Una Rosa Es Una Rosa Lyrics in English Mecano

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Una Rosa Es Una Rosa by Mecano from Spanish to English.

It's because of a woman

that I'm going crazy

I can't live without her

but I can't with her either

And if from this heartbreak

I were to go to my grave

Don't send me flowers

that, as this rumba says

I wanted to cut the flower

the tenderest in the rosebush

thinking that from love

I couldn't get pricked

and while it pricked me

it taught me something

that a rose is a rose is a rose

And when I opened my hand

and let it fall

They started to bleed

the sores in my skin

and with its petals

it gently healed them for me

that a rose is a rose is a rose

but the more it heals me

a bit later it stings me even more

because to love is the start

of the word bitterness

a lie and a creed

for every thorn on the stem

that, grafting into the fingers

a rose is a rosary

I wanted to cut the flower

the tenderest in the rosebush

thinking that from love

I couldn't get pricked

and while it pricked me

it taught me something

that a rose is a rose is a rose

And when I opened my hand

and let it fall

They started to bleed

the sores in my skin

and with its petals

it gently healed them for me

that a rose is a rose is a rose

and that you put on your high heels and stomp

a rose is a rose is

I wanted to cut the flower

the tenderest in the rosebush

thinking that from love

I couldn't get pricked

and while it pricked me

it taught me something

that a rose is a rose is a rose

And when I opened my hand

and let it fall

They started to bleed

the sores in my skin

and with its petals

it gently healed them for me

that a rose is a rose is a rose

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JOSE MARIA CANO

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Una Rosa Es Una Rosa paints love as a gorgeous but thorny rose. The singer confesses he is going crazy for a woman: he cannot live without her, yet living with her hurts just as much. By trying to pluck “la flor más tierna del rosal,” he believes he can hold on to pure romance without getting hurt… until the thorns pierce his skin. The repeated line “una rosa es una rosa es una rosa” reminds us that a rose will always have both petals and thorns, just as love always carries pleasure and pain.

The song’s lively rumba rhythm and playful call to “ponte los zapatos de tacón y taconea” invite us to keep dancing even while our hearts bleed a little. Every petal soothes the wounds it just caused, showing that affection and suffering are inseparable parts of the same feeling. Mecano’s message is clear: real love is beautiful, risky, and impossible to tame—accept it for what it is, thorns and all.

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Mecano Una Rosa Es Una Rosa Lyrics