Conciencia – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Gilberto Santa Rosa

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the rhythmic world of salsa with Gilberto Santa Rosa's 'Conciencia.' This song is a perfect tool for Spanish learners to master expressive vocabulary related to emotions, ethics, and social concepts, all while enjoying the sophisticated phrasing of one of salsa's greatest masters.

[English]

[music]

[music]

She has the magic of a single moment

[music]

of love

and her gaze adds a touch of mystery.

When she arrives, I always seem to lose

[music] control.

I'm never the same once I kiss her.

My conscience tells me I shouldn't

[music][singing] love her

but my heart screams that I must.

[music]

My conscience holds me back when I'm about to

hold her.

And my heart pushes me [music] all the way to

hell, into the sweet and tender abyss of

her kisses.

[singing]

[music]

When love clings to the heart and

conscience isn't [music] right,

advice is useless.

When [music] one tastes the fruit

[singing] of love, when one learns to

feel more than once,

there is no [music] other choice [singing]

than to give love [music] heaven and wings

and make the difficult thing the most beautiful.

[music]

[music]

My conscience tells me I should

forget her [music]

but my heart screams that I can't.

[music]

Conscience doesn't know that you can't

do anything more [singing]

once you [music] become a prisoner to some

kisses, an "I love you," and the desire

[music][singing]

of the heart.

[music] When love clings to the

[singing] heart and conscience isn't

right,

advice is [music] useless.

When one tastes the fruit of love,

when one learns to feel [singing] more

than once,

there is no [music] other choice

than to give [music][singing] love

heaven and wings

and make [music] the difficult thing the most

beautiful.

[music]

My heart tells [music] me

to love her and surrender without

condition.

My conscience [singing] screams [music] at me,

to think it through, not to commit such

an imprudence. [singing]

My heart tells me,

it's better to forget past

[music][singing]

experience. Conscience screams:

Danger, watch out! Use your reason,

my heart tells me.

Don't let this [music][singing] opportunity

slip away,

but my conscience screams at me:

Making the same [music][singing] mistake again

cannot be a coincidence.

[music]

[music]

[music]

My heart says [music],

"Let love in, it's knocking at your

door,"

but my conscience screams. [music]

It's going to make you cry, it's going to make

you suffer, it will bring disappointment, [singing]

my heart tells me.

Surrender [music], for love has defeated you.

My conscience doesn't [singing] scream that.

It seems that way, but it's not. That happens

frequently.

[music]

[music]

[music]

[music]

[music]

My heart tells me I must love her.

My conscience screams

that it's not the time [music] to love.

[singing] There's no need for heartbreak. My

heart tells me

that you cannot love [music][singing]

intelligently,

but my conscience screams

that conscience and

[music] reason cannot agree.

[music]

[Spanish]

[música]

[música]

Ella tiene la magia de un instante

[música]

de amor

y su mirada Da un toque de misterio.

Cuando ella llega siempre suelo perder

[música] el control.

No vuelvo a ser el mismo si la beso.

La conciencia me dice que no la debo

[música][canto] querer

y el corazón me grita que si debo.

[música]

La conciencia me frena cuando la voy a

tener.

Y el corazón me empuja [música] hasta el

infierno, al abismo dulce y tierno de

sus besos.

[canto]

[música]

Cuando se aferra querer al corazón y la

conciencia no [música] tiene la razón,

no valen los consejos.

Cuando [música] se prueba del fruto

[canto] del querer, cuando se aprende a

sentir más de una vez,

no queda [música] más remedio [canto]

que darle cielo [música] y alas al amor

y hacer de lo difícil lo más bello.

[música]

[música]

La conciencia me dice que la debo

olvidar [música]

y el corazón me grita que no puedo.

[música]

La conciencia no sabe que no se puede

hacer más [canto]

cuando te [música] vuelves preso de unos

besos de un te quiero, del deseo

[música][canto]

del corazón.

[música] Cuando se aferra un querer al

[canto] corazón y la conciencia no tiene

la razón,

no valen los [música] consejos.

Cuando se prueba del fruto del querer,

cuando se aprende a sentir [canto] más

de una vez,

no queda [música] más remedio

que darle cielo [música][canto] y alas a

el amor

y hacer [música] de lo difícil lo más

bello.

[música]

Me dice el [música] corazón

que la quiera y me entregue sin

condición.

Me grita [canto] la [música] conciencia,

que lo piense bien, que no comete esa

imprudencia. [canto]

Me dice el corazón,

olvidar es mejor la pasada

[música][canto]

experiencia. Grita la conciencia.

Peligro, cuidado. Utiliza la razón,

me dice el corazón.

No pierdas por [música][canto] nada esta

ocasión,

pero me grita la conciencia.

Equivocarte [música][canto] de nuevo no

puede ser coincidencia.

[música]

[música]

[música]

dice el [música] corazón,

"Dale paso al amor que está tocando tu

puerta,

pero me grita la conciencia. [música]

Te va a hacer llorar, te va a hacer

sufrir, traerá decepción, [canto]

me dice el corazón.

Ríndete [música] que el amor te venció.

No me grita la [canto] conciencia.

Parece pero no es. Eso pasa con

frecuencia.

[música]

[música]

[música]

[música]

[música]

Me dice el corazón que debo quererla.

Me grita la conciencia

que no es hora de [música] querer.

[canto] No hace falta una desilusión. Me

dice el corazón

que no se puede querer [música][canto]

con inteligencia,

pero me grita la conciencia

que no se ponen de acuerdo la conciencia

[música] y la razón.

[música]

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
conciencia kon-syen-sya B2	noun - conscience, awareness
magia ma-hya A2	noun - magic
instante ins-tan-te A2	noun - instant, moment
mirada mi-ra-da A2	noun - gaze, look
misterio mis-te-ryo B1	noun - mystery
infierno in-fyer-no B1	noun - hell
abismo a-bis-mo B2	noun - abyss, chasm
aferrarse a-fer-rar-se B2	verb - to cling to
remedio re-me-dyo B1	noun - remedy, solution
preso pre-so B1	noun - prisoner, captive
imprudencia im-pru-den-sya C1	noun - imprudence, recklessness
ocasión o-ka-syon A2	noun - occasion, opportunity
coincidencia koin-si-den-sya B1	noun - coincidence
frecuencia fre-kwen-sya B2	noun - frequency
inteligencia in-te-li-hen-sya A2	noun - intelligence

Key Grammar Structures

• La conciencia me dice que no la debo querer

  ➔ Periphrastic modal verb construction

  ➔ The structure "debo + infinitive" expresses obligation or necessity in the present.

• No vuelvo a ser el mismo si la beso.

  ➔ Aspectual periphrasis "volver a + infinitive"

  ➔ "Vuelvo a ser" indicates an action that happens again, implying a repetitive or cyclical state.

• No valen los consejos.

  ➔ Inverted word order (Verb + Subject)

  ➔ Placing "valen" before "los consejos" adds emphasis to the lack of effectiveness of the advice.

• Cuando se prueba del fruto del querer

  ➔ Impersonal "se" + Subjunctive (implied temporal clause)

  ➔ "Se prueba" refers to an indefinite subject, generalizing the experience of tasting the fruit of love.

• no queda más remedio que darle cielo

  ➔ Fixed idiomatic expression "No queda más remedio que..."

  ➔ This construction means "there is no other choice but to...", conveying a sense of resignation.

• si la beso

  ➔ Conditional "si" clause (Type 0 / General truth)

  ➔ Uses present indicative in both the condition and the result to express a recurring, inevitable consequence.

• No me grita la conciencia.

  ➔ Direct Object Pronoun "me"

  ➔ "Me" functions here as the indirect object, indicating to whom the conscience is shouting.

• Parece pero no es.

  ➔ Contrastive conjunction "pero"

  ➔ "Pero" introduces an opposition between the appearance of the love and its true reality.