Lo Que Más Lyrics in English Shakira

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Lo Que Más by Shakira from Spanish to English.
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Verse 1
How many times modesty saved us
And my desire to always look for you
Little piece of delirious love
Hanging from your neck on a rainy Saturday at five in the afternoon
God knows how hard it is for me to leave you
And I look at you while you sleep, but I'm not going to wake you up
It's that today my hope ran out
Because what's left of us isn't enough anymore
Chorus 1
You're what I've loved the most
In life, what I've loved the most
You're what I've loved the most in life
What I've loved the most
Or: What I've wanted the most
Verse 2
How many times I wanted to do it right
And I sinned by talking too much
Not knowing where, how, or when
All these years walking together
Now they don't seem so much
God knows, all the love that we swore
But today nothing is the same
We're not going to deceive ourselves anymore
It's that I'm a woman in the world
Who did everything that she could
Don't forget for a second
Chorus 2
That you're what I've loved the most
In life, what I've loved the most
You're what I've loved the most in life
What I've loved the most
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SONG MEANING

Imagine a rainy Saturday at five o’clock, your arms still looped around the person you love. That is where Shakira’s narrator begins: suspended between tenderness and loss. She revisits treasured snapshots—nervous silences saved by modesty, long walks side by side, promises whispered in the dark—and realizes that even these golden memories cannot mend what has quietly unraveled. The lyrics unfold like pages of a diary, each line confessing equal parts devotion and dawning resignation.

Lo Que Más is a heartfelt goodbye wrapped in shimmering pop. Shakira sings as a woman who has “done everything she could,” yet now understands that love alone is not always enough. Her refrain, “Eres lo que más he querido,” is both a declaration and a farewell gift, reminding her partner (and herself) that the depth of feeling was real even if the future is not. The song balances sorrow with dignity, turning a personal break-up into a universal anthem for anyone who has ever had to let go of the thing they cherished most.

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