O ME VOY O TE VAS – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Marco Antonio Solis

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

Vives

You live

Acentuando día a día mis defectos

accentuating my faults day by day

Resaltando lo que no me sale bien

Highlighting what I can't do right

Comparándome con todos

Comparing myself to everyone

Que debía ser como este y como aquel

Who should be like this one or that one

Vives

You live

Remendando, según tú, todas mis fallas

Patch up, as you say, all my flaws

Recordándome que no voy a aprender

Reminding me that I won't learn

Que me falta demasiado

That I still have so much to go

Para tener a mi lado a una mujer

To have a woman by my side

Llevo

I carry

Con tristeza en mi espalda tu desdicha

With sadness on my back, your misery

Creo

I believe

Que debemos por las buenas terminar

That we should end things on good terms

Si te hago tanto mal

If I hurt you so much

Mejor, déjame tranquilo

Better, leave me alone

Antes que se rompa el hilo que quedó

Before the thread that’s left breaks

Sosteniendo lo poco que se salvó

Holding on to what little was saved

De nuestro amor

Of our love

Si te hago tanto mal

If I hurt you so much

¿Por qué le das tantas vueltas?

Why do you keep turning it over in your mind?

Y te evitas ridicularizarme más

And avoid ridiculing me further

Para que esto se termine en santa paz

So that this can end in peace

O me voy o te vas

Either I leave or you go

Llevo

I carry

Con tristeza en mi espalda tu desdicha

With sadness on my back, your misery

Creo

I believe

Que debemos por las buenas terminar

That we should end things on good terms

Si te hago tanto mal

If I hurt you so much

Mejor, déjame tranquilo

Better, leave me alone

Antes que se rompa el hilo que quedó

Before the thread that’s left breaks

Sosteniendo lo poco que se salvó

Holding on to what little was saved

De nuestro amor

Of our love

Si te hago tanto mal

If I hurt you so much

¿Por qué le das tantas vueltas?

Why do you keep turning it over in your mind?

Y te evitas ridicularizarme más

And avoid ridiculing me further

Para que esto se termine en santa paz

So that this can end in peace

O me voy o te vas (eh)

Either I go or you go (hey)

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
acentuando /aθentuˈando/ B2	verb - accentuating, emphasizing
resaltando /resalˈtando/ B2	verb - highlighting, emphasizing
comparándome /kompaɾanˈdome/ B2	verb - comparing myself
remendando /remenˈdando/ B2	verb - patching up, mending
recordándome /rekordandome/ B2	verb - reminding myself
falta /ˈfalta/ A2	noun, verb - lack, missing / to lack, to be missing
salvó /salˈβo/ B1	verb - saved, preserved
rompa /ˈrompa/ B1	verb - breaks, breaks down
va /βa/ A1	verb - goes, is going
pago /ˈpago/ A2	verb - pay, pay for
mal /mal/ A2	adjective, noun - bad, evil / harm, evil
paz /pað/ A2	noun - peace
irse /ˈiɾse/ B1	verb - to leave, to go away

Key Grammar Structures

• Vives

  ➔ Present indicative tense for 'vives' (you live / you are living)

  ➔ Used to indicate an action happening in the present.

• Resaltando

  ➔ Present participle (gerund) form of 'resaltar' indicating an ongoing action.

  ➔ Expresses an ongoing or continuous action in the present.

• Terminar

  ➔ Infinitive verb form used after 'debe' (should), expressing obligation or suggestion.

  ➔ Used with modal verbs like 'debe' to indicate obligation or necessity.

• Se rompa

  ➔ Subjunctive mood in the present tense of 'romper' (to break), used after 'antes que' (before that).

  ➔ Expresses doubt, wish, or hypothetical situations following 'antes que'.

• Sosteniendo

  ➔ Present participle of 'sostener', indicating ongoing action (holding / supporting).

  ➔ Used to describe an ongoing action of holding or supporting.

• Le das vueltas

  ➔ Literal translation is 'you turn around it', using the present indicative of 'dar' + 'vueltas' (turns), meaning 'to give a lot of thought'.

  ➔ An idiomatic expression meaning to overthink or dwell on something.

• Que debía ser

  ➔ Imperfect subjunctive form of 'deber' (should/must), used to express hypothetical or past obligation.

  ➔ Expresses hypothetical, unreal, or polite past obligation or condition.