Hoy no me siento bien – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Alejandro Sanz, Grupo Frontera

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

Si me ves llorando

If you see me crying

No es que no sea feliz

It doesn't mean I'm unhappy

Tampoco es por amor

Nor is it because of love

A veces uno solo llora porque sí

Sometimes you just cry for the sake of it

Yo ya sufrí por alguien

I've already suffered for someone

Que solo decía mentiras nomás

Who only ever told lies

Me decía: "Buenos días"

They'd tell me: "Good morning"

Y tenía que salir pa ver si era verdad

And I'd have to go outside to see if it was true

Yo ya superé esto

I've already gotten over this

No estoy llorando por eso

I'm not crying because of that

Tú ya no me haces falta

I don't need you anymore

Y mañana se me pasa

And tomorrow it will pass

Pero hoy no me siento bien

But today I don't feel well

No quiero ni hablar con la gente

I don't even want to talk to people

Sentirse mal también está bien

It's also okay to feel bad

Porque no hay mal que dure pa siempre y menos tú

Because no bad feeling lasts forever, and especially not you

Hoy no me siento bien

Today I don't feel well

No quiero ni hablar con la gente

I don't even want to talk to people

Sentirse mal también está bien

It's also okay to feel bad

Porque no hay mal que dure pa siempre y menos tú

Because no bad feeling lasts forever, and especially not you

Que nunca me diste na de na, de na, de na

Because you never gave me anything at all, anything at all

¿Cómo te voy a extrañar si nunca diste na?

How am I going to miss you if you never gave anything?

Ese cien que tú me dabas parecía más un veinte

That hundred you gave me seemed more like a twenty

Yo creo que tú le dabas más amor a la gente

I think you gave more love to people

Que no te quería como te quería

Who didn't love you the way I loved you

Te echabas en cara, luego te reías

You'd throw it in my face, then you'd laugh

Ay, como yo no hay, busca por ahí

Oh, there's no one like me, go look around

Ya perdí mi tiempo buscando, niña, donde no hay

I already wasted my time looking, girl, where there's nothing

Como yo no hay, busca por ahí

There's no one like me, go look around

Y si me ven mal no es que no sea feliz

And if they see me down, it doesn't mean I'm unhappy

Pero hoy no me siento bien

But today I don't feel well

No quiero ni hablar con la gente

I don't even want to talk to people

Sentirse mal también está bien

It's also okay to feel bad

Porque no hay mal que dure pa siempre y menos tú

Because no bad feeling lasts forever, and especially not you

Hoy no me siento bien

Today I don't feel well

No quiero ni hablar con la gente

I don't even want to talk to people

Sentirse mal también está bien

It's also okay to feel bad

Porque no hay mal que dure pa siempre y menos tú

Because no bad feeling lasts forever, and especially not you

Que nunca me diste na de na, de na, de na

Because you never gave me anything at all, anything at all

¿Cómo te voy a extrañar si nunca diste na?

How am I going to miss you if you never gave anything?

Si me ves llorando

If you see me crying

No es que no sea feliz

It doesn't mean I'm unhappy

Tampoco es por amor

Nor is it because of love

A veces uno solo llora porque sí

Sometimes you just cry for the sake of it

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
llorar /ʎoˈɾaɾ/ A2	verb - to cry, to shed tears
feliz /feˈliθ/ A1	adjective - happy
amor /aˈmoɾ/ A1	noun - love
sufrir /suˈfɾiɾ/ B1	verb - to suffer, to endure
mentira /menˈtiɾa/ B1	noun - lie (false statement)
verdad /beɾˈðað/ B1	noun - truth
superar /supeˈɾaɾ/ B2	verb - to overcome, to surmount, to get over
falta /ˈfalta/ B1	noun - lack, absence idiom (part of verb phrase) - to be needed, to be missed (in 'hacer falta')
sentir /senˈtiɾ/ A2	verb - to feel, to sense
bien /bjén/ A1	adverb - well, correctly adjective - good, fine, healthy noun - good (moral or general benefit)
mal /mal/ A1	adverb - badly, poorly adjective - bad, ill, wrong noun - evil, harm, misfortune, bad thing/situation
durar /duˈɾaɾ/ B1	verb - to last, to endure, to take (time)
extrañar /eks.tɾaˈɲaɾ/ B1	verb - to miss (someone or something)
dar /daɾ/ A1	verb - to give, to provide
parecer /paɾeˈθeɾ/ A2	verb - to seem, to appear, to look like
gente /ˈxénte/ A1	noun - people
tiempo /ˈtjémpo/ A1	noun - time
reír /reˈiɾ/ A2	verb - to laugh
niña /ˈniɲa/ A1	noun - girl, child (female)

Key Grammar Structures

• No es que no sea feliz

  ➔ Subjunctive mood in negative clauses

  ➔ The phrase "no es que" followed by the subjunctive verb ("sea") indicates that the speaker is denying a reason or stating that something is not the case. It's used to express doubt, denial, or a non-fact. Here, it means "It's not that I'm not happy."

• Yo ya sufrí por alguien

  ➔ Preterite Tense (Simple Past)

  ➔ The "Preterite Tense" ("sufrí") is used to describe a completed action in the past at a specific point in time. The word "ya" (already) emphasizes that this action is finished and done with. It means "I already suffered for someone."

• Me decía: "Buenos días" Y tenía que salir pa ver si era verdad

  ➔ Imperfect Tense for habitual actions / Informal shortening

  ➔ The "Imperfect Tense" ("decía", "tenía", "era") is used to describe past actions that were habitual, ongoing, or to set a scene. It implies repetition or continuity in the past. "Pa" is an informal short form of "para" (to / in order to).

• mañana se me pasa

  ➔ Reflexive verb with Dative of Interest / Future Simple

  ➔ "Se" is a reflexive pronoun here, indicating the action affects the subject (the feeling passes itself). "Me" is an indirect object pronoun (often called dative of interest) indicating that the action happens *to me* or *for my benefit/detriment*. "Pasa" is in the simple future. It means "tomorrow it (the bad feeling) will pass for me / I'll get over it."

• Sentirse mal también está bien

  ➔ Reflexive infinitive as subject / Impersonal expressions

  ➔ "Sentirse" is a reflexive infinitive (to feel oneself) acting as the subject of the sentence, meaning "to feel bad". This construction is used impersonally to express a general truth or concept. "Está bien" means "is okay / is fine".

• Porque no hay mal que dure pa siempre

  ➔ Impersonal 'hay' / Subjunctive in relative clauses after negative antecedents

  ➔ "No hay" means "there isn't/there aren't". The relative clause "que dure pa siempre" uses the "subjunctive" verb ("dure") because the antecedent ("mal" - evil/badness) is negated and therefore uncertain or non-existent in the speaker's view. "Pa" is an informal short form of "para". It means "Because there's no bad thing that lasts forever."

• Que nunca me diste na de na, de na, de na

  ➔ Negative Adverb 'nunca' / Informal 'na' / Repetition for emphasis

  ➔ "Nunca" means "never". "Na" is an informal, colloquial short form of "nada" (nothing). The repetition "de na, de na, de na" is used for strong emphasis, meaning "absolutely nothing at all" or "not one single thing".

• ¿Cómo te voy a extrañar si nunca diste na?

  ➔ Periphrastic Future (Ir a + infinitive) / Conditional clause

  ➔ "Voy a extrañar" is the periphrastic future, equivalent to "I am going to miss". It expresses a future action or intention. "Si nunca diste na" introduces a conditional clause ("if you never gave anything"). "Na" is informal for "nada".

• Ese cien que tú me dabas parecía más un veinte

  ➔ Imperfect Tense / Comparative 'más'

  ➔ The "Imperfect Tense" ("dabas", "parecía") is used to describe an ongoing or habitual past action ("you used to give") and a past description ("it used to seem"). "Más" is used for comparison, meaning "more than" or "rather like". The phrase implies that what was presented as a "hundred" felt more like a "twenty".

• Como yo no hay

  ➔ Impersonal 'hay' with comparison / Ellipsis

  ➔ "No hay" means "there isn't/there aren't". Combined with "como yo" (like me), it literally means "there isn't like me", which implies "there's no one like me" or "no one like me exists". The full phrase would be "no hay nadie como yo," but "nadie" (no one) is often omitted in informal speech.