Spectacular
Sensational
Spectacular
I will get lost
I'll get lost in the whirlwind of love
I'll climb aboard
I'll climb aboard a tornado of color
I'll mix up
I'll mix up what is north and what is south
I'll renounce that version of the past where you...
...you said goodbye.
I'll escape
I'll escape like Dorothy headed for Oz
I'll discover
I'll discover that the magician is just an illusion
I'll choose
I'll choose between the darkness (or ignorance) and the light
and I'll cry about a present where you...
...you are fiction.
It's a gale
that will make my fear tremble
Spectacular
A monumental commotion
that will mix up the good with the bad
Everything in this plan
Spectacular
A total cyclone
with lightning and with thunder
Spectacular
A festival of fire
And it'll echo, booming
It'll shake all the way to the sky
Spectacular
Sensational
I'll get on and ride
I'll ride a neon rainbow
and I'll travel
and I'll travel to Las Vegas, Mars, or Benidorm (city in Spain)
And I'll decide
And I'll decide on heads or tails (literally "face or cross")
I'll opt for a future where you...
...you are fiction.
It's a gale
that will make my fear tremble
Spectacular
A monumental commotion
that will mix up the good with the bad
Everything in this plan
Spectacular
A total cyclone
with lightning and with thunder
Spectacular
A festival of fire
And it'll echo, booming
It'll shake all the way to the sky
Spectacular
Sensational
Specta-cular
Specta-cular
Specta-cular
Specta-cular
A total cyclone
It'll shake all the way to the sky
Spectacular
Sensational
MercurioHirviendo
Mon, 17/09/2018 - 01:30
My native language is English, and a high priority for me in writing this translation was to use cognates (etymologically related words) as often as possible. This helps me to learn both English and Spanish vocabulary, so I think it will be helpful to people studying either language. However, it loses a lot of "poetry" when I select vocabulary in this manner.
Unlike most of my translations, I actually relaxed the rule above in order to avoid repetitive language in English. Many of the Spanish words refer to turning repeatedly, so "cyclone" is basically the only case where I used an English cognate. I even added "tornado" in my English version in order to avoid using the same English words repeatedly. Tornado is a word of Spanish origin, which is ironic, in my opinion. If I were to do it again, I might use English words that share parallel morphemes, as was done in Spanish. Perhaps "swirling", "twirling", "curling", and "whirlwind". And maybe "twisting", if I can sneak it in beside "twirling".