Mientes – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: José José

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the emotive world of Spanish romanticism with 'Mientes'. This song is perfect for learners to practice the present tense of verbs and emotional vocabulary, while experiencing the legendary vocal mastery of José José.

[English]

Those kisses of love hurt me so much

That they make me hate love itself

Those burning phrases sear me so deeply

That I wish you wouldn't speak to me of love

And you laugh, so confident

That nothing is wrong, that this is just how I am

And you fall asleep so peacefully

Because you don't suspect that I discovered that

You lie when you say you love me

When you run into my arms

When you look me in the eye

And you kiss me sweetly; I'm sorry, but

You lie, and I look away

Why say anything at all?

If I'm going to love you just the same

This cursed mixture of love and hate

Makes me halfway happy and halfway miserable

You take everything from me and then give it all back

Until I don't know whether to cry or laugh

You look at me with an innocent face

And I resign myself, what else can I do?

If there's one thing I know I curse

It's having known love, as I know that

You lie when you say you love me

When you run into my arms

When you look me in the eye

And you kiss me sweetly; I'm sorry, but

You lie, and I look away

Why say anything at all?

If I'm going to love you just the same

And if I have what I want

At the end of the day

What do I care if it's a lie

Or if it's the truth

You lie when you say you love me

When you run into my arms

When you look me in the eye

And you kiss me sweetly; I'm sorry, but

You lie, and I look away

Why say anything at all?

If I'm going to love you just the same

You lie when you say you love me

When you run into my arms

When you look me in the eye

And you kiss me sweetly

I'm sorry, but you lie

...

[Spanish]

Esos besos de amor me hacen tanto daño

Que me hacen odiar el amor

Esas frases ardientes me queman tanto

Que ojalá no me hablarás de amor

Y te ríes y estas confiada

En que no pasa nada, que yo soy así,

Y te duermes tan plácidamente

Porque no sospechas que yo descubrí que

Mientes cuando dices que me amas

Cuando corres a mis brazos

Cuando me miras de frente

Y me besas dulcemente lo siento pero

Mientes, y yo vuelvo la mirada

¿Para que decirte nada?

Si te voy a amar igual

Esta mezcla maldita de amor y odio

Me hace a medias feliz e infeliz

Tú me quitas y luego me entregas todo

Que no sé si llorar o reír

Tú me miras con cara de niña

Y yo me resigno, ¿qué más puedo hacer?

Si hay algo que sé que maldigo

Es haber sabido amor, como sé que

Mientes cuando dices que me amas

Cuando corres a mis brazos

Cuando me miras de frente

Y me besas dulcemente, lo siento pero

Mientes, y yo vuelvo la mirada

¿Para que decirte nada?

Si te voy a amar igual

Y si tengo lo que quiero

Al fin y a cabo

Qué me importa que es mentira

Y que es verdad

Mientes cuando dices que me amas

Cuando corres a mis brazos

Cuando me miras de frente

Y me besas dulcemente lo siento pero

Mientes, y yo vuelvo la mirada

¿Para que decirte nada?

Si te voy a amar igual

Mientes cuando dices que me amas

Cuando corres a mis brazos

Cuando me miras de frente

Y me besas dulce mente

Lo siento pero mientes

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
Mientes mientes A2	verb - to lie, to tell an untruth
Daño daño A2	noun - harm, damage, hurt
Odiar odiar B1	verb - to hate
Ardientes ardientes B2	adjective - burning, passionate, ardent
Queman queman A2	verb - to burn
Confiada confiada B1	adjective - confident, trusting
Plácidamente plácidamente C1	adverb - placidly, peacefully
Sospechas sospechas B1	verb - to suspect
Descubrí descubrí A2	verb - to discover, to find out
Dulcemente dulcemente B2	adverb - sweetly
Mirada mirada A2	noun - gaze, look
Mezcla mezcla B1	noun - mixture, blend
Maldita maldita B2	adjective - cursed, damned
Infeliz infeliz A2	adjective - unhappy
Resigno resigno C1	verb - to resign oneself
Maldigo maldigo C1	verb - to curse

Key Grammar Structures

• Ojalá no me hablaras de amor

  ➔ Subjunctive mood (Imperfect Subjunctive) after 'Ojalá'

  ➔ Use "hablaras" (imperfect subjunctive) after 'Ojalá' to express a desire or wish about an unlikely or contrary-to-fact situation.

• Porque no sospechas que yo descubrí

  ➔ Indicative mood in subordinate clause of certainty

  ➔ The verb "descubrí" is in the indicative because it expresses a fact that the subject knows, not a doubt.

• Mientes cuando dices que me amas

  ➔ Present indicative for habitual or current actions

  ➔ Use "mientes" and "dices" (present indicative) to describe an ongoing, repeated behavior.

• ¿Para qué decirte nada?

  ➔ Infinitive construction after prepositional phrase

  ➔ After "Para qué", the verb "decir" remains in the infinitive form because it follows a preposition.

• Si te voy a amar igual

  ➔ Periphrastic future (Ir + a + infinitive)

  ➔ The structure "voy a amar" expresses a future intention or certainty using the verb "ir" conjugated in present.

• Qué me importa que es mentira

  ➔ Use of 'que' as a conjunction to introduce a noun clause

  ➔ The word "que" functions as a conjunction connecting the main clause with the subordinate fact.

• Y yo me resigno

  ➔ Reflexive verb usage

  ➔ The pronoun "me" indicates that the action of resigning oneself is directed back to the subject.

• Haber sabido, amor

  ➔ Perfect infinitive (Haber + past participle)

  ➔ The structure "haber sabido" denotes an action in the past relative to the present moment.