Tanto La Queria – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Andy & Lucas
• Album: En Su Salsa

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

¿Por qué eres tan hermosa y, a la vez, tan difícil?

Why are you so beautiful and, at the same time, so difficult?

¿Por qué la vida pasa y pasa y te quiero a mi vera?

Why does life go by and I want you by my side?

Si me trataste como a un juguete sucio y abandonado

If you treated me like a dirty and abandoned toy

Si no comprendes que el amar es algo más que besarnos

If you don't understand that loving is more than just kissing

Envidio a todo aquel que el amor ha encontrado

I envy everyone who has found love

Que lo mío no es ir de flor en flor, que de eso ya me he cansado

Mine is not to go from flower to flower, I'm tired of that

Sólo quería adornar las noches con tu cara morena

I just wanted to adorn the nights with your dark face

Y decirte que hay corazones que no huyen de la tormenta

And tell you that there are hearts that don't run from the storm

A veces, la miro y lloro y lloro

Sometimes I look at her and I cry and cry

Pensando que pudo y no fue al final

Thinking that it could have been and it wasn't in the end

Ver a las nubes tapar las estrellas

Seeing the clouds cover the stars

Estrellas que sólo te quieren mirar

Stars that only want to look at you

Porque eres la cuna que mece sin nada

Because you are the cradle that rocks without anything

Porque eres la lluvia que no hace mojar

Because you are the rain that doesn't make you wet

Sin ti yo veía tardes de historias

Without you I saw afternoons of stories

Historias que nunca quise ver acabar

Stories that I never wanted to see end

Tanto la quería, tanto que yo

I loved her so much, so much that I

Por ella moría, eso bien lo sabe Dios

I would die for her, God knows that well

Ella es la reina de mi inspiración

She is the queen of my inspiration

Por la que yo sufro, la musa de mi amor

For whom I suffer, the muse of my love

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Busco en el recuerdo y no encuentro mi pasado

I search in my memory and I don't find my past

Las campanas y más campanas que mi alma ha escuchado

The bells and more bells that my soul has heard

Tú sabes bien que a la última frontera te hubiera llevado

You know well that I would have taken you to the last frontier

Que los senderos de la vida hay que cojerlos con dos manos

That the paths of life must be taken with both hands

A veces, la miro y lloro y lloro

Sometimes I look at her and I cry and cry

Pensando que pudo y no fue el final

Thinking that it could have been and it wasn't the end

Ver a las nubes tapar las estrellas

Seeing the clouds cover the stars

Estrellas que sólo te quieren mirar

Stars that only want to look at you

Porque eres la cuna que mece sin nada

Because you are the cradle that rocks without anything

Porque eres la lluvia que no hace mojar

Because you are the rain that doesn't make you wet

Sin ti yo veía tardes de historias

Without you I saw afternoons of stories

Historias que nunca quise ver acabar

Stories that I never wanted to see end

Tanto la quería, tanto que yo

I loved her so much, so much that I

Por ella moría, eso bien lo sabe Dios

I would die for her, God knows that well

Ella es la reina de mi inspiración

She is the queen of my inspiration

Por la que yo sufro, la musa de mi amor

For whom I suffer, the muse of my love

Tanto la quería (Sólo por ella, sólo por ella)

I loved her so much (Only for her, only for her)

Tanto que yo (Yo viviré)

So much that I (I will live)

Por ella moría (Sólo por ella, sólo sin ella)

I would die for her (Only for her, only without her)

Eso bien lo sabe Dios (Yo viviré, no, no, no)

God knows that well (I will live, no, no, no)

Ella es la reina (Sólo por ella, sólo sin ella)

She is the queen (Only for her, only without her)

De mi inspiración (Yo viviré)

Of my inspiration (I will live)

Por la que yo sufro, la musa de mi amor (Sólo por ella, sólo, sólo sin ella)

For whom I suffer, the muse of my love (Only for her, only, only without her)

Tanto la quería, tanto, tanto la quería

I loved her so much, so much, so much I loved her

Que por ella moría, ay, por ella yo moría

That I would die for her, oh, for her I would die

Ella es la reina, reina de mi reina

She is the queen, queen of my queen

Por la que yo sufro, oh, oh, oh, no

For whom I suffer, oh, oh, oh, no

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
hermosa /eɾˈmosa/ B1	adjective - beautiful
difícil /diˈfisil/ B2	adjective - difficult
vida /ˈbi.ða/ A2	noun - life
pasar /paˈsaɾ/ A2	verb - to pass
querer /keˈɾeɾ/ A2	verb - to want, to love
juguete /xuˈɣete/ B2	noun - toy
amarnós /aˈmaɾnos/ C1	verb - to love
besarnos /besˈaɾnos/ B2	verb - to kiss
cielo /ˈθje.lo/ /ˈje.lo/ A2	noun - sky, heaven
estrellas /esˈtɾe.ʝas/ A2	noun - stars
corazones /ko.ˈɾa.θo.nes/ /ko.ɾa.ʝo.nes/ A2	noun - hearts
reina /ˈrei.na/ B1	noun - queen
inspiración /ins.pi.ɾaˈθjon/ B2	noun - inspiration
musa /ˈmu.sa/ C1	noun - muse, source of inspiration

Key Grammar Structures

• ¿Por qué eres tan hermosa y, a la vez, tan difícil?

  ➔ Adjective + *tan* + adjective/adverb + *y a la vez* + adjective/adverb.

  ➔ *Tan* intensifies the adjective. *Y a la vez* means 'at the same time' or 'simultaneously'.

• Si me trataste como a un juguete sucio y abandonado

  ➔ *Tratar como* + a + noun: to treat someone/something *as* something else.

  ➔ This sentence uses the structure *tratar como a*, which expresses a comparison in the treatment.

• Envidio a todo aquel que el amor ha encontrado

  ➔ Relative Clause with *aquel que*: 'the one who/that'

  ➔ *Aquel que* is a relative pronoun referring to a person or thing. It's used here to specify 'everyone who has found love'.

• Que lo mío no es ir de flor en flor, que de eso ya me he cansado

  ➔ Idiomatic expression: *Ir de flor en flor* (to flit from one person to another).

  ➔ The idiom *ir de flor en flor* refers to being unfaithful or fickle in relationships. The perfect tense *me he cansado* indicates that the speaker is tired of doing this.

• Sólo quería adornar las noches con tu cara morena

  ➔ Verb + *con* + noun: to do something *with* something.

  ➔ Here, *con* indicates the means or instrument used to adorn the nights. *Con tu cara morena* means 'with your dark face'.

• Y decirte que hay corazones que no huyen de la tormenta

  ➔ Relative clause with *que* + Subjunctive: expressing a characteristic or possibility

  ➔ The use of the subjunctive *huyan* after *que* indicates a characteristic of the hearts being described – they are hearts that *don't* flee from the storm.

• Pensando que pudo y no fue al final

  ➔ Past Subjunctive *pudo*: Expressing a possibility that didn't happen.

  ➔ *Pudo* is the past subjunctive form of *poder*, expressing something that was possible but ultimately didn't occur. 'Thinking that it could have been and it wasn't in the end'.

• Porque eres la cuna que mece sin nada

  ➔ Relative clause: *que* as relative pronoun, introducing defining relative clauses.

  ➔ *Que mece sin nada* is a relative clause that defines the noun *cuna*. It specifies which kind of cradle is being referred to.

• Por la que yo sufro, la musa de mi amor

  ➔ *Por la que* + Verb: Using *por* to indicate the reason or cause.

  ➔ *Por la que* introduces a relative clause that indicates the reason for his suffering. It translates to 'because of whom' or 'for whom'.