Blending Ame has started a competition with me…the search for a greatest love song. As an example, I mentioned “You Are My Shining Star” by The Manhattans. She countered with some great selections of her own: “Close to You” by The Carpenters and “Endless Love.”
Let me throw another song in the mix. It’s by Joan Manuel Serrat, a Spanish writer that few Americans know. His song is called “The Woman I Love.” Lyrically…it’s perfect; it captures the lofty heights of emotion:
“The Woman I Love” by Joan Manuel Serrat: See Video for Music
The woman I love, doesn’t need tobathe herself each evening in holy water.She has many flaws, says my mother,and too many bones, says my fatherBut she is more true than bread and earth.My love is a love from before the warin order to know it…The woman I love, doesn’t need topluck the petals of a daisy every night.The woman I love, is a succulent fruitrooted in my soul just like anything else.My friends want her to cheat on meand my enemies’ lives are embittered…because without intention, her lullaby envelops youand against her warmth, pride is lostand shame…The woman I love, is succulent fruithappily ripening, sweet and conceited.The woman I love, tied me to her yoke,in order to sow the field from end to endfrom a love that speaks to us with the sage’s voiceand has a woman’s skin and lips
They’re all gone my previous companions…My dog, my Scalextric and my lovers.Poor little Juan!The woman I love, tied me to her yoke:but, please, don’t say anything to her.
We see the influence of Neruda: the focus on the sensual, the sacred connection between body and mind. And the Spanish language is perfect for the music – melodious and fluid. Can you feel this way? Do you still have it in you?
There’s a big difference between being sexual and being sensual – and we need more of the latter.
Major Styles 
haha! i didn’t know it was a competition 🙂
this song is very beautiful. i wish i knew spanish, esp living in texas.
A friendly competition, mind you. 🙂
latin people know sensual; i think they’re born with it 🙂
this is beautiful:
Somos Novios (It’s Impossible) Lyrics
Artist: Andrea Bocelli (Buy Andrea Bocelli CDs)
Album: Amore
(Armando Manzanero Canche)
Somos novios
Pues, los dos sentimos mutuo amor
profundo
Y con eso
Ya ganamos lo más grande
de este mundo
Nos amamos, nos besamos
Como novios, nos deseamos
Y hasta veces sin motivos,
sin razón
Nos enojamos
Somos novios
Mantenemos un cariño limpio y puro
Como todos
Procuramos el momento más oscuro
Para hablarnos,
Para darnos el más dulce
de los besos
Recordar de que color
son los cerezos
Sin hacer más comentarios
Somos novios
It’s just impossible
Nos amamos, nos besamos
Como novios, nos deseamos
Y hasta veces sin motivos,
sin razón
Nos enojamos
sin motivos, sin razón
Somos novios
Mantenemos un cariño limpio y puro
Como todos, como todos
Procuramos el momento más oscuro
Para hablarnos,
Para darnos el más dulce
de los besos
Recordar de que color
son los cerezos
Sin hacer más comentarios
Somos novios
Somos novios
Siempre novios
Somos novios
English translation:
We Are A Couple
We are a couple
because, we both feel mutual profound
love
And with that
We have won the biggest thing
of this world
We love, we kiss each other
Like a couple, We desire each other
And some times without reasons,
without motive
We get angry
We are a couple
We maintain a clean and pure affection
Like everyone
We look for the darkest moment
To speak to each other,
To give each other the sweetest
of the kisses
To remember what color
are the cherry trees
Without making further comments
We are a couple
It’s just impossible
We love, we kiss each other
Like a couple, We desire each other
And some times without reasons,
without motive!
We get angry
without reasons, without motive
We are a couple
We maintain a clean and pure affection
Like everyone, like everyone
We look for the darkest moment
To speak to each other,
To give each other the sweetest
of the kisses
To remember what color
are the cherry trees
Without making further comments
We are a couple
We are a couple
Always a couple
Fantastic. I don’t know that one, but it’s great.
Have you heard of Ricardo Arjona? He’s great. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRtW_T30Llc
And the live version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7W3oe_dwIc
no, i had not heard that one before. beautiful, sad. real.
“I’m in between of who I am and who you want me to be” … that’s a pretty powerful lyric.
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It Was You
Versions: #1#2
It was you
To have you was your pictures in my wallet
A kiss and seeing you disappear on the road,
Yours was the intermittent and the melancholy
Mine was to accept everything because I loved you
Seeing you arrive was light, seeing leave was blues
It was you
It goes without saying that needless to say, so many things
learn to love the thrones or don’t accept the roses
I never told a lie, or created a blackmail
The gray clouds also form part of the scenery
Don’t look at me like that, if there was a guilty one here
It was you.
**
how easy was it touch the sky the first time
when the kisses where the motor of ignition
that turned on the light, that disappears
That’s how love disguises it’s self for it’s convenience
Accepting everything without asking questions
And letting time, be the final death
Nothing more to say,
just to insist
Say it….
It was you,
The neon lights in the street, know how tired I am
They have seen me walk barefoot at dawn
I’m in between of who I am and who you want me to be
Wanting to wake up, thinking how I really don’t want to
Don’t look at me like that, if there was a guilty one here
It was you.
**how easy was it touch the sky the first time
when the kisses where the motor of ignition
that turned on the light, that disappears
That’s how love disguises it’s self for it’s convenience
Accepting everything without asking questions
And letting time, be the final death
Nothing more to say,
just to insist
**how easy was it touch the sky the first time
when the kisses where the motor of ignition
that turned on the light, that disappears
That’s how love disguises it’s self for it’s convenience
Accepting everything without asking questions
And letting time, be the final death
Nothing more to say,
just to insist
It was you.
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Yes, sad…but I think in a beautiful way. Just two people that tried to fit together, work sometimes, but inevitably were fated not to be. It happens….
I love the chorus on that song.
it really is beautiful.
does it loose any in the translation to english?
It does lose a bit, but the gist is still on point.
“There’s a big difference between being sexual and being sensual – and we need more of the latter.”
Right on! There’s more power to sensuality, anyway. Sexuality is the sledgehammer; sensuality the whip.
Listen Ma.Ss — Major Styles — I have been neglecting you something horrible. I am going through some serious turbulence in my life. We’ll hook up soon enough. Be patient with me, and I’ll be patient with you.
— Sorcerygod
I have faith in you, sir. Stay strong my friend and you shall pull through.