Como Le Haces (Esas Mujeres) – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: José José

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the masterful romanticism of José José with this ballad. Listening to 'Como Le Haces (Esas Mujeres)' offers a powerful entry into Spanish language fluency, exposing you to rich, emotional vocabulary centered around love, longing, and complexity ('indeleble', 'espinas', 'olvidarlas'). The song's profound, rhetorical question about the difficulty of forgetting a deep love makes its Spanish lyrics both relatable and highly memorable for language learners.

[English]

Those women

So loved, so loving, so cherished

More important than anything in our lives

How do you do it when you want to forget them

...

Those women

Who take hold of your love in their own way

Who don’t ask but you want to give them everything

How do you do it when you want to forget them

...

They’re loves, they’re passions we feel

They’re the craziness and adventures we live through

They’re the laughter, the tears, and the pain

Those women

...

Those women

They’re the flowers in the garden of life

With colors, with fragrance, with thorns

With sweetness or bitterness around every corner

...

Those women

With the good and the bad in our story

Who never leave, always in our memory

How do you do it when you want to... forget them

They’re loves, they’re passions we feel

They’re the craziness and adventures we live through

They’re the laughter, the tears, and the pain

Those women

Those women

They’re the flowers in the garden of life

With colors, with fragrance, with thorns

With sweetness or bitterness around every corner

...

Those women

With the good and the bad in our story

Who never leave, always in our memory

How do you do it when you want to... forget them

...

[Spanish]

Esas mujeres

Tan amadas, tan amantes, tan queridas

Importantes como nada en nuestra vida

Como le haces cuando quieres olvidarlas

Esas mujeres

Que se adueñan de tu amor siempre a su modo

Que no piden pero quieres darle todo

Como le haces cuando quieres olvidarlas

Son amores, son pasiones que sentimos

Son locuras y aventuras que vivimos

Son la risa, son el llanto y el dolor

Esas mujeres

Esas mujeres

Son las flores del jardín que da la vida

Con colores, con perfume, con espinas

Con lo dulce o con lo amargo en cada esquina

Esas mujeres

Con lo bueno y con lo malo en nuestra historia

Que no salen, que están siempre en la memoria

Como le haces cuando quieres... olvidarlas

Son amores, son pasiones que sentimos

Son locuras y aventuras que vivimos

Son la risa, son el llanto y el dolor

Esas mujeres

Esas mujeres

Son las flores del jardín que da la vida

Con colores, con perfume, con espinas

Con lo dulce o con lo amargo en cada esquina

Esas mujeres

Con lo bueno y con lo malo en nuestra historia

Que no salen, que están siempre en la memoria

Como le haces cuando quieres... olvidarlas

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
mujeres muˈxeɾes A1	noun - women
amadas aˈmadas A2	adjective - loved
amantes aˈmantes A2	noun - lovers
queridas keˈɾidas A2	adjective - dear
importantes imporˈtantes A2	adjective - important
haces aˈthes A1	verb - you do
olvidarlas olβiˈðarlas A2	verb - to forget them
adueñan aˈðweɲan B1	verb - take possession of
pasiones paˈsiones A2	noun - passions
locuras loˈkuɾas A2	noun - craziness
aventuras aβenˈtuɾas A2	noun - adventures
flores ˈfloɾes A1	noun - flowers
colores koˈloɾes A1	noun - colors
perfume peɾˈfume A2	noun - perfume
espinas esˈpinas A2	noun - thorns
dulce ˈdulθe A1	adjective - sweet
amargo aˈmaɾɣo A2	adjective - bitter
memoria meˈmoɾja A2	noun - memory

Key Grammar Structures

• Esas mujeres / Tan amadas, tan amantes, tan queridas

  ➔ Adjectives in comparative form

  ➔ The adjectives 'amadas', 'amantes', and 'queridas' are in their comparative forms, emphasizing the intensity of the qualities attributed to 'esas mujeres'.

• Importantes como nada en nuestra vida

  ➔ Comparative construction with 'como'

  ➔ The phrase uses 'como' to compare the importance of 'esas mujeres' to 'nada', emphasizing their unparalleled significance.

• Como le haces cuando quieres olvidarlas

  ➔ Indirect object pronoun 'le'

  ➔ The pronoun 'le' is used as an indirect object, referring to the person being addressed, indicating the action is performed for them.

• Que se adueñan de tu amor siempre a su modo

  ➔ Reflexive verb 'adueñan'

  ➔ The verb 'adueñan' is reflexive, indicating that the subject ('esas mujeres') performs the action on itself, taking possession of 'tu amor'.

• Son la risa, son el llanto y el dolor

  ➔ Use of 'ser' to express essence

  ➔ The verb 'ser' is used to express the essence or inherent nature of 'esas mujeres' as 'la risa', 'el llanto', and 'el dolor'.