Basicamente Lyrics in English by Sebastian Yatra

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Verse 1

The moon is alone

She had a planet and the hours passed

She wasn't the only one in her sea

And it's that loving is difficult when there's someone else

Venus told her

You don't deserve that they do that to you

How can he make you cry

And forget that you're the one that makes him shine?

When the sun hides, he looks at her from afar

At night they met and even if she doesn't want to see him

It's difficult when there's so much gravity

It's something that she can't avoid

Chorus 1

Basically here we are both

The moon is me, the planet is you

And you've been spinning, looking for a light

Probably the sun will rise again

But here I am, because here you are

You stay spinning, waiting for my light

Verse 2

As if it were normal

We tried and it's wrong

Because you're not capable of giving me a kiss and not leaving

Now you don't even need to be alone

You miss me, you write 'Hello'

And it's your fault if it gets out of control

But you ask me for space

We already tried, and the space remained empty

With you and the stars, I can't go slowly

With me, you crash, like a madman I save you

When I saw you among people, I suddenly understood

That we aren't so different

Chorus 2

Basically here we are both

The moon is me, the planet is you

And you've been spinning, looking for a light

Probably the sun will rise again

But here I am, because here you are

You stay spinning, waiting for my light

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estrellas — you crash

Estrellas is a fantastic example of wordplay in Spanish. While it most commonly means "stars" as a noun, here it's used as a conjugated form of the verb estrellarse, which means "to crash".

Sebastián Yatra sings, "Conmigo tú te estrellas, como un loco te salvo" (With me you crash, and like a madman I save you). This clever line plays on the song's celestial theme of stars and planets while describing a relationship that is both passionate and dangerously exciting.

Colombian pop artist Sebastián Yatra turns romantic chaos into an astronomy lesson here, and it works surprisingly well. He sets up a cosmic metaphor where one person is an isolated Moon and the other is a wandering planet. You get this dramatic dialogue where Venus steps in to give tough love: "No te mereces que hagan eso contigo" [You don't deserve them doing that to you]. Yet despite good advice, gravity pulls them right back together. He admits "es difícil cuando hay tanta gravedad" [it's hard when there's so much gravity]. It is that familiar mess where someone asks for space, only to text "Hola" [Hello] the moment they feel lonely.

Notice how Yatra plays with Spanish words around the space theme. When he sings "me pides espacio / Ya lo intentamos y quedó vacío el espacio" [you ask me for space / we already tried and the space was left empty], he puns on personal distance versus cosmic void. Then he doubles down with "estrellas": "Contigo y las estrellas yo no puedo ir despacio / Conmigo tú te estrellas" [With you and the stars I cannot go slow / With me you crash]. In Spanish, estrellas means stars, but the verb estrellarse means to crash into something. He paints this push-and-pull orbit where neither person can just give a simple kiss without things spinning out of control.

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