Te Espero Sentada Lyrics in English Shakira

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Te Espero Sentada by Shakira from Spanish to English.
I wait for you sitting on the usual corner
And more dressed up than if it were a Friday
With no appointment made beforehand
But with the full intuition that I'll see you
My eyes don't stop looking and looking
At the dark flint of ideas
Searching for more holes inside this hole
Searching for a light in the middle of this sky
My sky, my sky
Poor my sky
I keep my hands because I'm cold
And they feel weird inside my pocket
More than an hour and a half has already gone by
You haven't shown up, my instinct failed me
But it's that my instinct
Doesn't know about love
But it's that my instinct
Doesn't know that
Living life without you
Is something like dying
It's walking without looking
It's like singing without hearing
It's talking without breathing
It's eating without digesting
Because I found out that you're the perfect shape
The exact measure just right for me and that's how it is
My sky, my sky
Doesn't know that
Living life without you
Is something like dying
It's walking without looking
It's like singing without hearing
It's talking without breathing
It's eating without digesting
Because I found out that you're the perfect shape
The exact measure just right for me
And it's something like dying
It's walking without looking
It's like singing without feeling
It's talking without breathing
It's eating without digesting
Because I found out that you're the perfect shape
The exact measure just right for me
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Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll
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SONG MEANING

In Te Espero Sentada, Colombian superstar Shakira slips into the shoes of a hopeful romantic who gets dressed up as if it were a Friday night and heads to her usual street corner, convinced her intuition will deliver a magical reunion. While she scans every passer-by and searches for "a light in the sky," we feel both the buzz of anticipation and the quiet doubts flickering in her mind.

As the minutes stretch into more than an hour, cold fingers hide in pockets and optimism starts to crack. Shakira pours out a torrent of bold metaphors that show just how vital this love is:

  • Living without you is like dying
  • Walking becomes stumbling in the dark
  • Singing happens without hearing the melody
  • Speaking occurs without breathing
  • Eating offers no nourishment

Through these dramatic images, the song captures the bittersweet cocktail of longing, vulnerability and absolute devotion that can make waiting for someone feel both electrifying and agonizing at the same time.

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