Imán Lyrics in English by Vanesa Martín

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Imán by Vanesa Martín from Spanish to English.

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An impromptu Sunday afternoon

In some house where I was happy

I devoured a winter and stepped aside

when they told me you were there

There where so many mouths go

That they forget who made them feel

One minute you had been my disaster

knowing you elsewhere, listening to you laugh

and you will go

And I will be

The idiot who throws herself into the sea

the overflowing wind

That knocks you down and at the same time slows you down

You go after everything that sounds bad

damn magnet

of the difficult things

of hard times

Burn the sun that has slipped through the trees

Because the fire will never know how to be subtle

The border of oblivion comes easy

The impossible to overcome

without anyone talking about you

We show so many things in life

We retain emotions for what?

I hope you don't have to come back one day

To the place where I say 'stay'

and you will go

And I will be

The idiot who throws herself into the sea

the overflowing wind

That knocks you down and at the same time slows you down

You go after everything that sounds bad

damn magnet

of the difficult things

of hard times

and you will go

And I will be

The idiot who throws herself into the sea

the overflowing wind

That knocks you down and at the same time slows you down

You go after everything that sounds bad

damn magnet

of the difficult things

of hard times

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Imán means "magnet", and in this song Vanesa Martín is cursing her own pull towards the wrong things. It starts on "una tarde de domingo improvisado" (an improvised Sunday afternoon), when someone tells her the person she loved is there. The detail that hurts is small: "saberte en otra parte, escuchándote reír" (knowing you're somewhere else, hearing you laugh).

The chorus is honest to the point of being harsh on herself: "Y tú te irás, y yo seré la idiota que se tira al mar" (and you'll leave, and I'll be the idiot who throws herself into the sea). Then she names the problem, "Maldito imán de las cosas difíciles" (damn magnet for difficult things). Maldito literally means "cursed", but here it works like an exasperated "damn". Notice the future tense in te irás and seré: she already knows how this ends. The last verse closes on "Ojalá no tengas que volver un día al lugar donde te dije 'quédate'" (I hope you never have to come back one day to the place where I told you 'stay'). Ojalá is the word Spanish speakers use for "I hope" or "if only", and quédate is the command "stay".

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