Un Año Más Lyrics in English Ana Torroja

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Un Año Más by Ana Torroja from Spanish to English.

At the Puerta del Sol

Like the year that was

Once again the champagne and the grapes and the tar

Are laid as a carpet

The firecrackers that erase sounds of yesterday

And heat the spirit up to accept

That another one has already passed

And on the old clock as from year to year

Five minutes more for the countdown

We take stock of the good and bad

Five minutes before the countdown

Sailors, soldiers, singles, married

Lovers, drifters

And one or another absent-minded priest

Among shouts and whistles the Spaniards

Big, small we manage for once

Something at the same time

And on the old clock as from year to year

Five minutes more for the countdown

We take stock of the good and bad

Five minutes before the countdown

And though for the grapes there are some new ones

The ones that aren't here we'll miss

And let's see if we wake up we who are alive

And next year we laugh

One, two, three and four and it starts again

That the fifth is one and the sixth is two

And so the seventh is three

And we say goodbye and we ask God

That next year

Let's see if instead of one million

They can be two

At the Puerta del Sol

Like the year that was

Once again the champagne and the grapes and the tar

Are laid as a carpet

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SONG MEANING

Un Año Más transports us to Madrid’s legendary Puerta del Sol on New Year’s Eve, where Spaniards gather with champagne, fireworks and the traditional doce uvas (twelve grapes). As the clock prepares to strike midnight, the song paints a vivid scene of sailors, soldiers, lovers, priests and everyday “españolitos” shoulder-to-shoulder, all sharing the same nervous excitement. Those last five minutes before the countdown become a collective pause: everyone tallies up the good and the bad of the year that is slipping away, feels the sting of missing friends and family who are no longer there, and steels themselves to laugh and live even more in the year ahead.

Far from a simple party anthem, the lyrics celebrate unity and hope. With each chime of the clock we are reminded that time rolls on no matter who we are—single, married, tall, short—yet in that fleeting moment we all move to the same rhythm. Ana Torroja turns a familiar Spanish ritual into a universal message: acknowledge the past, cherish the present crowd around you and wish for bigger dreams (“a ver si en vez de un millón pueden ser dos”) when the calendar flips. It is a sparkling toast to renewal, togetherness and the promise that life will “start again” with the very next beat of the clock. Enjoy the music, feel the confetti and let the song nudge you into your own fresh start.

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Ana Torroja Un Año Más Lyrics