Heavens Gate – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: AXOLOTES MEXICANOS
• Album: Salu2

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the surreal world of Axolotes Mexicanos! Through 'Heavens Gate,' you can explore rich, metaphorical Spanish vocabulary and rhythmic phrasing, making it a perfect track for learners looking to master expressive and abstract language in a musical context.

[English]

If you leave

Don't ever come back

I will miss you

But I'll get over it

If you leave

I won't care

I'll recover

By the third anxiety attack

...

If you don't want to be with me

You don't have to lie to me

Did you really love me

When we first started dating?

Making up a thousand stories

Just to dodge the truth

You left with that cult

To never return again

Complicated strategies

And science fiction tales

You have fun like a child

Playing with my heart

They undermined your resistance

By eating porridge non-stop

A journey through the stars

With a tragic end

If you leave

Don't ever come back

I will miss you

But I'll get over it

If you leave

...

I won't care

I'll recover

By the third anxiety attack

It's hard for me to remember

When all of this began

You moved to California

To go die in a filthy mansion

I don't like your leader

Nor that whole castration thing

That cut they made on you

Makes you look much older

Mixing vodka and antimony

As a way to escape

No matter how much you convince yourself

It won't be the solution

39 idiots

You're all going to die

For following the teachings

Of Needles and Applewhite

If you leave

Don't ever come back

I will miss you

But I'll get over it

If you leave

I won't care

I'll recover

By the third anxiety attack

...

[Spanish]

Si te vas

No vuelvas jamás

Yo te echaré de menos

Pero lo podré superar

Si te vas

No me va a importar

Me recuperaré

Al tercer ataque de ansiedad

Si no quieres estar conmigo

No me tienes que mentir

¿De verdad que me querías

Cuándo empezamos a salir?

Inventando mil historias

Para esquivar la verdad

Te fuiste con esa secta

Para no volver jamás

Complicadas estrategias

Y cuentos de ciencia ficción

Como un niño te diviertes

Jugando con mi corazón

Minaron tu resistencia

Comiendo gachas sin parar

Un viaje por las estrellas

Con un trágico final

Si te vas

No vuelvas jamás

Yo te echaré de menos

Pero lo podré superar

Si te vas

No me va a importar

Me recuperaré

Al tercer ataque de ansiedad

Se me hace duro recordarlo

Cuando todo esto empezó

Te mudaste a California

A morir a una sucia mansión

No me gusta ni tu líder

Ni eso de la castración

Ese corte que te han hecho

Te hace mucho más mayor

Mezclar vodka y antimonio

Como forma de evasión

Por mucho que te convenzas

No será la solución

39 gilipollas

Todos la vais a palmar

Por seguir las enseñanzas

De Needles y de Applewhite

Si te vas

No vuelvas jamás

Yo te echaré de menos

Pero lo podré superar

Si te vas

No me va a importar

Me recuperaré

Al tercer ataque de ansiedad

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
jamás jamás A2	adverb - never
superar superar B1	verb - to overcome
ansiedad ansiedad B2	noun - anxiety
mentir mentir A2	verb - to lie
secta secta C1	noun - cult
estrategias estrategias B2	noun - strategies
resistencia resistencia B2	noun - resistance
trágico trágico B2	adjective - tragic
mansión mansión B1	noun - mansion
castración castración C2	noun - castration
evasión evasión C1	noun - evasion / escapism
solución solución A2	noun - solution
gilipollas gilipollas C1	noun / adjective - idiot / jerk
palmar palmar C2	verb - to kick the bucket / to die
enseñanzas enseñanzas B1	noun - teachings

Key Grammar Structures

• Si te vas, no vuelvas jamás.

  ➔ First Conditional + Negative Imperative

  ➔ "Si" followed by present indicative indicates a possible condition, while "no vuelvas" uses the imperative for a firm command.

• Yo te echaré de menos.

  ➔ Future Simple (Futuro Simple)

  ➔ "Echaré" is the future tense of "echar", used here to express a prediction about a future emotional state.

• Lo podré superar.

  ➔ Periphrastic construction (Modal verb + Infinitive)

  ➔ "Podré superar" combines the modal verb "poder" (future) with the infinitive "superar" to express ability.

• Si no quieres estar conmigo.

  ➔ Present Indicative in a conditional clause

  ➔ The verb "quieres" (second person singular) establishes a present condition that triggers the following actions.

• Inventando mil historias.

  ➔ Gerund (Gerundio)

  ➔ "Inventando" is used to describe an action happening simultaneously or as the manner of the main action.

• Te fuiste con esa secta.

  ➔ Preterite (Pretérito Indefinido)

  ➔ "Fuiste" is the preterite of "ir", marking a completed action in the past.

• Te mudaste a California.

  ➔ Reflexive verb in Preterite

  ➔ "Te mudaste" is the reflexive form of "mudar" (to move house), indicating a personal change.

• Todos la vais a palmar.

  ➔ Periphrastic future (Ir a + Infinitive)

  ➔ "Vais a palmar" uses "ir a" to express an imminent future action.