tristeza de lucifer – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: transmetal

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

Es muy tarde para reconciliar... / Todas mis lágrimas

It's too late to reconcile... / All my tears

No han lavado el dolor que carcome todo mi ser /

Have not washed away the pain that eats away at my being /

Sepultado con mi rabia mi corazón se volvió hielo / tu

Buried with my rage, my heart turned to ice / your

Sentencia es muerte y me ahogo en tristeza... en tristeza.

Sentence is death and I drown in sadness... in sadness.

Lárgrimas de furia / tristeza de Lucifer...

Tears of fury / sadness of Lucifer...

Mi destino es cruel / pero yo, nunca levantaré mis

My destiny is cruel / but I, will never lift my

Ojos para llenarlos de tu pálido cielo.

Eyes to fill them with your pale sky.

Sin piedad ni remordimiento yo aplasto al mundo / me

Without mercy or remorse, I crush the world / I

Burlo de su miseria para calmar mi tristeza... mi tristeza.

Mock its misery to calm my sadness... my sadness.

Lágrimas de furia / tristeza de Lucifer...

Tears of fury / sadness of Lucifer...

Mi cólera lo abraza todo / mira, las ruinas de la derrota /

My anger embraces everything / look, the ruins of defeat /

Mis lágrimas ahogan la carne con su orgullo e indiferencia.

My tears drown the flesh with their pride and indifference.

Mi venganza ha comenzado / con miseria y agonía /

My revenge has begun / with misery and agony /

Entonces tú me pagarás las lágrimas que tanto he llorado...

Then you will pay me for the tears I have cried so much...

Tanto he llorado... Tanto he llorado...

So much I have cried... So much I have cried...

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
tarde /ˈtaɾ.ðe/ A1	adjective - late
lágrimas /ˈla.ɣɾi.mas/ A2	noun - tears
dolor /doˈloɾ/ A2	noun - pain
ser /seɾ/ A1	noun - being
corazón /ko.ɾaˈθon/ A1	noun - heart
muerte /ˈmweɾ.te/ A2	noun - death
tristeza /tɾisˈte.θa/ B1	noun - sadness
furia /ˈfu.ɾja/ B1	noun - fury
destino /desˈti.no/ B1	noun - destiny
cielo /ˈθje.lo/ A1	noun - sky, heaven
piedad /pjeˈðað/ B2	noun - pity
mundo /ˈmun.do/ A1	noun - world
miseria /miˈse.ɾja/ B2	noun - misery
cólera /ˈko.le.ɾa/ B2	noun - anger, rage
ruinas /ˈrwi.nas/ B1	noun - ruins
derrota /deˈro.ta/ B1	noun - defeat
orgullo /oɾˈɣuʎo/ B1	noun - pride
venganza /beŋˈɡan.θa/ B2	noun - revenge
agonía /aˈɣo.ni.a/ B2	noun - agony

Key Grammar Structures

• Es muy tarde para reconciliar...

  ➔ Ser + Adjective + para + Infinitive

  ➔ Expresses that something is too [adjective] to do something else. Here, it's too late to reconcile.

• Todas mis lágrimas no han lavado el dolor que carcome todo mi ser

  ➔ Present Perfect Negative + Relative Clause (que)

  ➔ Uses the present perfect negative ('no han lavado') to express that the action of washing hasn't been completed. 'Que carcome todo mi ser' is a relative clause describing the 'dolor'.

• Sepultado con mi rabia mi corazón se volvió hielo

  ➔ Past Participle as Adjective + Reflexive Verb

  ➔ 'Sepultado' (buried) acts as an adjective describing 'corazón'. 'Se volvió' is a reflexive verb meaning 'turned into'.

• Mi destino es cruel

  ➔ Ser + Adjective (Describing a characteristic)

  ➔ 'Es' (is) links the subject 'destino' (destiny) to the adjective 'cruel' (cruel), describing a characteristic of the destiny.

• Sin piedad ni remordimiento yo aplasto al mundo

  ➔ Preposition + Noun + conjunction + Noun + Subject + Verb + Preposition + Article + Noun

  ➔ Demonstrates a complex sentence structure using a string of nouns and prepositions before getting to the subject and verb.

• Mi cólera lo abraza todo / mira, las ruinas de la derrota

  ➔ Object Pronoun + Verb + Direct Object / Imperative + Article + Noun + Preposition + Noun

  ➔ Demonstrates usage of an object pronoun and a direct object, followed by an imperative sentence with a specific structure.

• Entonces tú me pagarás las lágrimas que tanto he llorado...

  ➔ Adverb of time + Subject + Object Pronoun + Verb + Article + Noun + Relative Pronoun + Adverb of Quantity + Present Perfect + Verb

  ➔ This sentence uses a complex structure including an adverb of time, object pronoun, relative pronoun ('que'), adverb of quantity ('tanto'), and the present perfect ('he llorado') within a relative clause. Highlights temporal sequence and emphasizes the amount wept.