Yo Era Poesía – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Alejandro Sanz, Eden Muñoz

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the lyrical beauty of Spanish through 'Yo Era Poesía.' This song is perfect for learners looking to master romantic expressions and poetic metaphors, offering a unique window into how emotion is woven into language through the blend of Pop and Regional Mexican styles.

[English]

I am the promise

That shouldn't be made if it won't be kept

You are the answer

To a thousand questions of why it didn't work

You are that day that starts off wrong

A story that began from the end

Set in your ways

Always doing whatever you felt like

I am all or nothing

You wanted a book, but with just two words

I was already satisfied

A damn "I love you" that never arrived

A life together that never happened

You were beautiful, I was proud

You should've warned me so we could both play the game

And now what are we going to do

Pretend we don't exist, that nothing happened?

You were a hurricane showing your power

I was the lighthouse holding on without knowing why

You had to crash or break me, my love

I was poetry and you didn't know how to read

Your love is a cliff, but it led to the sea

Your ocean was cold and I didn't know how to swim

You confused love with simple company

And I put up with everything because I loved you

You were beautiful, I was proud

You should've warned me so we could both play the game

And now what are we going to do

Pretend we don't exist, that nothing happened

You were a hurricane showing your power

I was the lighthouse holding on without knowing why

You had to crash or break me, my love

I was poetry and you didn't know how to read

Your love is a cliff, but it led to the sea

Your ocean was cold and I didn't know how to swim

You confused love with simple company

And I put up with everything because I loved you

I was the lighthouse holding on without knowing why

You had...

Why couldn't it be?

But it led to the sea

Why couldn't it be?

You confused love with simple company

Why couldn't it be?

[Spanish]

Yo soy la promesa

Que si no se cumple no se debe hacer

Tú eres la respuesta

A las mil preguntas del porqué no fue

Tú eres ese día que comienza mal

Una historia que empezó por el final

Malacostumbrada

Siempre a hacer las cosas que te dan la gana

Yo soy todo o nada

Tú querías un libro y yo con dos palabras

Ya me conformaba

Un maldito "te quiero" que jamás llegó

Una vida juntos que nunca se dio

Hermosa tú, altivo yo

Hubieras avisado pa jugar los dos

Y ahora qué vamos a hacer

¿Fingir que no existimos, que nada pasó?

Tú eras huracán demostrando poder

Yo el faro que aguantaba sin saber por qué

Tenías que estrellarte o abatirme, vida

Yo era poesía y no sabías leer

Tu amor es precipicio, pero daba al mar

Tu océano frío y yo no sabía nadar

Tú confundiendo amor con simple compañía

Y te aguantaba todo porque te quería

Hermosa tú, altivo yo

Hubieras avisado pa jugar los dos

Y ahora qué vamos a hacer

Fingir que no existimos que nada pasó

Tú eras huracán demostrando poder

Yo el faro que aguantaba sin saber por qué

Tenías que estrellarte o abatirme, vida

Yo era poesía y no sabías leer

Tu amor es precipicio, pero daba al mar

Tu océano frío y yo no sabía nadar

Tú confundiendo amor con simple compañía

Y te aguantaba todo porque te quería

Yo el faro que aguantaba sin saber por qué

Tenías

¿Por qué no pudo ser?

Pero daba al mar

¿Por qué no pudo ser?

Tú confundiendo amor con simple compañía

¿Por qué no pudo ser?

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
promesa pro-me-sa A2	noun - promise
respuesta res-pues-ta A1	noun - answer
historia is-to-ria A1	noun - story
malacostumbrada ma-la-kos-tum-bra-da B2	adjective - spoiled / accustomed to bad habits
conformaba kon-for-ma-ba B1	verb - to be satisfied / to settle for
hermosa er-mo-sa A1	adjective - beautiful
altivo al-ti-vo C1	adjective - haughty / proud
avisado a-vi-sa-do B1	verb - warned / notified
fingir fin-hir B2	verb - to pretend
huracán u-ra-kan B2	noun - hurricane
faro fa-ro B2	noun - lighthouse
estrellarte es-tre-yar-te B1	verb - to crash
poesía po-e-si-a A2	noun - poetry
precipicio pre-si-pi-sio B2	noun - cliff / precipice
océano o-se-a-no A2	noun - ocean