Busco a alguien – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Flor Amargo, Mon Laferte

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

Busco a alguien que me quiera ayudar

I'm looking for someone who wants to help me

Y me pueda entender

And can understand me

Y me quiera sacar de aquí.

And wants to get me out of here.

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Quiero encontrar alguien al fin

I want to find someone at last

Que pueda entenderme y comprender

Who can understand me and comprehend

Un nuevo amor quiero sentir

I want to feel a new love

Una ilusión para vivir

An illusion to live for

Para desnudar el alma a plena luz del sol

To bare my soul in broad daylight

Y gritarle a besos que adoro su voz.

And scream with kisses that I adore your voice.

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Yo ya perdí toda ilusión

I've already lost all hope

De encontrarme a alguien así

Of finding someone like that

Pero si estas y me oyes al fin

But if you're here and you hear me at last

Pon me atención que te quiero decir

Pay attention because I want to tell you

Te llevare hasta el final

I'll take you to the end

Te besaré a la orilla del mar

I'll kiss you by the sea

Para desnudar el alma a plena luz del sol

To bare my soul in broad daylight

Y gritarte a besos que adoro tu voz

And scream with kisses that I adore your voice

Para desnudar el alma a plena luz del sol

To bare my soul in broad daylight

Y envolver tus sueños en oro y pasión

And wrap your dreams in gold and passion

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No me canso de buscar

I don't tire of searching

No me canso de inventar

I don't tire of inventing

Para mi sólita soledad

For my lonely solitude

Podríamos reinventar

We could reinvent

La palabra antigüedad

The word old age

La palabra amistad

The word friendship

Pues lo único que busco

Because all I'm looking for

Es un amigo nada más

Is a friend, nothing more

Que comprenda mi locura

Who understands my madness

Sin pensar en nada más

Without thinking of anything else

Y caminando por la tierra

And walking through the earth

Yo seguiré buscando a alguien

I will keep looking for someone

(Que me pueda ayudar)

(Who can help me)

Yo seguiré buscando a alguien

I will keep looking for someone

(Que me pueda entender)

(Who can understand me)

Yo seguiré buscando a alguien

I will keep looking for someone

(Que me pueda ayudar)

(Who can help me)

Yo seguiré buscando a alguien

I will keep looking for someone

(Que me pueda entender)

(Who can understand me)

Yo seguiré buscando a alguien.

I will keep looking for someone.

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
buscar /busˈkaɾ/ A1	verb - to look for, to search
ayudar /a.ʝuˈðaɾ/ A1	verb - to help, to assist
querer /keˈɾeɾ/ A1	verb - to want, to love
entender /en.tenˈdeɾ/ A2	verb - to understand
sacar /saˈkaɾ/ A2	verb - to take out, to remove
encontrar /en.konˈtɾaɾ/ A2	verb - to find, to encounter
comprender /kom.pɾenˈdeɾ/ B1	verb - to understand, to comprehend
amor /aˈmoɾ/ A1	noun - love
sentir /senˈtiɾ/ A2	verb - to feel
ilusión /i.luˈsjon/ B1	noun - hope, dream, illusion
vivir /biˈbiɾ/ A1	verb - to live
alma /ˈal.ma/ B1	noun - soul
sol /sol/ A1	noun - sun
gritar /ɡɾiˈtaɾ/ A2	verb - to shout, to yell
adorar /a.ðoˈɾaɾ/ B1	verb - to adore, to worship
voz /bos/ A1	noun - voice
perder /peɾˈðeɾ/ A2	verb - to lose
beso /ˈbe.so/ A1	noun - kiss
llevar /ʝeˈβaɾ/ A1	verb - to take, to carry
final /fiˈnal/ A2	noun - end
besar /beˈsaɾ/ A1	verb - to kiss
mar /maɾ/ A1	noun - sea
sueño /ˈsweɲo/ A2	noun - dream verb - I dream
oro /ˈo.ɾo/ A1	noun - gold
pasión /paˈsjon/ B1	noun - passion
inventar /im.benˈtaɾ/ B1	verb - to invent
soledad /so.leˈðað/ B1	noun - solitude, loneliness
reinventar /rei̯mbenˈtaɾ/ B2	verb - to reinvent
antigüedad /an̪.ti.ɣweˈðað/ B2	noun - antiquity, old age
amistad /a.misˈtað/ A2	noun - friendship
amigo /aˈmi.ɣo/ A1	noun - friend
locura /loˈku.ɾa/ B1	noun - madness, craziness
caminar /ka.miˈnaɾ/ A1	verb - to walk
tierra /ˈtje.ra/ A1	noun - earth, land

Key Grammar Structures

• Busco a alguien que me quiera ayudar

  ➔ Subjunctive mood in adjective clauses

  ➔ The phrase "que me quiera ayudar" uses the subjunctive "quiera" to express a desire or hypothetical situation.

• Para desnudar el alma a plena luz del sol

  ➔ Infinitive phrase expressing purpose

  ➔ The phrase "desnudar el alma" uses the infinitive to indicate the purpose or intention.

• Yo ya perdí toda ilusión

  ➔ Use of preterite tense to express completed past action

  ➔ The verb "perdí" is in the preterite tense, indicating a completed action of losing hope.

• Y me pueda entender

  ➔ Subjunctive mood in noun clauses expressing possibility

  ➔ The verb "pueda" is in the present subjunctive to express possibility or capacity in the subordinate clause.

• Yo seguiré buscando a alguien

  ➔ Future tense with 'seguir' + gerund to indicate ongoing action

  ➔ The phrase "seguiré buscando" combines the future tense of "seguir" with the gerund "buscando" to express a continuous action in the future.

• Yo seguiré buscando a alguien.

  ➔ Repeated use of the future tense with 'seguir' + gerund for emphasis on ongoing pursuit

  ➔ The repetition emphasizes the speaker's ongoing commitment to searching for someone using the same grammatical structure.