Cómo Duele – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: José José

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Goodbye forever

You told me as you said goodbye

And I couldn’t even ask you

To think it over again

That our love could still be saved

That it was worth the struggle

For the sake of our love

Goodbye forever

So it wouldn’t hurt me so much

Because you knew how much

It would truly hurt me

Goodbye forever

And the farewell in your eyes

I realized you were leaving me

You weren’t planning to return

How it hurts

To know I’ve truly lost you now

That I’m part of the past and your forgetfulness

How it hurts, I know it well

How it hurts

To think of how much I love you and have loved you

To feel that I’m no longer loved in return

How it hurts, I know it well

...

Goodbye forever

So it wouldn’t hurt me so much

Because you knew how much

It would truly hurt me

Goodbye forever

And the farewell in your eyes

I realized you were leaving me

You weren’t planning to return

How it hurts

To know I’ve truly lost you now

That I’m part of the past and your forgetfulness

How it hurts, I know it well

How it hurts

To think of how much I love you and have loved you

To feel that I’m no longer loved in return

How it hurts, I know it well

...

[Spanish]

Hasta siempre

Me dijiste al despedirte

Y no pude ni pedirte

Que pensaras otra vez

Que lo nuestro estaba a tiempo de salvarse

Que valia complicarse

Por el bien de nuestro amor

Hasta siempre

Para no dolerme tanto

Porque tu sabias cuanto

En verdad me iba a doler

Hasta siempre

Y el adios en tu mirada

Me di cuenta me dejabas

No pensabas en volver

Como duele

El saber que de verdad ya te he perdido

Que hago parte del pasado y de tu olvido

Como duele yo lo sé

Como duele

El pensar cuanto te quiero y te he querido

El sentir que ya no soy correspondido

Como duele yo lo sé

Hasta siempre

Para no dolerme tanto

Porque tu sabias cuanto

En verdad me iba a doler

Hasta siempre

Y del adios en tu mirada

Me di cuenta me dejabas

No pensabas en volver

Como duele

El saber que de verdad ya te he perdido

Que hago parte del pasado y de tu olvido

Como duele yo lo sé

Como duele

El pensar cuanto te quiero y te he querido

El sentir que ya no soy correspondido

Como duele yo lo sé

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
dijiste diˈxiste B1	verb - you said
pedirte peˈðirte B1	verb - to ask you
salvarse salˈbaɾse B2	verb - to be saved
valía baˈlja B1	verb - it was worth
complicarse kompliˈkaɾse B2	verb - to get complicated
dolerme doˈleɾme B1	verb - to hurt me
sabías saˈβias A2	verb - you knew
dolor doˈloɾ A2	noun - pain
mirada miˈɾaða A2	noun - look, gaze
perder peɾˈdeɾ A2	verb - to lose
pasado paˈsaðo A2	noun - past
olvido olˈβiðo B1	noun - forgetfulness
quiero ˈkjeɾo A1	verb - I want
sentir senˈtiɾ A2	verb - to feel
correspondido koɾesponˈðiðo B2	adjective - reciprocated

Key Grammar Structures

• Me dijiste al despedirte

  ➔ Preterite tense

  ➔ The preterite tense is used to describe a completed action in the past, like 'you told me'.

• Que pensaras otra vez

  ➔ Subjunctive mood

  ➔ The subjunctive mood is used to express wishes, desires, or hypothetical situations, like 'that you would think again'.

• Que lo nuestro estaba a tiempo de salvarse

  ➔ Imperfect tense

  ➔ The imperfect tense describes an ongoing or habitual action in the past, like 'our relationship was in time to be saved'.

• Por el bien de nuestro amor

  ➔ Prepositional phrase

  ➔ A prepositional phrase indicates purpose or reason, like 'for the sake of our love'.

• Como duele yo lo sé

  ➔ Reflexive pronoun

  ➔ The reflexive pronoun 'yo' emphasizes the subject performing the action on themselves, like 'I know how it hurts me'.

• El sentir que ya no soy correspondido

  ➔ Infinitive as a noun

  ➔ The infinitive 'sentir' functions as a noun, describing the feeling of not being reciprocated.