No Me Platiques Más – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: José José

Lyrics & Translation

“No Me Platiques Más” is a quintessential Latin American ballad that offers a fantastic gateway into the romantic depth of the Spanish language. You can learn vocabulary related to intense emotion and timeless love, like *celos* (jealousy) and *pasado* (past). José José's impeccable vocal delivery, known as 'El Príncipe de la Canción' (The Prince of Song), provides a masterclass in Spanish articulation and passionate musical phrasing, making the complex lyrical themes perfectly clear.

[English]

Don't tell me anymore

What should have happened

Before we met

I know you’ve had happy moments

Even without me

I don’t want to know

What could have been

In all these years

That you’ve lived with others

Far from my love

I love you so much that I’m jealous

Even of what could have been

And I imagine that’s why

I live so uneasily

Don't tell me anymore

Let me imagine

That the past doesn’t exist

And that we were born at the same moment

That we met

...

...

I love you so much that I’m jealous

Even of what could have been

And I imagine that’s why

I live so uneasily

Don't tell me anymore

Let me imagine

That the past doesn’t exist

And that we were born at the same moment

...

We met

...

[Spanish]

No me platiques más

Lo que debió pasar

Antes de conocernos

Sé que has tenido, horas felices

Aún sin estar conmigo

No quiero yo saber

¿Qué pudo suceder?

En todos estos años

Que tú has vivido con otras gentes

Lejos de mi cariño

Te quiero tanto que me encelo

Hasta de lo que pudo ser

Y me figuro que por eso

Es que yo vivo, tan intranquilo

No me platiques más

Déjame imaginar

Que no existe el pasado

Y que nacimos el mismo instante

Que nos conocimos

Te quiero tanto que me encelo

Hasta de lo que pudo ser

Y me figuro que por eso

Es que yo vivo, tan intranquilo

No me platiques ya

Déjame imaginar

Que no existe el pasado

Y que nacimos el mismo instante

Nos conocimos

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
platicar plaˈti.kaɾ A2	verb - to chat
debido deˈβi.ðo A2	adjective - due
conocernos ko.noˈθeɾ.nos A1	verb - to know each other
feliz feˈliθ A1	adjective - happy
querer keˈɾeɾ A1	verb - to love/to want
suceder su.theˈðeɾ A2	verb - to happen
cariño kaˈriɲo A1	noun - affection
celar theˈlaɾ B1	verb - to feel jealous
figurar fi.ɣuˈɾaɾ B1	verb - to imagine
intranquilo in.tɾaŋˈki.lo B1	adjective - restless
imaginar i.ma.xiˈnaɾ A2	verb - to imagine
existir eɡ.ˈsis.tiɾ A1	verb - to exist
instante insˈtante A2	noun - instant
nacer naˈθeɾ A1	verb - to be born
gente ˈξen.te A1	noun - people

Key Grammar Structures

• No me platiques más

  ➔ Negative command with 'me' as an indirect object pronoun

  ➔ The phrase uses the indirect object pronoun 'me' to indicate the action is directed at the speaker.

• Sé que has tenido, horas felices

  ➔ Present perfect tense with 'haber' as an auxiliary verb

  ➔ The present perfect tense ('has tenido') indicates an action that occurred in the past and has relevance to the present.

• Te quiero tanto que me encelo

  ➔ Correlative conjunction 'tanto...que'

  ➔ The conjunction 'tanto...que' is used to express a cause-and-effect relationship between two clauses.

• Y me figuro que por eso

  ➔ Conjunction 'que' introducing a subordinate clause

  ➔ The conjunction 'que' is used to introduce a subordinate clause that provides additional information.

• Déjame imaginar

  ➔ Imperative mood with direct object pronoun 'me'

  ➔ The imperative mood with 'me' as a direct object pronoun is used to give a command directly to the listener.