PERLA NEGRA Lyrics in English Recycled J , Leo Rizzi

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song PERLA NEGRA by Recycled J from Spanish to English.

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Your eyes, a Black Pearl

Your feeling, a curse

The color of the full moon

Isn't felt when you're around

Your face is the prettiest thing that I've seen

For playing dumb I got too smart

The Mary Magdalene of Christ, yeah

The cheese in a mixed sandwich

What you are to me, I take it to the morgue

With you I was a jerk, an idiot, a klutz

You didn't care about the roses that I bought you

The pure and the cut mattered more to you than me

And that breaks me

Into a thousand pieces, the heart

And that breaks me

Yours is a scandal

And that breaks me

Your name written on me, like on a passport

It seemed that you knew my quirks and disorder

You knew how to tell Recycled from Jorge

You left all at once, I don't know when or why

Whether you flew off or had a layover in London

There was nobody at the wheel, nor cash for the Corvette

I had so much to give you, like Nena Daconte

But the goat heads to the hill and I'm a b*stard

And that breaks you

Into a thousand pieces, the heart

And that breaks me

Yours is a scandal

And that breaks me

I try to escape

Close to the sea

You're a timeless work of art

I'm not at all flashy, you'll know it

Everything I've lived with you

Between you and me, the Berlin Wall

Nothing stops the time in the city, frenzy

Hours go by, tear after tear

Since the day that I saw you

And that breaks me

Your eyes, a Black Pearl

Your feeling, a curse

The color of the full moon

Isn't felt when you're around

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Perla Negra — Black Pearl

Perla Negra literally translates to "Black Pearl". This beautiful and mysterious phrase is the title of the song and its central metaphor for a rare and captivating love.

Recycled J opens the song by comparing his lover's eyes to this precious gem: "Tus ojos, una Perla Negra" (Your eyes, a Black Pearl). This sets a poetic and intense tone, describing someone who is uniquely beautiful, valuable, and perhaps a little dark and mysterious.

PERLA NEGRA is a poetic confession wrapped in urban pop. Recycled J and Leo Rizzi paint the picture of a dazzling woman whose “black-pearl” eyes eclipse everything around her. She is precious, almost sacred, yet the relationship feels cursed. The singer showers her with vivid comparisons – from Mary Magdalene to the best part of a grilled-cheese sandwich – to show how completely she owns his attention. Despite the romance, he admits he acted “un borde, un estúpido, un torpe,” letting pride and bad decisions build a Berlin Wall between them.

Each chorus punches in with “Y eso me rompe,” an unfiltered cry that love and guilt are shattering his heart. The track swings between admiration and self-reproach, celebrating her timeless beauty while acknowledging that his own reckless nature pushed her away. It is a bittersweet anthem for anyone who has ever lost something priceless and realized it only when it was gone.

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