Llorar – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Lucero
• Album: Un Lucero en la México

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

Te miré llegar, ajá

I saw you arrive, ah

Me acerqué a tu vida y te dejaste amar

I got close to your life and you let yourself be loved

Y ahora resulta que te vas

And now it turns out you're leaving

Te entregué mi amor, ajá

I gave you my love, ah

Me hiciste dichosa y te hice un favor

You made me happy and I did you a favor

Y ahora me heredas el dolor

And now you leave me with the pain

...

...

¿Quién iba a pensar que un día me habías de abandonar?

Who would've thought that one day you'd leave me?

¿Quién?, ¿quién?

Who? Who?

¿Quién iba a pensar que un día por ti iba a llorar?

Who would've thought that one day I'd cry for you?

Llorar, llorar, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Cry, cry, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Llorar, llorar

Cry, cry

...

...

Te entregué mi amor, ajá

I gave you my love, ah

Me hiciste dichosa y te hice un favor

You made me happy and I did you a favor

Y ahora me heredas el dolor

And now you leave me with the pain

Te dejaste amar, ajá

You let yourself be loved, ah

Y te lo agradezco en vez de reprochar

And I thank you instead of blaming

Aunque hoy me inunde de llorar

Though today I flood in tears

¿Quién iba a pensar que un día me habías de abandonar?

Who would've thought that one day you'd leave me?

¿Quién?, ¿quién?

Who? Who?

¿Quién iba a pensar que un día por ti iba a llorar?

Who would've thought that one day I'd cry for you?

Llorar, llorar, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Cry, cry, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Llorar, ah-ah, ah, ah, ah-ah-ah

Cry, ah-ah, ah, ah, ah-ah-ah

Llorar

Cry

Llorar

Cry

Llorar

Cry

...

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
llegar /ʝeˈɣaɾ/ A2	verb - to arrive
dejarse /dexˈaɾse/ B1	verb - to let oneself
amar /aˈmaɾ/ A2	verb - to love
resultar /resulˈtaɾ/ B2	verb - to turn out to be
entregar /enteˈɣɾaɾ/ B2	verb - to deliver
heredar /eɾeˈðaɾ/ B2	verb - to inherit
dolor /doˈloɾ/ A2	noun - pain
abandonar /abandonˈaɾ/ B1	verb - to abandon, to leave behind
pensar /pensˈaɾ/ A2	verb - to think
llorar /ʝoˈɾaɾ/ A1	verb - to cry
amor /aˈmoɾ/ A1	noun - love

Key Grammar Structures

• Me acerqué a tu vida y te dejaste amar

  ➔ Preterite tense of "acerqué" (to approach), reflexive pronoun "te" + verb "dejaste" (to let, to allow)

  ➔ "Acerqué" is the first person singular preterite form of "acercar", meaning "to approach". "Te dejaste amar" uses reflexive verb "dejaste" combined with "te" to indicate that the subject allowed themselves to be loved.

• Y ahora resulta que te vas

  ➔ Present tense of "resulta" (to turn out), conjunction "y" (and), expression "ahora" (now)

  ➔ "Resulta" is the present tense form of " resultar " (to turn out or to be the case). "Y" is the coordinating conjunction linking clauses, and "ahora" means "now".

• ¿Quién iba a pensar que un día me habías de abandonar?

  ➔ Imperfect tense of "iba" (to go, to be going to), conditional "habías de" (you had to), subjunctive "abandonar" (to abandon)

  ➔ "Iba" is the imperfect tense of "ir" (to go) used here with "a" to express an ongoing or habitual action in the past. "Habías de" is a set expression meaning "you had to" or "you were meant to," followed by the infinitive "abandonar".

• ¿Quién iba a pensar que un día me habías de abandonar?

  ➔ As above: Imperfect tense of "iba" + "a" + infinitive "abandonar" to express future-in-the-past, conditional "habías de" indicating obligation or inevitability

  ➔ This grammatical structure expresses an action that was expected or destined to happen in the past, often with a sense of inevitability. "Iba" + "a" + infinitive is used to indicate a future-in-the-past meaning.