Tres Botellas – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Junior H

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into 'Tres Botellas' to master colloquial Mexican Spanish related to heartbreak and nightlife. The song is special for its raw, emotional storytelling, making it a perfect tool for learners to understand how regional slang and cultural expressions are woven into modern Mexican music.

[English]

[Music]

Drinking with some friends

Another little bottle to help me

Forget

This broken feeling, I haven't felt it

in a while, and every time it makes me

feel worse. To heal my wounds, I'll take it

with salt, because if I don't feel

anything, I won't

cry. So I start

drinking. It's been three

bottles already and I still want

more. To keep from

thinking of you, I have to get drunk, because my

heart just can't take it anymore

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

anymore

I don't know what you're thinking, if you're

missing me, or if you even

remember me. As for me, I'm out drinking with

women, talking, but even that doesn't

help. People have been asking me about you,

what happened, but I don't want to

answer, so I don't cry.

I start

drinking. It's been three

bottles already and I still want

more. To keep from

thinking of you, I have to

get wasted, because my

heart just can't take it anymore

[Music]

[Music]

anymore

[Music]

oh

[Spanish]

[Música]

pisteando con unos

compase otro botecito porque te quiero

olvidar

este roto sentimiento hace rato no lo

siento y cada vez me hace más

mal para curarme las heridas Catarina

con salivas si no siento

nada para no

llorar me pongo a

pistear ya van tres

botellas y aún quiero

más para no

pensarte tengo que emplearme pues mi

corazón ya no puede

[Música]

[Música]

[Música]

más

no sé qué estarás pensando si me estarás

extrañando ni de mí te has

acordar por mi parte ando pisteando con

mujeres platicando Pero ni así se me

da la gente me ha preguntado sobre ti

que que 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

pegarme pues mi

corazón ya no puede

[Música]

[Música]

más

[Música]

i

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
pisteando pis-te-an-do C1	verb - Drinking alcohol (slang).
botellas bo-te-yas A1	noun - Bottles.
sentimiento sen-ti-mien-to B1	noun - Feeling / Sentiment.
heridas e-ri-das B2	noun - Wounds / Injuries.
olvidar ol-bi-dar A2	verb - To forget.
llorar yo-rar A2	verb - To cry.
pensarte pen-sar-te B1	verb - To think about you.
corazón ko-ra-son A1	noun - Heart.
extrañando eks-tra-nyan-do B2	verb - Missing someone.
platicando pla-ti-kan-do B2	verb - Talking / Chatting.
preguntado pre-gun-ta-do A1	verb - Asked.
contestar kon-tes-tar A2	verb - To answer / reply.
pegarme pe-gar-me B2	verb - To stick / to get into (a habit).
mujeres mu-xe-res A1	noun - Women.
pasado pa-sa-do A1	verb - Happened / Past.

Key Grammar Structures

• porque te quiero olvidar

  ➔ Periphrastic construction with 'querer' + infinitive

  ➔ The verb "quierer" is used here as a modal auxiliary to express desire before the infinitive "olvidar".

• cada vez me hace más mal

  ➔ Comparative structure with 'más'

  ➔ The phrase "cada vez" acts as an adverbial expression, while "más" functions as a comparative quantifier.

• si no siento nada

  ➔ Conditional 'si' clause (Real condition)

  ➔ The use of "si" + present indicative introduces a factual or real-life condition.

• me pongo a pistear

  ➔ Periphrastic construction 'ponerse a' + infinitive

  ➔ This construction indicates the start of an action, focusing on the transition into the process of drinking.

• ya van tres botellas

  ➔ Existential construction with 'ir' in plural

  ➔ In this context, "van" functions as a verb indicating accumulation or progress of a count.

• no sé qué estarás pensando

  ➔ Future progressive in an indirect question

  ➔ The future progressive "estarás pensando" expresses conjecture about a current state in the speaker's mind.

• si me estarás extrañando

  ➔ Indirect question with future of probability

  ➔ The future tense is used here to indicate a probability or speculation about the other person's feelings.

• ni de mí te has acordar

  ➔ Idiomatic expression with 'acordarse de'

  ➔ The reflexive verb "acordarse" requires the preposition "de" and is used to express "remembering".