El Alumno – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Joss Favela, Jessi Uribe

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

Cantale bonito mi Jessi Uribe

Sing it beautifully, my Jessi Uribe

Joss. que bonita inspiración

Joss, what a beautiful inspiration

Quise tomarme unos tragos

I wanted to have a few drinks

Para sacarme tú amor

To forget your love

Pero me di cuenta pronto

But I realized soon

Que no era la solución

That it wasn't the solution

Y entonces quise enredarme en los brazos de otra

And then I wanted to get tangled in the arms of another

A ver si cambiaba un poquito la cosa

To see if things would change a little

Y resulta, que no

And it turns out, that it didn't

Tampoco me funcionó

It didn't work for me either

Busqué los remedios caseros las hierbas

I looked for home remedies, the herbs

Las pócimas blancas y algunos enredos

The white potions and some tricks

De trucos baratos que solo me hicieron, extrañarte más

Of cheap tricks that only made me miss you more

Y entonces tú como le haces

And then how do you do it

Que no te veo llorar

That I don't see you cry

A mí se me hace que nunca

It seems to me that you never

Nunca me quisiste tanto

Never loved me that much

Tal vez nos dimos mil besos

Maybe we shared a thousand kisses

Y solo a mí me gustaron

And only I liked them

Lo digo por que olvidarme

I say this because forgetting you

A tí no te está, costando

Is not costing you

Y a mí se me hace que fuimos

And it seems to me that we were

Solo un amor pasajero

Just a fleeting love

Tú solamente jugando

You were just playing

Y yo queriéndote en serio

And I was loving you seriously

Pero así fueron las cosas

But that's how things were

Ya lo pasado, pasado

What's past is past

De los errores se aprende

You learn from mistakes

Y vaya, que me has enseñado

And boy, have you taught me

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A mí se me hace que nunca

It seems to me that you never

Nunca me quisiste tanto

Never loved me that much

Tal vez nos dimos mil besos

Maybe we shared a thousand kisses

Y solo a mí me gustaron

And only I liked them

Lo digo por que olvidarme

I say this because forgetting you

A tí no te está, costando

Is not costing you

Y a mí se me hace que fuimos

And it seems to me that we were

Solo un amor pasajero

Just a fleeting love

Tú solamente jugando

You were just playing

Y yo queriéndote en serio

And I was loving you seriously

Pero así fueron las cosas

But that's how things were

Ya lo pasado pasado

What's past is past

De los errores se aprende

You learn from mistakes

Y vaya que me has enseñado

And boy, have you taught me

De los errores se aprende

You learn from mistakes

Y este alumno está, graduado

And this student is graduated

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
inspiración /inspiraˈsjon/ B1	noun - inspiration
amor /aˈmor/ A1	noun - love
besos /ˈbesos/ A2	noun - kisses
solución /soluˈsjon/ B1	noun - solution
errores /eˈrores/ B1	noun - errors
jugar /xuˈɣar/ A1	verb - to play
extrañar /ekstraˈɲaɾ/ B1	verb - to miss
costar /kosˈtaɾ/ B1	verb - to cost
enredar /enreˈðar/ B2	verb - to entangle
cambiar /kamˈbiar/ A2	verb - to change
pasajero /pasaˈxeɾo/ B2	adjective - temporary, fleeting
graduado /ɡraˈðwado/ B2	adjective - graduated
enseñar /enseˈñar/ B1	verb - to teach

Key Grammar Structures

• Quise tomarme unos tragos

  ➔ Simple past tense (preterite) to express a completed action.

  ➔ The phrase "Quise" indicates a desire in the past.

• Y resulta, que no

  ➔ Use of conjunctions to connect clauses.

  ➔ The word "y" connects two ideas, indicating a continuation.

• Busqué los remedios caseros

  ➔ Use of the simple past tense to describe a search.

  ➔ The verb "Busqué" indicates an action that was completed in the past.

• A mí se me hace que nunca

  ➔ Impersonal constructions to express opinions.

  ➔ The phrase "A mí se me hace" indicates a personal opinion.

• De los errores se aprende

  ➔ Passive voice to indicate that something is learned from mistakes.

  ➔ The phrase emphasizes the importance of learning from past mistakes.

• Y este alumno está, graduado

  ➔ Present tense to indicate a current state.

  ➔ The phrase "está graduado" indicates that the subject has achieved a status.