Como la Flor – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Ángela Aguilar
• Album: Baila esta Cumbia

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

Yo sé que tienes un nuevo amor

I know you have a new love

Sin embargo, te deseo lo mejor

But still, I wish you the best

Si en mí no encontraste felicidad

If you didn’t find happiness in me

Tal vez alguien más te la dará

Maybe someone else will give it to you

Como la flor (como la flor)

Like the flower (like the flower)

Con tanto amor (con tanto amor)

With so much love (with so much love)

Me diste tú

That you gave me

Se marchitó

It withered away

Me marcho hoy (hoy)

I'm leaving today (today)

Yo sé perder

I know how to lose

Pero, ah-ah, ay, ¡cómo me duele!

But ah-ah, oh, how it hurts!

Ah-ah, ay, ¡cómo me duele!

Ah-ah, oh, how it hurts!

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Si vieras cómo duele perder tu amor

If you only knew how much it hurts to lose your love

Con tu adiós te llevas mi corazón

With your goodbye, you take my heart

No sé si pueda volver a amar

I don’t know if I can love again

Porque te di todo el amor que pude dar

Because I gave you all the love I had to give

Como la flor (como la flor)

Like the flower (like the flower)

Con tanto amor (con tanto amor)

With so much love (with so much love)

Me diste tú

That you gave me

Se marchitó

It withered away

Me marcho hoy (hoy)

I'm leaving today (today)

Yo sé perder

I know how to lose

Pero, ah-ah, ay, ¡cómo me duele!

But ah-ah, oh, how it hurts!

Ah-ah, ay, ¡cómo me duele!

Ah-ah, oh, how it hurts!

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Como la flor (como la flor)

Like the flower (like the flower)

Con tanto amor (con tanto amor)

With so much love (with so much love)

Me diste tú

That you gave me

Se marchitó

It withered away

Me marcho hoy (hoy)

I'm leaving today (today)

Yo sé perder

I know how to lose

Pero, ah-ah, ay, ¡cómo me duele!

But ah-ah, oh, how it hurts!

Ah-ah, ay, ¡cómo me duele!

Ah-ah, oh, how it hurts!

Ah-ah, ay, ¡cómo me duele!

Ah-ah, oh, how it hurts!

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
amor /aˈmoɾ/ A2	noun - love
felicidad /feliθiˈðað/ B1	noun - happiness
dulce /ˈdulθe/ A2	adjective - sweet
hoja /ˈoxa/ A2	noun - leaf
marchitar /maɾtʃiˈtaɾ/ B2	verb - to wither
doler /doˈleɾ/ B2	verb - to hurt
perder /peɾˈðeɾ/ A2	verb - to lose
pueblo /ˈpweβlo/ A2	noun - people, town
corazón /koraˈθon/ A2	noun - heart
mundo /ˈmundo/ A2	noun - world
sol /sol/ A1	noun - sun
luz /luθ/ A1	noun - light

Key Grammar Structures

• Yo sé que tienes un nuevo amor

  ➔ Present tense to express current knowledge.

  ➔ The phrase "Yo sé" means "I know," indicating current awareness.

• Si en mí no encontraste felicidad

  ➔ Conditional clause to express hypothetical situations.

  ➔ The phrase "Si en mí no encontraste" means "If you did not find in me," indicating a hypothetical scenario.

• Como la flor (como la flor)

  ➔ Simile to compare feelings to a flower.

  ➔ The phrase "Como la flor" means "Like the flower," suggesting fragility and beauty.

• Con tanto amor (con tanto amor)

  ➔ Prepositional phrase to indicate the manner of giving.

  ➔ The phrase "Con tanto amor" means "With so much love," indicating the depth of feeling.

• Me marcho hoy (hoy)

  ➔ Present tense to indicate immediate action.

  ➔ The phrase "Me marcho hoy" means "I leave today," indicating a decision made in the present.

• Pero, ah-ah, ay, ¡cómo me duele!

  ➔ Exclamatory sentence to express strong emotion.

  ➔ The phrase "¡cómo me duele!" means "how it hurts me!" expressing deep sorrow.

• No sé si pueda volver a amar

  ➔ Subjunctive mood to express doubt or uncertainty.

  ➔ The phrase "No sé si pueda" means "I don't know if I can," indicating uncertainty about future feelings.