TRES BOTELLAS – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Junior H

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the rhythmic world of Corridos Tumbados with Junior H! This song is a perfect gateway to learning modern Mexican Spanish slang and understanding the emotional storytelling found in contemporary regional music.

[English]

Drinking with some buddies

I popped open another little bottle

Because I want to forget you

This broken feeling

It's been a while since I've felt it

And it hurts me more every time

To heal my wounds

Tequila with salt and lime

That way, I don't feel a thing

So I don't cry

I start drinking

That's three bottles already

And I still want more

To keep you off my mind

I have to get wasted

Because my heart

Just can't take it anymore

...

I don't know what you must be thinking

If you're missing me

And if you must be remembering me

As for me, I'm out drinking

Chatting with women

But even that doesn't work

People have been asking me

About you, what happened

And I don't want to answer them

So I don't cry

I start drinking

That's three bottles already

And I still want more

To keep you off my mind

I have to get wasted

Because my heart

Just can't take it anymore

...

[Spanish]

Pisteando con unos compas

Destapé otro botecito

Porque te quiero olvidar

Este roto sentimiento

Hace rato no lo siento

Y cada vez me hace más mal

Pa curarme las heridas

Catarina con saliva

Así no siento nada

Para no llorar

Me pongo a pistear

Ya van tres botellas

Y aún quiero más

Para no pensarte

Tengo que empedarme

Pues mi corazón

Ya no puede más

No sé qué estarás pensando

Si me estarás extrañando

Y de mí te has de acordar

Por mi parte, ando pisteando

Con mujeres platicando

Pero ni así se me da

La gente me ha preguntado

Sobre ti, que qué ha pasado

Y no les quiero contestar

Para no llorar

Me pongo a pistear

Ya van tres botellas

Y aún quiero más

Para no pensarte

Tengo que empedarme

Pues mi corazón

Ya no puede más

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
pisteando pisteando B2	verb - Drinking alcohol (slang).
compas kompas B1	noun - Close friends, buddies.
botellas boteyas A1	noun - Bottles.
roto roto A2	adjective - Broken.
sentimiento sentimiento A2	noun - Feeling, sentiment.
heridas eridas B1	noun - Wounds.
llorar yorar A2	verb - To cry.
empedarme empedarme C1	verb - To get drunk (slang).
corazón korason A1	noun - Heart.
extrañando estrayando A2	verb - Missing (someone/something).
acordar akordar A2	verb - To remember.
platicando platikando B1	verb - Chatting, talking.
contestar kontestar A2	verb - To answer.
gente hente A1	noun - People.

Key Grammar Structures

• Pisteando con unos compas

  ➔ Gerund (Gerundio)

  ➔ "Pisteando" indicates an ongoing action or the way in which the subject is spending time.

• Porque te quiero olvidar

  ➔ Causal conjunction + Periphrastic verb

  ➔ "Porque" introduces the reason, and "quiero olvidar" uses "querer" + infinitive to express desire.

• Hace rato no lo siento

  ➔ Hacer + time expression (Duration)

  ➔ "Hace rato" is a fixed phrase indicating a period of time that has passed.

• No sé qué estarás pensando

  ➔ Future of probability (Futuro de probabilidad)

  ➔ "Estarás pensando" uses the future tense not for time, but to express uncertainty or conjecture about the present.

• Si me estarás extrañando

  ➔ Conditional 'Si' clause with probability

  ➔ The "si" clause introduces a question of uncertainty, using the future of probability.

• De mí te has de acordar

  ➔ Periphrastic construction 'Haber de + infinitive'

  ➔ "Has de acordar" functions here to express probability or logical necessity (You must remember me).

• Ya van tres botellas

  ➔ Ir + quantity (Progressive accumulation)

  ➔ "Van" here indicates the progressive count or accumulation of the action.

• No les quiero contestar

  ➔ Direct object pronoun placement (Clitics)

  ➔ "Les" (indirect object) is placed before the conjugated verb "quiero".