IV of Spades - Konsensya (English translation)

English

Translation

Conscience

Look at me now

My God1, are you two2 finished?

(My God, are you two finished?)

Is there no more

Shame3 left when you're tempted?

(Shame left when you're tempted)

I'm willing to make a fool of myself

As long as I'm with you

Is it really just me

Or do you like someone else

That you're not getting

From what I give

How are you perhaps

I am still waiting for you

And in my imagination

Your arms are around theirs4

I'll just close my eyes

Pretend I don't know

Is it really just me

Or do you like someone else

That you're not getting

From what I give

I don't want to lose you (I don't want to lose you)

I always endure it (I don't wanna endure anymore)

Even if you always leave (please don't leave anymore)

As long as you come home to me

Even if you do this every night

We'll just share5 instead

(As long as you come home to me)

(Even if you do this every night)

(We'll just share instead)

1. "Jusko" is a shortening of "Diyos ko" ("my God")
2. "Kayo" is the plural second-person pronoun in Filipino, and the song implies a relationship between the addressee and another person, so it is specified with "you two"
3. "Konsensya" is the nativized loanword form for "conscience", but is often used to mean "shame" when referring to something done shamelessly
4. All Filipino personal pronouns, including "kanya" (a form of "siya", the third-person singular pronoun), are gender neutral. This translation uses the singular "they".
5. "Kami" ("we") is the exclusive form of the first-person plural pronoun in Filipino, implying the singer is talking about himself and the other person possibly being in love with the person the song is addressed to, not the singer and the addressee

Filipino/Tagalog

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