El Amor Lyrics in English Ricardo Arjona

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song El Amor by Ricardo Arjona from Spanish to English.

Love has an author's signature on lost causes

Love always starts dreaming and ends in insomnia

It's a deep act of faith that smells like a lie

Love dances to whatever tune it's played, be that God or the devil

Be that God or the devil

Love is the lost war between sex and laughter

It's the key that opens the faucet of water in your eyes

It's the slowest time in the world when it hurries

Love makes its way slowly, no matter the lock

Love is the arrogance of clinging to the impossible

It's looking somewhere else for what you don't find in yourself

Love is an ingrate that lifts you for a while

And drops you just because

Love is two in one that in the end are none

And they get used to lying

Love is the beauty that feeds on sadness

And in the end it always leaves

Love is almost always better when it's somewhere else

It looks good in novels that sell perfect endings

Don't go, love, because even though you hurt, I don't want to leave you

If you're always a mistake, why are your flaws never seen?

It might be that what I judge is something else, I don't know

That my luck got the impostor, I don't know either

Love is an ingrate that lifts you for a while

And drops you just because

Love is two in one that in the end are none

And they get used to lying

Love is the beauty that feeds on sadness

And in the end it always leaves

And it doesn't let you say what you want to say

Without making you know that one spits upward

It's sitting to watch pass in front of you

The deadly parade of the corpse of all your dreams

Love is an ingrate that lifts you for a while

And drops you just because

Love is two in one that in the end are none

And they get used to lying

Love is the beauty that feeds on sadness

And in the end it always leaves

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SONG MEANING

Ricardo Arjona, the celebrated singer–songwriter from Guatemala, paints love as a thrilling paradox in “El Amor.” In his lyrics, love is both divine and demonic, the spark that keeps us dreaming and the thief that robs us of sleep. It is a stubborn faith that can smell like a lie, a victorious moment that quickly crumbles, and a bittersweet beauty that feeds on sadness. Arjona lists vivid images: the water‐tap for tears, a slow-motion clock that suddenly races, and a two-in-one couple who end up as no one at all. Each metaphor underscores how love lifts us sky-high only to drop us without warning.

The song teeters between romance and disillusion, inviting listeners to question why we chase something that so often hurts. Arjona suggests that love looks flawless in storybooks, yet in real life it demands lies, leaves scars, and rarely stays. Still, even while acknowledging its flaws, the singer pleads for love not to leave, revealing our universal addiction to its thrill. “El Amor” is a witty, poetic reminder that love is the ultimate contradiction—irresistible, imperfect, and always worth another try.