Hedonista – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Caloncho

Lyrics & Translation

Discover the emotive storytelling of Caloncho's 'Hedonista' and enhance your Spanish language skills by exploring its poignant lyrics. This song offers a unique opportunity to learn vocabulary related to love, loss, and philosophical concepts of pleasure, all wrapped in a beautifully melancholic melody that captures a side of Mexican musical expression beyond the traditional.

[English]

You left me

Crystal clear eyes

With a broken heart

It was life

So beautiful together

You went away, now you're someone else

How many hours

Lonely hours will make you come back to me?

Hedonist

Selfish, it's so easy for you to dismiss

Pure loves

You promised you'd always take care of me

...

My comfort

Comes from the beach

And I believe in karma

Everyone pays

For what they once trusted

Life demands it

How many hours

Lonely hours will make you come back to me?

And hedonist

Selfish, it's so easy for you to dismiss

Pure loves

You promised you'd always take care of me

Hedonist

Selfish, it was easy for you to end it

A love so pure

I loved you blindly until the end

...

[Spanish]

Me dejaste

Cristalina de ojos

Con el corazón roto

Fue la vida

Tan bonita juntos

Te fuiste, ahora eres otro

¿Cuántas horas

Solitarias, te harán volver a mí?

Hedonista

Egoísta, te es tan fácil despachar

Amores puros

Prometiste que me ibas siempre a cuidar

Mi consuelo

Viene de la playa

Y creo en el karma

Todos pagan

Lo que un día les fiaron

La vida lo reclama

¿Cuántas horas

Solitarias, te harán volver a mí?

Y hedonista

Egoísta, te es tan fácil despachar

Amores puros

Prometiste que me ibas siempre a cuidar

Hedonista

Egoísta, te fue fácil liquidar

Un amor tan puro

Ciegamente yo te quise hasta el final

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
Cristalina /kɾistaˈlina/ B2	adjective - crystal-clear, crystalline
corazón /koɾaˈθon/ A1	noun - heart
roto /ˈro.to/ B1	adjective - broken
vida /ˈbi.ða/ A1	noun - life
horas /ˈo.ɾas/ A1	noun - hours
solitarias /soliˈtaɾjas/ B2	adjective - lonely, solitary
Hedonista /edoˈnista/ C1	adjective - hedonistic noun - hedonist
Egoísta /eɣoˈista/ B2	adjective - selfish, egoistic noun - selfish person
fácil /ˈfa.θil/ A2	adjective - easy
amores /aˈmo.ɾes/ A2	noun - loves
puros /ˈpu.ɾos/ B1	adjective - pure
consuelo /konˈswe.lo/ B2	noun - comfort, solace
playa /ˈpla.ʝa/ A1	noun - beach
karma /ˈkaɾ.ma/ B2	noun - karma
ciegamente /θjeˈɣamen̪te/ C1	adverb - blindly

Key Grammar Structures

• Me dejaste Cristalina de ojos

  ➔ Use of adjective to modify a noun

  ➔ "Cristalina" is an adjective modifying "ojos" (eyes), indicating their clearness or beauty. It's not a direct translation but suggests clear, bright eyes.

• ¿Cuántas horas solitarias, te harán volver a mí?

  ➔ Future tense using "hacer" + infinitive to express causing something to happen in the future.

  ➔ "Te harán volver" translates to "they will make you return." The structure "hacer + infinitive" is used to indicate causation in the future.

• Egoísta, te es tan fácil despachar

  ➔ Impersonal "ser" + adjective construction: "Es fácil" + infinitive. Indirect object pronoun "te" indicating who finds it easy.

  ➔ The phrase "te es tan fácil despachar" means "it's so easy for you to dismiss." The impersonal "es" indicates the ease, while "te" shows it is easy *for you*.

• Prometiste que me ibas siempre a cuidar

  ➔ Imperfect progressive tense ("ibas a cuidar") to express an intention or plan in the past. Reported Speech using "que".

  ➔ "Ibas a cuidar" indicates a past intention to take care of someone. The "que" introduces the reported speech part of the sentence.

• Lo que un día les fiaron, La vida lo reclama

  ➔ Relative pronoun "Lo" referring to the act. "Les fiaron" - fiar meaning to entrust. Indirect object pronoun "les".

  ➔ "Lo que un día les fiaron" refers to "that which was entrusted to them one day." The life reclaims this later on.

• Te fue fácil liquidar un amor tan puro

  ➔ Use of "fue fácil" + infinitive construction to express ease in the past. Use of "tan" + adjective to emphasize the degree of purity.

  ➔ "Fue fácil liquidar" means "it was easy to end". The phrase "tan puro" emphasizes that the love was exceptionally pure.