Prometiste Lyrics in English by LA RECETA
"Prometiste" (You Promised) is a breakup song sung by someone standing at the departure gate, still begging: "Quédate un poquito más, todavía no es hora de abordar" (Stay a little longer, it's not time to board yet). From there it turns into a list of questions with no good answers: "¿Por qué dejaste de amarme?" (Why did you stop loving me?) and the sharper one, "¿O acaso todo siempre fue una mentira?" (Or was it all a lie from the start?).
The chorus is pure accusation. The singer admits "si bien me he equivocado" (sure, I've made mistakes), but he kept his side of the deal, and she forgot hers: "Se te olvidó que prometiste amarme hasta el fin del tiempo" (You forgot you promised to love me until the end of time). Watch the phrase "se te olvidó": Spanish says the thing "got forgotten on you", which makes the forgetting sound almost accidental, and that is exactly the bitter point. In the second verse she says they are "incompatible" with no shared goals, and he fires back that all of this could have been avoided "si tú me hubieras siempre hablado con la neta". La neta is Mexican slang for "the honest truth", so he is saying: if only you had been straight with me all along. It is a good song for picking up the past tenses of heartbreak.
