Shakira

Hips Don’t Lie - Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean

Ladies up in here tonight
No fighting, no fighting
We got the refugees up in here
No fighting, no fighting

Shakira, Shakira

I never really knew that she could dance like this
She makes a man wants to speak Spanish
Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa
Shakira, Shakira

Oh baby when you talk like that
You make a woman go mad
So be wise and keep on
Reading the signs of my body

And I’m on tonight
You know my hips don’t lie
And I’m starting to feel it’s right
The attraction, the tension
Don’t you see baby, this is perfection

Hey Girl, I can see your body moving
And it’s driving me crazy
And I didn’t have the slightest idea
Until I saw you dancing

And when you walk up on the dance floor
Nobody can let you go the way you move your body, girl
And everything so unexpected - the way you right and left it
So you can keep on shaking it

I never really knew that she could dance like this
She makes a man want to speak Spanish
Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa
Shakira, Shakira

Oh baby when you talk like that
You make a woman go mad
So be wise and keep on
Reading the signs of my body

And I’m on tonight
You know my hips don’t lie
And I am starting to feel you boy
Come on lets go, real slow
Don’t you see baby asi es perfecto

Oh I know I am on tonight my hips don’t lie
And I am starting to feel it’s right
The attraction, the tension
Don’t you see baby, this is perfection
Shakira, Shakira

Oh boy, I can see your body moving
Half animal, half man
I don’t, don’t really know what I’m doing
But you seem to have a plan
My will and self restraint
Have come to fail now, fail now
See, I am doing what I can, but I can’t so you know
That’s a bit too hard to explain

Baila en la calle de noche
Baila en la calle de día

Baila en la calle de noche
Baila en la calle de día

I never really knew that she could dance like this
She makes a man want to speak Spanish
Como se llama, bonita, mi casa, su casa
Shakira, Shakira

Oh baby when you talk like that
You know you got me hypnotized
So be wise and keep on
Reading the signs of my body

Senorita, feel the conga, let me see you move like you come from Colombia

Mira en Barranquilla se baila así, se!
Mira en Barranquilla se baila así

Yeah
She’s so sexy every man’s fantasy a refugee like me back with the Fugees from a 3rd world country
I go back like when ‘pac carried crates for Humpty Humpty
I need a whole club dizzy
Why the CIA wanna watch us?
Colombians and Haitians
I ain’t guilty, it’s a musical transaction
No more do we snatch ropes
Refugees run the seas ’cause we own our own boats

I’m on tonight, my hips don’t lie
And I’m starting to feel you boy
Come on let’s go, real slow
Baby, like this is perfecto

Oh, you know I am on tonight and my hips don’t lie
And I am starting to feel it’s right
The attraction, the tension
Baby, like this is perfection

No fighting!
No fighting!

Shakira, Wyclef Jean, Lyrics, Duet, Hips Don’t Lie

Here’s the English translation of La Tortura.
And here’s the link to La Tortura - Spanish Lyrics

La Tortura - Shakira feat. Alejandro Sanz
English Lyrics - Translation

Alejandro:
Ay my payita
Save the poetry
Save the happiness to yourself

(Ay give it, give it, give it to me)

Shakira:
I don’t ask every day to be sunny
I don’t ask that there be a party every Friday
Nor do I ask you to come back begging forgiveness
If you’re crying with dry eyes,
And speaking about her

Shakira:
Oh my love, it hurts so much

Alejandro:
It hurts so much

Shakira:
That you left without saying where to
Oh my love, losing you was a torture

Alejandro:
I know I haven’t been a saint
But I can make it up to you, baby

Shakira:
Man doesn’t live by bread alone
Nor do I live by excuses

Alejandro:
We only learn from mistakes
And today I know my heart is yours

Shakira:
You better save all that for yourself
Take that bone to some other dog
And let’s say goodbye

I can’t ask the winter to spare a rose bush
I can’t ask the elm trees to bear pears
I can’t ask the eternal to a mere mortal
And go about casting thousands of pearls before swine

Alejandro:
Oh my love, it hurts so much
It hurts so much
That you no longer trust my promises

Shakira:
Oh my love

Alejandro Sanz:
It’s a torture

Shakira:
Losing you

Alejandro Sanz:
I know I haven’t been a saint
But I can make it up to you, baby

Shakira:
Man doesn’t live by bread alone
Nor do I live by excuses

Alejandro:
We only learn from mistakes
And today I know my heart is yours

Shakira:
You better save all that for yourself
Take that bone to some other dog
And let’s say goodbye

Alejandro:
(Oh give it, give it, give it to me)

Don’t you go, Don’t you go
Listen, baby, look, don’t give up on me
From Monday to Friday you have my love
You better leave the Saturday to me
Listen baby, don’t punish me anymore
Because out there without you I have no peace
I’m just a repentant man
I’m like the bird that returns to its nest

I know I haven’t been a saint
And that’s because I’m not made of carton

Shakira:
Man doesn’t live by bread alone
Nor do I live by excuses

Alejandro:
We only learn from mistakes
And today I know my heart is yours

Shakira:
Ay ay ay,
Ay ay ay,
Ay, all I have done for you
It was torture losing you
It hurts me so much that it is like this
Keep on crying for forgiveness
I…
I’m not going
To cry for you today
_____________________

Note: Payo/a is a word used by Gypsies - specially in Spain - to refer to non-gypsy people. Payita is a diminutive used to refer to non-gypsy women.

Shakira, Alejandro Sanz, Lyrics, Duet, La Tortura, English, Translation

Tomorrow I’ll post the English translation of La tortura.

La Tortura - Shakira feat. Alejandro Sanz

Alejandro:
Ay payita mía
Guárdate la poesía
Guárdate la alegría pa’ti
(ay dame dame damelo)

Shakira:
No pido que todos los días sean de sol
No pido que todos los viernes sean de fiesta
Tampoco te pido que vuelvas rogando perdón
Si lloras con dos ojos secos
Y hablando de ella

Shakira:
Ay amor me duele tanto

Alejandro:
Me duele tanto

Shakira:
Que te fueras sin decir a dónde
Ay amor, fue una tortura perderte

Alejandro:
Yo se que no he sido un santo
Pero lo puedo arreglar amor

Shakira:
No solo de pan vive el hombre
Y no de excusas vivo yo.

Alejandro:
Sólo de errores se aprende
Y hoy sé que es tuyo mi corazón

Shakira:
Mejor te guardas todo eso
A otro perro con ese hueso
Y nos decimos adiós

No puedo pedir que el invierno perdone a un rosal
No puedo pedir a los olmos que entreguen peras
No puedo pedirle lo eterno a un simple mortal
Y andar arrojando a los cerdos miles de perlas

Alejandro:
Ay amor me duele tanto
Me duele tanto
Que no creas más en mis promesas

Shakira:
Ay amor

Alejandro Sanz:
Es una tortura

Shakira:
Perderte

Alejandro Sanz:
Yo sé que no he sido un santo
Pero lo puedo arreglar amor

Shakira:
No sólo de pan vive el hombre
Y no de excusas vivo yo.

Alejandro:
Sólo de errores se aprende
Y hoy sé que es tuyo mi corazón

Shakira:
Mejor te guardas todo eso
A otro perro con ese hueso
Y nos decimos adiós

Alejandro:
(ay dame dame damelo)

No te bajes, no te bajes
Oye negrita mira, no te rajes
De lunes a viernes tienes mi amor
Déjame el sábado a mi que es mejor
Oye mi negra no me castigues más
Porque allá afuera sin ti no tengo paz
Yo sólo soy un hombre arrepentido
Soy como el ave que vuelve a su nido

Yo se que no he sido un santo
y es que no estoy hecho de cartón

Shakira:
No sólo de pan vive el hombre
Y no de excusas vivo yo.

Alejandro:
Sólo de errores se aprende
Y hoy sé que es tuyo mi corazón

Shakira:
Ay ay ay,
Ay ay ay,
Ay, todo lo que he hecho por tí
Fue una tortura perderte
y me duele tanto que sea así
Sigue llorando perdón
Yo… yo no voy
A llorar hoy por tí

Shakira, Alejandro Sanz, Lyrics, Duet, La Tortura, Spanish

Here’s my translation of Alejandro Sanz and Shakira’s song, I hope you like it. You can find the Spanish lyrics here:

“Te lo Agradezco, Pero No“.

Thank You, But No

Come close, that maybe
You don’t realize my love
Is not forever
‘Cause some nights shut down while you sleep.
Tell your heart
There will be no more sources of pain
Don’t say I don’t think about you
I don’t do anything but thinking
Come a little closer
Don’t be afraid of the truth

Ay, and when the morning comes and the sun rises
You’ll come back to my side
And then I won’t…
And now go, go, go, go
Go away and have a good time
For the both of us

No, baby
Thank you, but no
Look, little girl, thank you, but no
I’ve already left you aside
I don’t do anything but forgetting you

Thank you, but no
Look, little girl, thank you, but no
(Thank you honey, but no, you know it’s no)

Come a little closer
Don’t you see the time is escaping from us
Unchain what you feel
If you don’t, too bad
‘Cause in the end, if you don’t see it
It’s possible that you don’t listen to me
But I will say…

That ‘ay’, when the sun rises and the morning comes
I’ll come back to your side, to your side
With more desire
And now go, go, go, go
Go away and have a good time
For the both of us

Thank you, but no
Look, little boy, thank you, but no
I’ve already left you aside
I don’t do anything but forgetting you

Thank you, but no
Look, little boy, thank you, but no
I’ve already left you aside
I don’t do anything but forgetting you

I am aware
Of how I’ve hurt you
But at the same time I don’t feel responsible
For what you could think was courage
Was just fear

Thank you, but no
Look, little boy, thank you, but no
I’ve already left you aside
I don’t do anything but forgetting you

Thank you, but no
Look, little boy, thank you, but no
I’ve already left you aside
I don’t do anything but forgetting you…

Alejandro Sanz & Shakira

Shakira, Alejandro Sanz, Lyrics, Duet, Te lo agradezco, pero no, Thank you but no, Translation

You can’t write a music blog without some lyrics, right? Besides, Shakira’s lyrics are so beautiful and poetic… I really like them (well, most of them - from time to time Shakira and I just agree to disagree about some lyrics :P), so I’ll be sharing some translations with you.

Here’s the Spanish lyrics from Shakira an Alejandro Sanz latest collaboration, Te Lo Agradezco, Pero No (Thank you, but no). Tomorrow I’ll post the English translation. Enjoy!

Te Lo Agradezco, Pero No - Alejandro Sanz & Shakira

Acércate que a lo mejor
No te das cuenta que mi amor
No es para siempre
Porque hay noches que se apagan cuando duermes
Díselo a tu corazón
No habrá mas fuente de dolor
No digas que no pienso en ti
No hago otra cosa que pensar
Acércate un poco más
No tengas miedo a la verdad

Ay, y cuando llegue la mañana y salga el sol
Tu volverás a mi lado
Y ya no yo
Y ahora vete, vete, vete, vete
Vete y pásatelo bien
Por nosotros dos

No, corazón,
Te lo agradezco, pero no
Te lo agradezco, mira niña, pero no
Yo ya logré dejarte aparte
No hago otra cosa que olvidarte

Te lo agradezco, pero no
Te lo agradezco, mira niña, pero no
(Te lo agradezco corazón, pero no, tú sabes bien que no)

Acércate un poco más
No ves que el tiempo se nos va
Da rienda suelta a lo que sientes
Si no lo haces, mala suerte
Porque al final, si no lo ves
Puede que no me escuches
Pero lo diré…

Que ay, cuando salga el sol y llegue la mañana
Yo volveré a tu lado, a tu lado
Con más ganas
Y ahora vete, vete, vete, vete
Vete y pásatelo bien
Por los dos

Te lo agradezco, pero no
Te lo agradezco, mira niño, pero no
Yo ya logré dejarte aparte
No hago otra cosa que olvidarte

Te lo agradezco, pero no
Te lo agradezco, mira niño, pero no
Yo ya logré dejarte aparte
No hago otra cosa que olvidarte

Tengo consciencia
Del daño que te hice
Pero al mismo tiempo no me siento responsable
De lo que pudiste pensar que fue coraje,
No fue nada más que miedo

Te lo agradezco, pero no
Te lo agradezco, mira niño, pero no
Yo ya logré dejarte aparte
No hago otra cosa que olvidarte

Te lo agradezco, pero no
Te lo agradezco, mira niño, pero no
Yo ya logré dejarte aparte
No hago otra cosa que olvidarte…

Shakira, Alejandro Sanz, Lyrics, Duet, Te lo agradezco, pero no