quimera – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Alba Reche
• Album: Quimera

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

Desdibujo el aire, me he olvidado de querer

I sketch the air, I've forgotten how to love

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Vuelvo a retocerme en tu lado de la cama

I return to lay on your side of the bed

Por si apareces con mis llaves

Just in case you appear with my keys

Te imagino sin dormir, leyendo las paredes

I imagine you awake, reading the walls

Borrando nombres que no fui

Erasing names that weren't mine

Te busco en los affaires como si fueras a volver

I look for you in affairs as if you’ll come back

Vuelvo a renombrarte en alguna hoja rota

I keep renaming you on some broken page

Desolvidando los dolores

Unforgetting the pain

Te imagino sin dormir, leyendo las paredes

I imagine you awake, reading the walls

Borrando nombres que no fui

Erasing names that weren't mine

Prendo el alquitrán

I light the tar

Por si apareces en el humo

In case you appear in the smoke

Los cristales nos empañan

The glass fogs us up

Los ojicos piden calma

Our eyes pleading for calm

Te imagino sin dormir, leyendo las paredes

I imagine you awake, reading the walls

Borrando nombres que no fui

Erasing names that weren't mine

Pensaba levantarme, hacerte un trono

I was thinking of rising up, making you a throne

Y quemarlo como a todos

And burning it like everything else

Es mi acabada despedida

This is my final goodbye

Guardaste la paz en mí

You kept peace inside me

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Me revienta el corazón, busco aire en el pulmón

My heart bursts, I seek air in my lungs

Te dejé mi inspiración

I left you my inspiration

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Prendo el alquitrán

I light the tar

Por si apareces en el humo

In case you appear in the smoke

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Los cristales nos empañan

The glass fogs us up

Los ojicos piden calma

Our eyes pleading for calm

Prendo el alquitrán

I light the tar

Por si apareces en el humo

In case you appear in the smoke

Los cristales nos empañan

The glass fogs us up

Los ojicos piden calma

Our eyes pleading for calm

Ah-ah-ay-ah (Ah-eh-ia)

Ah-ah-ay-ah (Ah-eh-ia)

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Ah-ay-ah (Ah-eh-ia)

Ah-ay-ah (Ah-eh-ia)

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Para ti, ¿pa' quién, si no?

For you, who else, if not?

People don't belong to people

People don't belong to people

'Course they do!

Of course they do!

I'm not gon' let anyone put me in a cage

I'm not gonna let anyone put me in a cage

I don't wanna put you in a cage, I wanna love you!

I don't wanna cage you, I want to love you!

(Put you in a cage, I wanna lo-)

(Put you in a cage, I wanna lo-)

-Ov, -ov (-Ov)

-Ov, -ov (-Ov)

Breeze through the glitter and shimmer of New york

Breeze through the glitter and shimmer of New York

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
aire /ˈai̯ɾe/ A1	noun - air
corazón /koɾaˈθon/ A1	noun - heart
dolor /doˈloɾ/ A2	noun - pain
paz /pas/ A2	noun - peace
llave /ˈʝaβe/ A2	noun - key
cama /ˈkama/ A2	noun - bed
humo /ˈumo/ A2	noun - smoke
cristal /kɾisˈtal/ B1	noun - glass
inspiración /inspiraˈθjon/ B1	noun - inspiration
quemar /keˈmaɾ/ B1	verb - to burn
olvidar /olβiˈðaɾ/ B1	verb - to forget
borrar /boˈraɾ/ B1	verb - to erase
despedida /despeˈðiða/ B2	noun - farewell
calma /ˈkalma/ B2	noun - calm
trono /ˈtɾono/ B2	noun - throne
afaire /aˈfaɪ̯ɾe/ C1	noun - affair