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Yo que nunca he sido sherpa, 00:11
se que coronar la cumbre cuesta, 00:14
y que un buen viaje nunca acaba cerca. 00:16
Llevo de equipaje esta cabeza terca. 00:18
Hoy me muevo por senderos nuevos 00:22
que aún así me traen recuerdos viejos. 00:24
La mente es un espejo, está encima de la mesa 00:27
y se obceca en recordar el percal que no me interesa 00:29
apenas. Penas, alegrías, alergias, 00:32
sinergias de la energía, inercias que no terminan... 00:37
Este es el juego del fuego y ser flamígeros 00:37
exige lo mejor de nosotros, quema el oxígeno. 00:42
Logré colar mi picola epístola en tu auricular 00:44
y hablar con una díscola en un disco-bar. 00:46
Yo soy solo un terrícola terrible y bipolar. 00:50
Tenía pasión avícola y no conseguí volar, 00:53
pero aún así aún me tiro. Si me despeño 00:55
al menos que sea poniendo empeño. Si me despierto 00:58
al menos que sea de un buen sueño. Si me la meto 01:01
al menos que sea enfrentando el reto como un hombretón, 01:04
mirando al dragón a los ojos. Que si me lanzo al vacío 01:07
sea con los míos y con arrojo. 01:10
Si te sonrojo que sea con un piropo. 01:12
Que si me topo contigo te quedes un trecho. 01:15
Porque, de hecho, yo lo que quiero es que te guste, 01:18
que te resulte tan cercano que te asuste. 01:21
Usted y yo pasándolo bien esta noche. 01:23
Ponte sexy y hazte un selfie que lo ilustre. 01:26
Yo no te canto embuste, 01:29
vinimos a ser agua allá donde todo combuste. 01:30
La piedra de la veta de la tierra que se incruste 01:34
en la joya de un alma que sufre y que quiere su suflé. 01:37
Son senderos que no caminé. 01:41
Inflándome el pecho volveré al monte a por laurel. 01:43
Cuando los afluentes confluyen 01:47
y crece el cauce, a veces la corriente es cruel... 01:48
Son senderos que no caminé 01:53
y que me llevan una y otra vez al mismo burdel. 01:53
Son senderos por los que se huye 01:57
cuando es tu puto recuerdo el que se prostituye. 01:59
Aquí seguimos firmes. Hablamos de caminos de vidas incombustibles, 02:02
a eso nos referimos: 02:07
a los que son partícipes en la elección del sino 02:08
y cultivan objetivos con personales fines. 02:10
Fue cuanto menos mágico que en el pasado nos cruzáramos 02:13
y hoy es necesario despedirnos. 02:16
El instante el que ambos fluctuamos de la mano 02:20
lo guardo grabado por si urge recordarlo. 02:22
Por si urge recordarte, por que no siempre soy fuerte. 02:25
Más de una vez quiero prenderme del olvido del presente 02:26
y repetirme que me dispuse a irme 02:31
luchando contra la serpiente hambrienta de mi vientre. 02:34
Si por mi hubiera sido yo seguiría contigo. 02:36
Me hubiera quedado con el tiempo detenido 02:38
y mi futuro hipotecado. Pero lo inexorable en estos lares 02:41
es vox populi. Aún quedan detalles por pulir. 02:45
Confluir, compartir y aunque duela concluir. Tan frío como lógico. 02:47
Aceptar lo doloroso. Se que solió ser útil. 02:51
No quiero ser poderoso, ni tampoco un soso púgil, 02:54
en la batalla vital, la carrera existencial. 02:58
Senderos paralelos pero de dispar final. 03:00
Para todos: un amor, una sangre, una vida. 03:02
Volveremos a encontrarnos al final de la partida. 03:06
Son senderos que no caminé. 03:11
Inflándome el pecho volveré al monte a por laurel. 03:12
Cuando los afluentes confluyen 03:16
y crece el cauce, a veces la corriente es cruel... 03:18
Son senderos que no caminé 03:22
y que me llevan una y otra vez al mismo burdel. 03:23
Son senderos por los que se huye 03:27
cuando es tu puto recuerdo el que se prostituye. 03:29
03:34
Salgo de casa en tirantes 03:44
con las llaves en la mano sueltas. 03:46
Hace un calor extraño para una tarde de mayo. ¡Agobio! 03:48
Miro el cielo y me doy cuenta. 03:51
Nada volverá ya a ser igual. 03:53
Cada fin de ciclo es necesario. 03:56
Subo la música en los cascos 03:59
y abro camino atravesando el barrio. 04:03
Desde siempre se que quieren que sigamos la corriente. 04:04
Te dicen que es lo que te conviene. 04:08
Pero yo quiero moverme e improvisar, 04:11
desaprendiendo para poder avanzar. 04:14
Lucho contra el miedo a la libertad. 04:16
Arriesgo porque quiero que algo nuevo venga. 04:19
Y el corazón actúa 04:22
por razones que la razón nunca entenderá. 04:23
La vie en rose que pintan es raquítica, 04:27
aburrida y fría, como insípida, 04:30
con normas estúpidas asumidas. Prefiero afrontar 04:32
todos los errores que la vida lleva implícita. 04:36
Otro día más despertando tarde. Necesito aclararme. 04:38
Cierro decisiones menos importantes para afrontar las de verdad. 04:44
Yo no espero un tren, un tren que no llega. 04:49
La espera en el andén es una eternidad. 04:52
Un constante movimiento trae un nuevo reto 04:56
para hacer del sueño una realidad. 04:58
De cada fin 05:01
nace un principio necesario. 05:03
Un trampolín, 05:06
y volver a saltar con gente afín hasta el confín. 05:07
A veces siento la herida de la partida. 05:11
Pero hay recompensas que al llegar lo equilibran. 05:15
Siempre viene un fuego nuevo que va y vuelve 05:17
y los amigos te animan. 05:21
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Buen Viaje – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

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Learning Spanish with Lágrimas de Sangre's "Buen Viaje" is an excellent way to connect with the vibrant and socially conscious contemporary music scene in Spain. The song's lyrics, full of metaphors about life's journey, offer a rich vocabulary and expressive phrases. Its blend of hip-hop, rock, and reggae makes it a dynamic and engaging track, perfect for learners who want to experience the power of music to convey both personal and universal themes of friendship, growth, and resilience.

[English]
I who have never been a sherpa,
know that reaching the summit is hard,
and that a good journey never ends nearby.
I carry this stubborn head as luggage.
Today I move through new paths
that still bring me old memories.
The mind is a mirror, it's on the table
and it insists on remembering the mess that doesn't interest me
hardly. Sorrows, joys, allergies,
synergies of energy, inertias that don't end...
This is the game of fire and being fiery
demands the best of us, burns oxygen.
I managed to sneak my small epistle into your ear
and talk to a rebellious woman in a disco-bar.
I'm just a terrible and bipolar earthling.
I had poultry passion and couldn't fly,
but still I still throw myself. If I fall
at least let it be by putting in effort. If I wake up
at least let it be from a good dream. If I screw up
at least let it be facing the challenge like a big man,
looking the dragon in the eye. If I throw myself into the void
let it be with my people and with courage.
If I make you blush, let it be with a compliment.
If I run into you, may you stay for a while.
Because, in fact, what I want is for you to like it,
for it to be so close that it scares you.
You and I having a good time tonight.
Get sexy and take a selfie that illustrates it.
I don't sing you lies,
we came to be water where everything combusts.
May the stone from the vein of the earth be encrusted
in the jewel of a soul that suffers and wants its soufflé.
They are paths that I did not walk.
Swelling my chest I will return to the mountain for laurel.
When the tributaries converge
and the flow grows, sometimes the current is cruel...
They are paths that I did not walk
and that lead me again and again to the same brothel.
They are paths through which one flees
when it is your fucking memory that is prostituted.
Here we remain firm. We speak of paths of unburnable lives,
that's what we mean:
to those who participate in the choice of fate
and cultivate objectives with personal purposes.
It was at least magical that we crossed paths in the past
and today it is necessary to say goodbye.
The moment in which we both fluctuated hand in hand
I keep it engraved in case it is urgent to remember it.
In case it is urgent to remember you, because I am not always strong.
More than once I want to cling to the oblivion of the present
and repeat to myself that I was ready to leave
fighting against the hungry snake in my belly.
If it had been up to me, I would still be with you.
I would have stayed with time stopped
and my future mortgaged. But the inexorable in these parts
is vox populi. There are still details to polish.
Come together, share and although it hurts, conclude. As cold as it is logical.
Accept the painful. I know it used to be useful.
I don't want to be powerful, nor a dull pugilist,
in the vital battle, the existential race.
Parallel paths but with different endings.
For everyone: one love, one blood, one life.
We will meet again at the end of the game.
They are paths that I did not walk.
Swelling my chest I will return to the mountain for laurel.
When the tributaries converge
and the flow grows, sometimes the current is cruel...
They are paths that I did not walk
and that lead me again and again to the same brothel.
They are paths through which one flees
when it is your fucking memory that is prostituted.
...
I leave home in a tank top
with the keys loose in my hand.
It's strangely hot for a May afternoon. Oppression!
I look at the sky and realize.
Nothing will ever be the same.
Each end of cycle is necessary.
I turn up the music in my headphones
and make my way through the neighborhood.
I've always known they want us to go with the flow.
They tell you it's what suits you.
But I want to move and improvise,
unlearning to be able to move forward.
I fight against the fear of freedom.
I take risks because I want something new to come.
And the heart acts
for reasons that reason will never understand.
The rosy picture they paint is weak,
boring and cold, like tasteless,
with stupid assumed rules. I prefer to face
all the mistakes that life implies.
Another day waking up late. I need to clear my head.
I close less important decisions to face the real ones.
I'm not waiting for a train, a train that doesn't arrive.
The wait on the platform is an eternity.
A constant movement brings a new challenge
to make the dream a reality.
From each end
a necessary beginning is born.
A trampoline,
and jump again with like-minded people to the end.
Sometimes I feel the wound of departure.
But there are rewards that balance it upon arrival.
There always comes a new fire that comes and goes
and friends encourage you.
...
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Vocabulary Meanings

sherpa

/ˈʃɜːr.pə/

B2
  • noun
  • - a member of a Himalayan people known for their skill in mountaineering

cumbre

/ˈkʌm.breɪ/

B1
  • noun
  • - the highest point of a mountain

viaje

/ˈvi.ɑː.hedʒ/

A2
  • noun
  • - a journey or trip

recuerdos

/rɪˈkwɜːr.doz/

B1
  • noun
  • - memories

energía

/ˌɛn.ərˈdʒiː.ə/

A2
  • noun
  • - energy

fuego

/ˈfweɪ.ɡoʊ/

A1
  • noun
  • - fire

pasión

/pæˈsiː.ən/

B1
  • noun
  • - passion

sueño

/ˈsweɪ.njoʊ/

A2
  • noun
  • - dream

recuerdo

/rɪˈkwɜːr.doʊ/

B1
  • noun
  • - memory

reto

/ˈreɪ.toʊ/

B1
  • noun
  • - challenge

corriente

/kəˈrɪn.tə/

B2
  • noun
  • - current (flow of water or air)

vida

/ˈviː.də/

A1
  • noun
  • - life

camino

/kəˈmiː.noʊ/

A2
  • noun
  • - path or way

amigos

/əˈmiː.ɡoʊs/

A1
  • noun
  • - friends

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Key Grammar Structures

  • Yo que nunca he sido sherpa, se que coronar la cumbre cuesta.

    ➔ Present perfect tense (he sido) to indicate an experience up to the present.

    ➔ The phrase "nunca he sido" emphasizes that the speaker has never been a sherpa.

  • La mente es un espejo, está encima de la mesa.

    ➔ Simple present tense (es, está) to describe a state or fact.

    ➔ The phrase "La mente es un espejo" suggests that the mind reflects thoughts and feelings.

  • Si me lanzo al vacío sea con los míos y con arrojo.

    ➔ Subjunctive mood (sea) to express a wish or hypothetical situation.

    ➔ The phrase "Si me lanzo al vacío" indicates a willingness to take risks.

  • A veces la corriente es cruel.

    ➔ Simple present tense (es) to express a general truth.

    ➔ The phrase "la corriente es cruel" reflects the harsh realities of life.

  • Cierro decisiones menos importantes para afrontar las de verdad.

    ➔ Present tense (cierro) to indicate an action currently taking place.

    ➔ The phrase "cierro decisiones menos importantes" suggests prioritizing significant choices.

  • Siempre viene un fuego nuevo que va y vuelve.

    ➔ Simple present tense (viene) to express a habitual action.

    ➔ The phrase "un fuego nuevo que va y vuelve" symbolizes new opportunities that arise.

  • Un trampolín, y volver a saltar con gente afín hasta el confín.

    ➔ Infinitive form (volver) to express purpose or intention.

    ➔ The phrase "volver a saltar" indicates a desire to take risks again.