Muerte – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Natalia Lafourcade
• Album: De Todas Las Flores

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the poetic beauty of the Spanish language with 'Muerte' by Natalia Lafourcade. This song is a perfect way to learn evocative, spiritual vocabulary and the rhythmic nuances of Mexican folk music, all while exploring a deep and universal theme through a gentle, accessible melody.

[English]

I give thanks to death

For teaching me how to live

For inviting me out

To truly decipher my fate

Holding my hand tightly

Filling it with life

It's as if death protects me from evil

Because it holds me to the present

After my war has ended

Today I am reborn, grateful

After my war has ended

Today I am reborn

Grateful

I give thanks to the flowers

To the scent of jasmine

For inviting me to the garden

Where sorrows are wept

While I take in the liquors

Sacred to our Earth

The grief is finally laid to rest

And I surrender to joy

I might not know who I am

But falling, that terrifies me

I might not know who I am

But falling...

Oh, that truly terrifies me

Death

Because having looked death in the eye

It is that today I walk through life

With faith and a soul set ablaze

Death

Because having greeted death

It is that today I cherish the love

That is born within me, forever

Palm trees, cane fields

The beaches of Veracruz

Gave strength to the light I had lost in abundance

Into mineral dust

And stars, I was transformed

And the sky that I discovered

Today dazzles me with life

I danced so gratefully

That I offered my death to God

I danced so gratefully

That my death

I offered to God

Death

Because having looked death in the eye

It is that today I walk through life

With faith and a soul set ablaze

Death

Because having greeted death

It is that today I walk through life

With faith and a soul set ablaze

Death

Because having looked death in the eye

It is that today I walk through life

With faith and a soul set ablaze

Death

Because having greeted death

It is that today I cherish the love

That is born within me, forever

I danced, I danced

I danced so gratefully

That my death

I offered to God

I danced, I danced

I danced, I danced so gratefully

That my death

I offered to God

I danced, I danced

I danced so gratefully

That my death

To God, my death I offered

I give thanks to life

I give thanks to death

Lorenzo, my life, I cry out

I give thanks to death

For teaching me how to live

[Spanish]

Le doy gracias a la muerte

Por enseñarme a vivir

Por invitarme a salir

A descifrar bien mi suerte

Tomando mi mano fuerte

Llenándola de vida

Es como del mal me cuida

Porque al presente me aferra

Después de morir mi guerra

Hoy renazco agradecida

Después de morir mi guerra

Hoy renazco

Agradecida

Le doy gracias a las flores

Al aroma del jazmín

Por invitarme al jardín

Donde se lloran dolores

Tomándome los licores

Sagrados de nuestra Tierra

La pena por fin se entierra

Y a la alegría me doy

Podría no saber quién soy

Más no caerme, me aterra

Podría no saber quién soy

Más no caerme

Ay, eso sí que me aterra

Muerte

De haber mirado a la muerte

Es que hoy camino la vida

Con la fe y el alma encendida

Muerte

De saludar a la muerte

Es que hoy valoro al amor

Que nace en mí, para siempre

Palmeras, cañaverales

Las playas de Veracruz

Le dieron fuerza a la luz que había perdido a raudales

En polvo de minerales

Y estrellas, me convertí

Y el cielo que descubrí

Hoy me deslumbra de vida

Bailé tan agradecida

Que a Dios mi muerte ofrecí

Bailé tan agradecida

Que a Dios mi muerte

Le ofrecí

Muerte

De haber mirado a la muerte

Es que hoy camino la vida

Con la fe y el alma encendida

Muerte

De saludar a la muerte

Es que hoy camino la vida

Con la fe y el alma encendida

Muerte

De haber mirado a la muerte

Es que hoy camino la vida

Con la fe y el alma encendida

Muerte

De saludar a la muerte

Es que hoy valoro el amor

Que nace en mí, para siempre

Bailé, bailé

Bailé tan agradecida

Que a Dios mi muerte

Le ofrecí

Bailé, bailé

Bailé, bailé tan agradecida

Que a Dios mi muerte

Le ofrecí

Bailé, bailé

Bailé tan agradecida

Que a Dios mi muerte

A Dios mi muerte le ofrecí

Le doy gracias a la vida

Le doy gracias a la muerte

Lorenzo, vida mía, grito

Le doy gracias a la muerte

Por enseñarme a vivir

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
Muerte mwerte A1	noun - the end of the life of a person or organism
Descifrar desifrar B2	verb - to succeed in understanding or interpreting something
Renazco renasko C1	verb - to be born again
Agradecida agradeθida A2	adjective - feeling or showing gratitude
Aferra afera B2	verb - to grasp or hold onto something tightly
Jazmín xaθmin B2	noun - a shrub with white or yellow flowers
Sagrados saɣraðos B1	adjective - connected with God or dedicated to a religious purpose
Aterra atera B2	verb - to fill with terror
Cañaverales kaɲaβerales C2	noun - a piece of land where canes grow
Raudales rauðales C2	noun - abundance or large quantities
Deslumbra deslumbra B2	verb - to blind temporarily with bright light or admiration

Key Grammar Structures

• Le doy gracias a la muerte por enseñarme a vivir

  ➔ Gerund as object of preposition

  ➔ The infinitive "enseñarme" acts as the object of "por".

• Después de morir mi guerra, hoy renazco agradecida

  ➔ Prepositional phrase of time + Adjectival complement

  ➔ Use of "Después de" + infinitive to mark time, followed by an adjective describing the subject.

• Podría no saber quién soy

  ➔ Conditional tense

  ➔ "Podría" expresses a hypothetical scenario or possibility.

• Que la pena por fin se entierra

  ➔ Passive se / Impersonal se

  ➔ "se entierra" is used to indicate that the grief is being buried, focusing on the action rather than the agent.

• De haber mirado a la muerte, es que hoy camino la vida

  ➔ Perfect infinitive

  ➔ "haber mirado" indicates an action completed before the main verb.

• Que había perdido a raudales

  ➔ Past perfect (Pluscuamperfecto)

  ➔ "había perdido" denotes an action that occurred before another past action.

• En polvo de minerales y estrellas, me convertí

  ➔ Reflexive verb in Preterite

  ➔ "me convertí" shows a completed change of state regarding the subject.

• Bailé tan agradecida

  ➔ Adjective functioning as adverbial complement

  ➔ "agradecida" is an adjective that describes the subject's state while performing the action "bailé".