Culpa – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Javiera Mena

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

Es la hora cinco

It's five o'clock

El tiempo no tiene fin

Time has no end

Una fuerza oculta

A hidden force

Nos lleva con la música

Guides us with the music

Es la hora exacta

It's the exact hour

Escapémonos de acá

Let's run away from here

Agarra mi mano

Take my hand

Y entrégate a mi voluntad

And surrender to my will

Y que la vida

And let life

Nos libere

Set us free

De la maldita culpa

From this cursed guilt

Lejos del bien y lejos del mal

Far from good and evil

Lejos del bien

Far from good

...

...

Adivinaciones

Divinations

Te llegan al amanecer

Come to you at dawn

Tus mejores días

Your best days

Adentro de mi cuerpo

Inside my body

Tu verdad debe sentir

Your truth must be felt

Más allá del bien y el mal

Beyond good and evil

Escapemos, queremos

Let's escape, we want to

Entrégate a mi voluntad

Surrender to my will

Y que la vida

And let life

Nos libere

Set us free

De la maldita culpa

From this cursed guilt

Lejos del bien y lejos del mal

Far from good and evil

Vida mía

My love

Escapemos

Let's escape

De la maldita culpa

From this cursed guilt

Lejos del bien y lejos del mal

Far from good and evil

Lejos del mal

Far from evil

...

...

Lejos del bien, tu-uh-uh

Far from good, uh-uh

Lejos del mal, tu-uh-uh

Far from evil, uh-uh

Lejos del bien, oh-oh-oh

Far from good, oh-oh-oh

...

...

Lejos del mal

Far from evil

...

...

Lejos del bien

Far from good

...

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
hora /ˈo.ɾa/ A1	noun - hour
tiempo /ˈtjempo/ A1	noun - time
fuerza /ˈfweɾθa/ B1	noun - force
música /ˈmusika/ A1	noun - music
vida /ˈβi.ða/ A1	noun - life
culpa /ˈkul.pa/ B2	noun - guilt
escapar /es.kaˈpaɾ/ B1	verb - to escape
entregar /en.tɾeˈɣaɾ/ B1	verb - to deliver
verdad /beɾˈðad/ B1	noun - truth
mejor /meˈxoɾ/ A2	adjective - better
lejos /ˈlexos/ A2	adverb - far
mal /mal/ A2	adjective - bad
cuerpo /ˈkweɾ.po/ B1	noun - body
exacto /ekˈsak.to/ B2	adjective - exact
aquí /aˈki/ A1	adverb - here

Key Grammar Structures

• Es la hora cinco

  ➔ It is five o'clock

  ➔ The sentence uses **'ser'** to indicate time, which is common in Spanish for telling the hour.

• El tiempo no tiene fin

  ➔ Time has no end

  ➔ Uses **'tener'** in the present tense to express possession or existence of a quality.

• Nos lleva con la música

  ➔ It leads us with the music

  ➔ Uses **'llevar'** in the present tense with indirect object pronoun 'nos' and preposition 'con' to indicate leading or guiding with something.

• Y entrégate a mi voluntad

  ➔ And surrender to my will

  ➔ Uses the reflexive verb **'entregarse'** in imperative form (tú) with preposition **'a'** to express surrender or submission.

• De la maldita culpa

  ➔ Of the cursed guilt

  ➔ Uses the preposition **'de'** to indicate origin or possession of the noun phrase **'la maldita culpa'**.

• Lejos del bien y lejos del mal

  ➔ Far from good and far from evil

  ➔ Uses **'lejos de'** as a prepositional phrase to express distance or separation from a concept.

• Lejos del bien

  ➔ Far from good

  ➔ Constructed with **'lejos de'** to specify distance or separation from 'buen' (good).