Como Te Echo De Menos – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Alejandro Sanz

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the heartfelt world of Alejandro Sanz's "Como Te Echo De Menos", a song that beautifully encapsulates the pain of longing and the struggle to forget a cherished love. Through vivid metaphors and emotional depth, this song offers a poignant lesson in expressing the complexities of missing someone in Spanish, enhancing your vocabulary and emotional understanding of the language.

[English]

There's a child that lives in me

Fighting to have you

And relives moments

From long ago

And it makes me think

Confusing reality, oh

Forcing me to listen, yeah-eh

Your voice saying from afar

How much I miss you

I can't take it anymore

Why do you pull away, uh-uh

What's hard for me to understand

That even though you're part of yesterday

It's no use for you to bury your head in my sweater, no, no, no, no

What's hard for you to understand

Even though you're part of yesterday

I get desperate, because I've suffered it too

That in this time without seeing each other

How much I've missed you, yeah-eh

You kiss me and I sink, and I know

That no one in this world would understand

Why we want to go back, woah, ha

...

Losing a little more with each moment, oh

Fighting to have you until the end, yeah-eh

I keep hearing from afar

How much I miss you

What force could it be

That still unites us

What's hard for you to understand

That even though you're part of yesterday

It's no use for you to bury your head in my sweater, no, no, no

What's hard for me to understand

That even though you're part of yesterday

I get desperate, because I've suffered it too

That in this time without seeing each other

How much I've missed you, yeah-eh

You kiss me and I sink, and I know

That no one in this world would understand

Why we want to go back, woah

You kiss me and I sink, and I know

That no one in this world would understand, woah

...

Why we want to go back

...

[Spanish]

Existe un niño que vive en mí

Luchando por tenerte

Y revive momentos

Lejanos ya

Y me hace pensar

Confundiendo realidad, oh

Obligándome a escuchar, yeah-eh

Tu voz diciendo de lejos

Cómo te echo de menos

No puedo más

Porqué te alejas, uh-uh

Lo que me cuesta comprender

Que aunque eres parte del ayer

No me vale que hundas tu cabeza en mi jersey, no, no, no, no

Lo que te cuesta comprender

Aunque eres parte del ayer

Me desespero, que también yo lo he sufrido

Que en este tiempo sin vernos

Cómo te he echado de menos, yeah-eh

Me besas y me hundo y sé

Que nadie en este mundo entendería

Porqué queremos volver, woah, ha

Perdiendo a cada instante un poco más, oh

Luchando por tenerte hasta el final, yeah-eh

Sigo escuchando de lejos

Cómo te echo de menos

Qué fuerza será

La que aún nos une

Lo que te cuesta comprender

Que aunque eres parte del ayer

No me vale que hundas tu cabeza en mi jersey, no, no, no

Lo que me cuesta comprender

Que aunque eres parte del ayer

Me desespero, que también yo lo he sufrido

Que en este tiempo sin vernos

Cómo te he echado de menos, yeah-eh

Me besas y me hundo y sé

Que nadie en este mundo entendería

Porqué queremos volver, woah

Me besas y me hundo y sé

Que nadie en este mundo entendería, woah

Porqué queremos volver

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
luchar /luˈtʃaɾ/ B1	verb - to fight, to struggle
revivir /reβiˈβiɾ/ B2	verb - to relive, to revive, to come back to life
lejano /leˈxano/ B1	adjective - distant, far-off
confundir /konfunˈdiɾ/ B1	verb - to confuse, to mix up, to mistake (one for another)
realidad /realaˈðað/ A2	noun - reality
obligar /oβliˈɣaɾ/ B1	verb - to oblige, to force, to compel
echar /ˈetʃaɾ/ B1	verb - to miss (someone/something), to long for (as in 'echar de menos')
alejar /aleˈxaɾ/ B1	verb - to move away, to distance (oneself)
costar /kosˈtaɾ/ B1	verb - to be difficult, to be hard (for someone)
comprender /kompɾenˈdeɾ/ B1	verb - to understand, to comprehend
ayer /aˈʝeɾ/ A1	noun - yesterday; the past (in general)
valer /baˈleɾ/ B1	verb - to be worth, to be useful, to be valid
hundir /unˈdiɾ/ B2	verb - to sink, to bury, to plunge
desesperar /desespeˈɾaɾ/ B2	verb - to despair, to lose hope, to exasperate (someone)
sufrir /suˈfɾiɾ/ B1	verb - to suffer, to endure, to undergo
entender /entenˈdeɾ/ A2	verb - to understand, to comprehend
querer /keˈɾeɾ/ A1	verb - to want, to love, to wish
volver /bolˈβeɾ/ A1	verb - to return, to come back, to turn around
perder /peɾˈðeɾ/ A1	verb - to lose, to miss (an opportunity)
unir /uˈniɾ/ B1	verb - to unite, to join, to link

Key Grammar Structures

• Luchando por tenerte

  ➔ Gerund + por + Infinitive (Purpose)

  ➔ "Luchando" is a gerund, indicating an ongoing action. The construction "por + infinitive" ("por tenerte") expresses the purpose or reason for that action, meaning "fighting in order to have you."

• Obligándome a escuchar

  ➔ Gerund + Object Pronoun + a + Infinitive

  ➔ "Obligando" is a gerund. The object pronoun "-me" indicates "me." Verbs like "obligar" (to oblige/force) often require the preposition "a" before an infinitive ("a escuchar") to specify the action someone is obliged or forced to do.

• Lo que me cuesta comprender

  ➔ Lo que (Nominalizer) + costar (Impersonal Verb)

  ➔ "Lo que" functions as a nominalizer, meaning "what" or "that which." "costar" is an impersonal verb used to express the difficulty or cost of something, often with an indirect object pronoun (like "me"), meaning "what is difficult for me to understand."

• Que aunque eres parte del ayer

  ➔ Aunque (Concessive Conjunction) + Indicative

  ➔ "Aunque" means "although" or "even though." When followed by the indicative mood ("eres"), it indicates that the speaker considers the concession to be a fact or a certain reality, despite the contrasting information.

• No me vale que hundas tu cabeza en mi jersey

  ➔ Impersonal Expression + que + Subjunctive

  ➔ "No me vale" is an impersonal expression meaning "it's not useful/it doesn't work for me" or "I don't find it acceptable." When followed by "que" and expressing a judgment or opinion about someone else's action, it requires the subjunctive mood ("hundas").

• que también yo lo he sufrido

  ➔ Present Perfect (haber + Past Participle)

  ➔ "he sufrido" is the present perfect tense ("I have suffered"). It connects a past action or experience ("sufrir") to the present moment, indicating its relevance, continued effect, or that it occurred within a time frame that includes the present.

• Que en este tiempo sin vernos

  ➔ Sin + Infinitive (Negation of Action)

  ➔ The preposition "sin" (without) followed directly by an infinitive ("vernos" - to see each other) is a common structure in Spanish. It indicates the absence or negation of an action, meaning "without us seeing each other."

• Qué fuerza será La que aún nos une

  ➔ Future Simple (será) + La que (Relative Pronoun)

  ➔ "será" is the simple future tense, used here not for a future event, but to express speculation or probability about the present ("what force could it be that still unites us?"). "La que" functions as a relative pronoun, meaning "that which" or "the one that," referring to "fuerza."

• Que nadie en este mundo entendería

  ➔ Conditional Simple (entendería) + Negative Subject

  ➔ "entendería" is the simple conditional tense ("would understand"), typically used for hypothetical situations, possibilities, or polite requests. "nadie" (nobody/no one) is a negative subject that requires the verb to be in the singular form and negates the entire clause.