

Y enterrar, antes o después?

Me pides paciencia.

¡Qué poca vergüenza!

No vale la pena

Ataja el problema.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
enfadar /emfaˈðar/ B1	verb - to anger, to annoy
hablar /aˈβlar/ A1	verb - to speak, to talk
razón /raˈθon/ A2	noun - reason
odiar /oˈðjar/ B1	verb - to hate
contar /konˈtar/ A1	verb - to count, to tell
intentar /intenˈtar/ A2	verb - to try, to attempt
huida /ˈwida/ B2	noun - escape, flight
aguantar /aɣwanˈtar/ B1	verb - to endure, to tolerate
explotar /eksploˈtar/ B2	verb - to explode, to burst
naufragar /nawfɾaˈɣar/ C1	verb - to shipwreck, to fail
decidir /deθiˈðir/ A2	verb - to decide
mentir /menˈtir/ A2	verb - to lie
fingir /finˈxir/ B1	verb - to pretend, to feign
sufrir /suˈfriɾ/ A2	verb - to suffer
intelectual /intelekˈtwal/ B2	noun - intellectual adjective - intellectual
resucitar /resuθiˈtar/ C1	verb - to resurrect, to revive
rematar /remaˈtaɾ/ B2	verb - to finish off, to complete
enterrar /enˈteraɾ/ B1	verb - to bury
vergüenza /beɾˈɣwenθa/ B1	noun - shame, embarrassment
problema /pɾoˈβlema/ A1	noun - problem