PENAS – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: SANDRO
• Album: SANDRO DE AMERICA

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

Nadie me daría

No one would give me

Dos días de vida

Two days of life

Por la forma en que encuentro hoy

For the way I feel today

Tengo la mirada

My gaze is filled with

De ansiedad vacía

Empty anxiety

Ya no hay alegría donde voy

There's no happiness where I go

Penas y penas y penas

Pain and pain and pain

Hay dentro de mí

Inside of me

Y ya no se irán

And they won't go away

Porque a mi lado tú no estás

Because you're not beside me

Te recordaré

I'll remember you

Como algo que fue

As something that was

Solo un sueño hermoso, nada más

Just a beautiful dream, nothing more

Si me perdonaras

If you forgave me

Si todo olvidaras

If you forgot everything

Si tu amor volviera junto a mí

If your love returned to me

Qué feliz sería

How happy I would be

Ya no lloraría

I wouldn't cry anymore

Solo viviría para ti

I would only live for you

Penas y penas y penas

Pain and pain and pain

Hay dentro de mí

Inside of me

Y ya no se irán

And they won't go away

Porque a mi lado tú no estás

Because you're not beside me

Te recordaré

I'll remember you

Como algo que fue

As something that was

Solo un sueño hermoso, nada más

Just a beautiful dream, nothing more

...

...

Penas y penas

Pain and pain

Hay dentro de mí

Inside of me

Y ya no se irán

And they won't go away

Porque a mi lado tú no estás

Because you're not beside me

Te recordaré

I'll remember you

Como algo que fue

As something that was

Solo un sueño hermoso, nada más

Just a beautiful dream, nothing more

Penas y penas y penas

Pain and pain and pain

Hay dentro de mí

Inside of me

Y ya no se irán

And they won't go away

Porque a mi lado tú no estás

Because you're not beside me

Te recordaré

I'll remember you

Como algo que fue

As something that was

Solo un sueño hermoso, nada más

Just a beautiful dream, nothing more

Penas y penas y penas

Pain and pain and pain

...

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
dar /dar/ A2	verb - to give
vida /ˈbi.ða/ A1	noun - life
encuentro /enˈkwen.tɾo/ B1	verb - to find
mirada /miˈɾa.ða/ A2	noun - gaze, look
ansiedad /ansi.eˈðað/ B2	noun - anxiety
alegría /aleˈɣɾi.a/ A2	noun - happiness, joy
pena /ˈpe.na/ A1	noun - sorrow, grief
sueño /ˈswe.ɲo/ A2	noun - dream
olvidar /olβiˈðaɾ/ B1	verb - to forget
amor /aˈmoɾ/ A1	noun - love
volver /bolˈβeɾ/ B1	verb - to return, to come back
llorar /ʝoˈɾaɾ/ B1	verb - to cry
vivir /biˈβiɾ/ A2	verb - to live

Key Grammar Structures

• Hay dentro de mí

  ➔ Present tense with 'hay' meaning 'there is' or 'there are'.

  ➔ It indicates the existence of feelings or objects inside, equivalent to 'there is/are' in English.

• Solo un sueño hermoso, nada más

  ➔ Use of 'nada más' meaning 'nothing more' or 'just'.

  ➔ It emphasizes that what was experienced was nothing more than a beautiful dream, nothing else.

• Si me perdonaras

  ➔ Use of the imperfect subjunctive tense to express hypothetical or contrary-to-fact situations.

  ➔ It describes a hypothetical situation, often translated as 'if you would forgive me' in English.

• Ya no se irán

  ➔ Future tense 'irán' from 'ir' meaning 'they will go', with 'ya no' indicating 'no longer'.

  ➔ It indicates that they will no longer go or happen in the future.

• De ansiedad vacía

  ➔ Prepositional phrase describing 'empty anxiety', 'de' indicating possession or composition.

  ➔ It describes a state of feeling anxious with no substance or relief, emphasizing emptiness.