Te Vi Venir – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Sin Bandera

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

Aún ni siquiera te tengo

I don't even have you yet

Y ya tengo miedo de perderte, amor

And I'm already afraid of losing you, my love

Qué rápido se me ha clavado

How quickly you've sunk into me

Qué dentro todo este dolor

Inside all this pain

Es poco lo que te conozco

I don't know you that well

Y ya pongo todo el juego a tu favor

And I already put all my cards in your favor

No tengo miedo de apostarte

I'm not afraid to bet on us

Perderte sí me da pavor

Losing you does scare me

No me queda más refugio, que la fantasía

I have no other refuge but fantasy

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No me queda más que hacer

There's nothing left for me to do

Que hacerte una poesía

But write you a poetry

Porque te vi venir y no dudé

Because I saw you coming and I didn't hesitate

Te vi llegar, y te abracé

I saw you arrive, and I held you tight

Y puse toda mi pasión para que te quedaras

And I poured all my passion so you'd stay

Y luego te besé y me arriesgué con la verdad

And then I kissed you and took the risk with the truth

Te acaricié

I caressed you

Y al fin abrí mi corazón para que tú pasaras, oh

And finally I opened my heart so you could pass through, oh

Mi amor te di sin condición para que te quedaras

I gave you my love unconditionally so you'd stay

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Ahora esperaré algunos días

Now I’ll wait a few days

Para ver si lo que te di fue suficiente

To see if what I gave you was enough

No sabes qué terror se siente

You don’t know what terror it feels

La espera cada madrugada

Waiting every dawn

Si tú ya no quisieras volver

If you no longer wanted to come back

Se perdería el sentido del amor por siempre

This love would lose its meaning forever

No entendería ya este mundo

I wouldn’t understand this world anymore

Me alejaría de la gente

I’d turn away from people

No me queda más refugio que la fantasía

I have no other refuge but fantasy

No me queda más que hacer

There's nothing left for me to do

Que hacerte una poesía, oh

But write you a poetry, oh

Porque te vi venir y no dudé

Because I saw you coming and I didn't hesitate

Te vi llegar y te abracé

I saw you arrive and I held you tight

Y puse toda mi pasión para que te quedaras

And I poured all my passion so you'd stay

Y luego te besé y me arriesgué con la verdad

And then I kissed you and took the risk with the truth

Te acaricié

I caressed you

Y al fin abrí mi corazón para que tú pasaras, oh

And finally I opened my heart so you could pass through, oh

Mi amor te di sin condición para que te quedaras, oh

I gave you my love unconditionally so you'd stay, oh

Mi amor te di sin condición para que te quedaras

I gave you my love unconditionally so you'd stay

Mi amor te di sin condición

My love unconditionally

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Para que te quedaras

So you'd stay

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
miedo /ˈmjɛðo/ A2	noun - fear
perder /peɾˈðeɾ/ A2	verb - to lose
amor /aˈmoɾ/ A1	noun - love
dolor /doˈloɾ/ B1	noun - pain
juego /ˈxweɣo/ A2	noun - game
pasión /paˈsjon/ B1	noun - passion
verdad /beɾˈðað/ B1	noun - truth
corazón /koɾaˈθon/ A2	noun - heart
fantasía /fantasˈia/ B2	noun - fantasy
esperar /espeˈɾaɾ/ A2	verb - to wait
suficiente /sufiˈθjente/ B1	adjective - sufficient
quedar /keˈðaɾ/ A2	verb - to stay
días /ˈdi.as/ A1	noun - days
sentido /senˈtido/ B2	noun - sense
gente /ˈxente/ A2	noun - people

Key Grammar Structures

• Aún ni siquiera te tengo

  ➔ Present tense

  ➔ The phrase uses the present tense to express a current state of not having someone.

• No tengo miedo de apostarte

  ➔ Negative form

  ➔ The sentence uses a negative form to express the absence of fear.

• Te vi venir y no dudé

  ➔ Past tense

  ➔ The phrase uses the past tense to describe an action that has already occurred.

• Mi amor te di sin condición

  ➔ Past tense with direct object

  ➔ The sentence uses the past tense with a direct object to indicate what was given.

• Ahora esperaré algunos días

  ➔ Future tense

  ➔ The phrase uses the future tense to express an action that will happen.

• Si tú ya no quisieras volver

  ➔ Conditional clause

  ➔ The sentence uses a conditional clause to express a hypothetical situation.

• No me queda más refugio que la fantasía

  ➔ Comparative structure

  ➔ The sentence uses a comparative structure to indicate the only remaining refuge.