Llegaste Tú – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: JESSE, JOY

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

Hundida yo estaba

I was sunk

Ahogada en soledad

Drowning in solitude

Mi corazón lloraba

My heart was crying

De un vacío total

From a total emptiness

Todo lo intenté

I tried everything

Por dondequiera te busqué

I searched for you everywhere

Eras tú, mi necesidad

It was you, my necessity

Muy triste y desolada

Very sad and desolate

Ya no pude soportar

I could no longer bear it

Más desesperada

More desperate

Era imposible de estar

It was impossible to be

Todo lo intenté

I tried everything

Por dondequiera te busqué

I searched for you everywhere

Eras tú, mi necesidad

It was you, my necessity

Alcé mi rostro y...

I lifted my face and...

Llegaste tú

You arrived

Y todo cambió

And everything changed

Llegaste tú

You arrived

La esperanza triunfó

Hope triumphed

Llegaste tú

You arrived

Volví a nacer

I was reborn

...

...

Por tanto tiempo quise

For so long I wanted

Encontrar la solución

To find the solution

A ese gran vacío

To that great emptiness

Que llevaba en mi interior, oh

That I carried inside, oh

Todo lo intenté

I tried everything

Por dondequiera te busqué

I searched for you everywhere

Eras tú, mi necesidad

It was you, my necessity

Alcé mi rostro y...

I lifted my face and...

Llegaste tú

You arrived

Y todo cambió

And everything changed

Llegaste tú

You arrived

La esperanza triunfó

Hope triumphed

Llegaste tú

You arrived

Volví a nacer

I was reborn

...

...

Llegaste tú

You arrived

Y todo cambió

And everything changed

Llegaste tú

You arrived

La esperanza triunfó

Hope triumphed

Llegaste tú

You arrived

Volví a nacer

I was reborn

...

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
corazón /koɾaˈson/ A2	noun - heart
vacío /baˈβi.o/ B1	noun - void, emptiness adjective - empty
lloraba /ʝoˈɾaβa/ A2	verb - was crying
intenté /in.tenˈte/ B2	verb - tried, attempted
busqué /βusˈke/ B1	verb - searched for, looked for
necesidad /neseθiˈðað/ A2	noun - necessity, need
esperanza /es.peˈɾanθa/ B1	noun - hope
triunfó /tɾi.umˈfo/ B2	verb - triumphed, succeeded
volví /bolˈβi/ A2	verb - returned, came back
nacer /naˈseɾ/ B1	verb - to be born
cambió /kamˈβio/ B2	verb - changed, altered

Key Grammar Structures

• Hundida yo estaba

  ➔ Past Imperfect of 'estar' with adjective agreement and subject pronoun emphasis.

  ➔ The imperfect tense ('estaba') describes a state or condition in the past. 'Hundida' is an adjective agreeing in gender and number with 'yo' (female, singular), meaning 'sunken' or 'drowned'. The inclusion of 'yo' emphasizes the subject.

• De un vacío total

  ➔ Preposition 'de' expressing origin/description with adjective.

  ➔ 'De' indicates the source or nature of the emptiness ('vacío'). 'Total' is an adjective describing the emptiness.

• Por dondequiera te busqué

  ➔ Use of 'dondequiera' (everywhere) with a past tense verb and object pronoun.

  ➔ 'Dondequiera' means 'everywhere'. 'Te' is the object pronoun (you) that receives the action of the verb 'busqué' (I looked for).

• Eras tú, mi necesidad

  ➔ Past Imperfect of 'ser' used for description or identification, with possessive adjective.

  ➔ 'Eras' is the imperfect tense of 'ser' (to be), used here to identify what was the speaker's need. 'Mi necesidad' (my need) uses the possessive adjective 'mi'.

• Ya no pude soportar

  ➔ 'Poder' in preterite (pude) denoting completed action, negation with 'no', and infinitive.

  ➔ 'Pude' is the preterite form of 'poder' (to be able to), indicating the speaker reached a point where they could no longer endure. 'No' negates the ability, and 'soportar' (to endure) is the infinitive.

• Era imposible de estar

  ➔ Impersonal construction with 'ser' + adjective + 'de' + infinitive.

  ➔ This structure expresses a general impossibility regarding a state of being. It's not specifically tied to a person. 'Estar' is used as an infinitive after 'de'.

• Alcé mi rostro y...

  ➔ Preterite tense (Alcé) expressing a completed action, possessive adjective (mi), and coordinating conjunction (y).

  ➔ 'Alcé' is the preterite of 'alzar' (to raise), indicating a completed action in the past. 'Mi rostro' (my face) uses the possessive adjective 'mi'. 'Y' is a coordinating conjunction connecting this clause to what follows.

• Volví a nacer

  ➔ Periphrasis with 'volver a' + infinitive, expressing repetition.

  ➔ 'Volver a' plus an infinitive means 'to do something again'. Here, it means 'to be born again'.