tumbas de insomnio – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: TRANSMETAL
• Album: Las alas del emperador

Lyrics & Translation

[Spanish]

[English]

Con enfermo frenesí

With sick frenzy

Ardiendo está tu tumba

Your grave is burning

Donde la luz nunca iluminó

Where light never shined

Tu insomnio en penumbra

Your insomnia in darkness

Hueles los aromas

You smell the scents

Del miedo y pavor

Of fear and dread

Prevalece sólo el horror

Only horror prevails

En tu cripta de decepción

In your crypt of disappointment

Escombros de muerte

Rubble of death

Tallados con dolor

Carved with pain

Sádicos deseos

Sado desires

Que brotan al exterior

That burst outward

Nubes de tinta negra

Clouds of black ink

Arrojan penas de ira

Cast waves of anger

Cuanta desolación

How much desolation

Exclama tu interior

Your inner self shouts

Nubes de tinta negra

Clouds of black ink

Arrojan penas de ira

Cast waves of anger

Cuanta desolación

How much desolation

Exclama tu interior

Your inner self shouts

Siniestras manos de homicida

Sinister hands of murderer

Desgarran caras en la tenue luz

Tear faces in faint light

Voces distantes murmuran nombres

Distant voices whisper names

De aquellos caídos en la perdición

Of those fallen in perdition

Cierra las cortinas de tu insomnio

Close the curtains of your insomnia

Y deja a alguien alcanzar la lejanía

And let someone reach the distance

Tú estás enterrado dentro...

You are buried inside...

En esas tumbas sin dormir todavía

In those graves that still sleep

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
tumba /ˈtum.ba/ A2	noun - grave
insomnio /inˈsom.njo/ B1	noun - insomnia
horror /ˈhɔr.ər/ B2	noun - a strong feeling of fear or shock
dolor /doˈlor/ B1	noun - pain
desolación /deso.laˈθjon/ B2	noun - desolation
miedo /ˈmje.ðo/ A2	noun - fear
caras /ˈka.ras/ A1	noun - faces
nubes /ˈnu.βes/ A1	noun - clouds
deseos /deˈse.os/ A2	noun - desires
exterior /eksˈte.ri.or/ B1	adjective - outer
caídos /kaˈi.ðos/ B2	adjective - fallen
luz /luθ/ A1	noun - light
ira /ˈi.ra/ B1	noun - anger
manos /ˈma.nos/ A1	noun - hands
nombres /ˈnom.bres/ A2	noun - names
perdición /peɾ.ðiˈsjon/ B2	noun - ruin

Key Grammar Structures

• Con enfermo frenesí

  ➔ Prepositional phrase indicating 'with' or 'having' a condition

  ➔ Uses the preposition 'con' to introduce a phrase describing a mental or emotional state.

• Ardiendo está tu tumba

  ➔ Subject-verb agreement with 'está' (third person singular)

  ➔ The verb 'está' (is) agrees with the singular noun 'tu tumba' (your tomb).

• Nubes de tinta negra

  ➔ Noun phrase with 'de' indicating 'of' or possessive relationship

  ➔ The phrase 'de tinta negra' describes the type of 'nubes' (clouds).

• Cierra las cortinas de tu insomnio

  ➔ Imperative verb 'cierra' used to give a command or instruction

  ➔ The form 'cierra' is an imperative imperative of 'cerrar' (to close).

• Tú estás enterrado dentro

  ➔ Present tense of 'estar' (to be) in second person singular + passive participle

  ➔ Combines 'estás' (you are) with the past participle 'enterrado' (buried) to form passive or descriptive statement.

• En esas tumbas sin dormir todavía

  ➔ Prepositional phrase indicating location with time adverb 'todavía' (still)

  ➔ The phrase 'En esas tumbas sin dormir todavía' describes the location and state, emphasizing that they are still in the tombs.