Cómo sería – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Alejandro Sanz, Manuel Turizo

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

Perdóname si te molesto, pero es que te andaba viendo

Forgive me if I'm bothering you, but I was just watching you

Ya vi tu foto de perfil, pero te ves mejor aquí conmigo

I've seen your profile picture, but you look better here with me

Yo no salí a buscarte y hoy te encuentro sin querer mintiendo

I didn't go out looking for you, and today I find you, unintentionally pretending

Se me hace raro verte así

It feels strange to see you like this

Indiferente, pero aquí me tienes y te quieres ir

Indifferent, but here you have me, and you want to leave

Probablemente, tú te engañas a ti misma

You're probably deceiving yourself

Sales con esta gente, pero no combinas

You go out with these people, but you don't fit in

No necesitas de eso, ven y yo te convenzo

You don't need that, come and I'll convince you

Si te vas conmigo, no tienes que mentir

If you come with me, you won't have to lie

Imagínate cómo sería

Just imagine how it would be

Si saliéramos todos los días de tu cama pa la mía

If we went out every day from your bed to mine

Si rompiéramos todas las reglas sin que lleguen policías

If we broke all the rules without the police showing up

Que no quede nada acá después

So nothing's left here afterward

Y que nos sobren ganas de volver

And we're left wanting to come back for more

Si me dejas empezarlo de una vez

If you let me start it right away

¿Cómo sería? (¿cómo sería?)

How would it be? (How would it be?)

¿Cómo sería?

How would it be?

Cómo sería esta noche si es que yo te toque

How would tonight be if I were to touch you

Más allá de lo que tú quieres, solo quiero conocer

Beyond what you want, I just want to get to know you

Escondes un espacio de tu vida que en la mía quedaría

You hide a space in your life that would fit perfectly in mine

Como en París, la Torre Eiffel

Like the Eiffel Tower in Paris

Tú estás pensando en tu futuro, yo en tú para siempre

You're thinking about your future, I'm thinking about you forever

Pero hay que comenzar por el presente

But we have to start with the present

Si la vida nos puso frente a frente

If life put us face to face

Fue para que supiéramos lo que se siente

It was so we'd know what it feels like

Probablemente, tú te engañas a ti misma

You're probably deceiving yourself

Sales con esta gente, pero no combina

You go out with these people, but you don't fit in

No necesitas de eso, ven y yo te convenzo

You don't need that, come and I'll convince you

Si te vas conmigo, no tienes que mentir

If you come with me, you won't have to lie

Imagínate cómo sería

Just imagine how it would be

Si saliéramos todos los días de tu cama pa la mía

If we went out every day from your bed to mine

Si rompiéramos todas las reglas sin que lleguen policías

If we broke all the rules without the police showing up

Que no quede na acá después

So nothing's left here afterward

Y que nos sobren ganas de volver

And we're left wanting to come back for more

Si me dejas, empezamos de una vez

If you let me, we'll start right away

Imagínate cómo sería

Just imagine how it would be

Si saliéramos todos los días de tu cama pa la mía

If we went out every day from your bed to mine

Si rompiéramos todas las reglas aunque lleguen policías

If we broke all the rules, even if the police show up

Que no quede nada acá después

So nothing's left here afterward

Y que nos sobren ganas de volver

And we're left wanting to come back for more

Si me dejas empezarlo de una vez

If you let me start it right away

¿Cómo sería?

How would it be?

¿Cómo sería?

How would it be?

¿Cómo sería?

How would it be?

Perdóname si te molesto, pero es que te andaba viendo

Forgive me if I'm bothering you, but I was just watching you

Ya vi tu foto de perfil

I've seen your profile picture

Pero te ves mejor aquí

But you look better here

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
molestar /molesˈtar/ A2	verb - to bother, to annoy, to disturb
mentir /menˈtiɾ/ A2	verb - to lie, to tell a falsehood
engañar /eŋɡaˈɲaɾ/ B1	verb - to deceive, to trick, to fool
combinar /kom.biˈnaɾ/ B1	verb - to combine, to match, to suit
convencer /kom.benˈθeɾ/ B1	verb - to convince, to persuade
imaginar /i.ma.xiˈnaɾ/ A2	verb - to imagine, to picture
romper /romˈpeɾ/ A2	verb - to break, to tear, to shatter
sobrar /soˈβɾaɾ/ B2	verb - to be left over, to be in excess, to have more than enough
esconder /es.konˈdeɾ/ B1	verb - to hide, to conceal
conocer /ko.noˈθeɾ/ A1	verb - to know (a person, place, or thing), to meet
perfil /peɾˈfil/ B1	noun - profile (social media, side view), outline
cama /ˈka.ma/ A1	noun - bed
regla /ˈre.ɣla/ A2	noun - rule, regulation; ruler (for drawing lines)
policía /po.liˈθi.a/ A2	noun - police (the institution); policeman/policewoman
ganas /ˈɡa.nas/ A2	noun - desire, eagerness, wish (often used in 'tener ganas de')
espacio /esˈpa.θjo/ A2	noun - space, room (as in area)
futuro /fuˈtu.ɾo/ A2	noun - future adjective - future
presente /pɾeˈsen.te/ A2	noun - present (time, gift) adjective - present, current, in attendance
indiferente /in.di.feˈɾen.te/ B1	adjective - indifferent, apathetic, unconcerned
raro /ˈra.ɾo/ A2	adjective - rare, uncommon; strange, odd, weird

Key Grammar Structures

• Perdóname si te molesto, pero es que te andaba viendo

  ➔ Periphrastic Imperfect with "andar" + gerund

  ➔ The construction "andar + gerundio" (to be doing something) is used to express an action that was ongoing or wandering/happening around a certain time in the past. It's similar to "estar + gerundio" but often implies a less fixed or more casual/iterative nature. Here, "te andaba viendo" means "I was looking at you around / casually."

• Se me hace raro verte así

  ➔ Impersonal expression "hacerse + adjective" with indirect object pronoun

  ➔ The phrase "se hacer + adjective" is an impersonal construction that means "it seems / feels + adjective to someone." The indirect object pronoun ("me" in this case) indicates who experiences the feeling. "Se me hace raro" means "It seems strange to me."

• Probablemente, tú te engañas a ti misma

  ➔ Reflexive verb with redundant reflexive pronoun for emphasis

  ➔ "Engañarse" is a reflexive verb (to deceive oneself). The phrase "a ti misma" is a redundant or emphatic reflexive pronoun. While "te engañas" already means "you deceive yourself," adding "a ti misma" strengthens the self-referential nature of the action, emphasizing that the deception is internal or self-inflicted.

• Imagínate cómo sería

  ➔ Imperative (reflexive verb) combined with the Conditional Simple

  ➔ "Imagínate" is the informal singular imperative form of the reflexive verb "imaginarse" (to imagine). "Cómo sería" uses the Conditional Simple (would be) to ask about a hypothetical or uncertain future outcome, perfectly setting up the song's central theme of what could happen.

• Si saliéramos todos los días de tu cama pa la mía

  ➔ Imperfect Subjunctive in a Type 2 Conditional Clause

  ➔ This is a second conditional (hypothetical or improbable) structure. The "si" clause uses the imperfect subjunctive ("saliéramos" - if we went out), which refers to an unreal or hypothetical situation in the present or future. The main clause (implied, "cómo sería") would then use the conditional simple.

• Si rompiéramos todas las reglas sin que lleguen policías

  ➔ "Sin que" + Subjunctive

  ➔ The conjunction "sin que" (without) always requires the subjunctive mood in the following verb because it expresses a condition or consequence that is either desired, feared, or hypothetical, rather than a factual event. Here, "sin que lleguen" means "without the police arriving."

• Que no quede nada acá después

  ➔ Subjunctive for desire, command, or exhortation

  ➔ When a clause starts with "Que" and is followed by a verb in the subjunctive mood (like "quede" from "quedar"), it often expresses a wish, a command, or an exhortation. It's a shortened form of "Espero que no quede..." or "Quiero que no quede...", meaning "May nothing be left here afterwards."

• Escondes un espacio de tu vida que en la mía quedaría

  ➔ Relative clause with the Conditional Simple

  ➔ This is a relative clause ("que en la mía quedaría") modifying "un espacio de tu vida." The verb "quedaría" is in the Conditional Simple, expressing what "would remain" or "would fit" in a hypothetical or imagined scenario within the speaker's life.