Día 14 De Abril – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: ROSALÍA
• Album: Los Ángeles

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the poetic Spanish of Rosalía with 'Día 14 De Abril'. This song is a perfect gateway to learning expressive, romantic Spanish vocabulary and understanding how contemporary artists use rhythm and spoken-word elements to convey deep sentiment.

[English]

Take me, take me, for heaven's sake

Driver, driver

Take me, take me, for heaven's sake

To the Romero mine

Where they've just committed a murder

Oh, my dear little brother, whom I love so much

It won't leave my mind

April fourteenth

It won't leave my mind

Because that day I saw myself

At death's door

Oh, just from loving you

When you look at me, you kill me

And if you don't look at me anymore

When you look at me, you kill me

They are daggers that you plunge into me

And then you pull them out again

And you pull them out again, ah-ah-ah-oh

...

[Spanish]

Llévame, llévame, por cari'a

Carretero, carretero

Llévame, llévame, por cari'a

A la mina del Romero

Que acaban d'asesinar

Ay, al hermanico qué más quiero yo

No se borra de mi mente

Día catorce de abril

No se borra de mi mente

Porque ese día me vi

En las puertas de la muerte

Ay, sólo por quererte a ti

Cuando me miras, me matas

Y si no me miras más

Cuando me miras, me matas

Son puñales que me clavas

Y los vuelves a sacar

Y los vuelves a sacar, ah-ah-ah-oh

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
llevar ye-bar A1	verb - To take or carry someone or something.
carretero ka-re-te-ro B2	noun - Carter or wagoner.
mina mi-na A2	noun - Mine (for minerals).
asesinar a-se-si-nar B1	verb - To murder or assassinate.
hermanico er-ma-ni-ko B2	noun - Little brother (affectionate).
mente men-te A2	noun - Mind.
muerte muer-te A1	noun - Death.
querer ke-rer A1	verb - To love or to want.
matar ma-tar A2	verb - To kill.
puñales pu-ña-les B2	noun - Daggers.
clavar kla-bar B1	verb - To stab or drive in.
sacar sa-kar A1	verb - To take out or extract.
borrar bo-rar A2	verb - To erase or wipe out.
puertas puer-tas A1	noun - Doors.

Key Grammar Structures

• Llévame, llévame, por cari'a

  ➔ Imperative mood (Affirmative tu)

  ➔ "Llévame" is the verb 'llevar' in the imperative form directed at 'tú', combined with the clitic pronoun 'me'.

• Que acaban d'asesinar

  ➔ Periphrastic construction (Acabar de + infinitive)

  ➔ "Acaban de asesinar" indicates an action that happened very recently.

• No se borra de mi mente

  ➔ Reflexive verb usage

  ➔ "Se borra" is a pronominal use of the verb 'borrar' to indicate an internal mental process.

• Porque ese día me vi

  ➔ Preterite tense

  ➔ "Me vi" is the preterite form of 'verse', used for a specific completed action in the past.

• Sólo por quererte a ti

  ➔ Prepositional 'a' + Disjunctive pronoun

  ➔ Using 'a ti' emphasizes the object of the affection 'querer'.

• Cuando me miras, me matas

  ➔ Present indicative (Conditionals in temporal clauses)

  ➔ The 'cuando' clause uses the indicative present to describe a recurring action or habit.

• Son puñales que me clavas

  ➔ Relative clause

  ➔ 'que' functions as a relative pronoun connecting 'puñales' to the action of the listener.

• Y los vuelves a sacar

  ➔ Periphrastic construction (Volver a + infinitive)

  ➔ 'Volver a + sacar' means to repeat the action of taking them out.