El Destino Lyrics in English Natalia Lafourcade
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song El Destino by Natalia Lafourcade from Spanish to English.
Fate is so cruel
That it has already salted the honey
And the fields have already withered
Ice cream tastes bad
Life is darkness
If there's no King or Snow White
And Benito got lost in sadness, in pain
María felt hurt, but she recovered
My grandma says that
It's impossible to understand that life can be light
To enjoy a laugh
To walk on Earth
Without love it can be worth it
And Benito got lost in sadness, in pain
María felt hurt, but she recovered
Fate is so cruel
That it has already salted the honey
And the heart broken in two for me
Only left me
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El Destino opens with a harsh verdict: fate has salted the honey, wilted the fields, and turned ice cream sour. Natalia Lafourcade uses these images to show how everything loses flavor when love vanishes. We meet Benito - trapped in endless sorrow - and María - wounded yet slowly mending - two mirrors reflecting what a broken heart can do.
Even so, hope tiptoes in through a wise abuela who insists that life can still be ligera. Her words challenge the idea that happiness needs a prince or princess. The song swings between gloom and uplift, finally landing on a message of resilience: learn to laugh, keep walking, and trust that sweetness can return, even if destiny seems cruel.
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