ESPAÑOL (Porque te vas)
Porque te vas Porque – Because te – you vas – going, leaving
Hoy en mi ventana brilla el sol
Y un corazón se pone triste
Contemplando la ciudad
¿Porque te vas?
Como en cada noche desperté
Pensando en ti
Rough Translation INGLES (Because You’re Leaving)
IR – to go, to leave PHRASE: Because you are leaving
(voy, vas, va, vamos, vaïs, van)
Hoy – Today en mi – on my ventana – window brilla – Today on my window shines the sun
shine el sol – the sun
Brilla - BRILLAR – to shine
And Un corazón – a heart se pone – you put triste – And a heart gets sad
sadness
se pone triste (collectively) – it becomes or gets sad
PONER – to get, become
Contemplando – to gaze at la ciudad – the city To look at the city
Because you are leaving?
Como – as or like, since or if en cada – in each noche Since then (or like) each night I awake
– night desperté – I awake
Desperté is the preterite form in first person singular
of DESPERTAR – to wake up
SpanishDict: The Spanish preterite tense (el pretérito)
is used to describe actions completed at a point in
the past.
Pensando – thinking en – in/on ti – you Phrase translated collectively:
Pensando en ti (collectively and informally) – Thinking Thinking of you
of you

Y en mi reloj todas las horas vi pasar
¿Porque te vas?
Todas las promesas de mi amor se irán contigo
Me olvidarás, me olvidarás
Junto a la estación yo lloraré igual que un niño
PENSAR - to think
en mi reloj – on my watch todas – all las horas – the And on my watch all the hours I see pass by
hours vi – to see pasar – to pass, to happen
Vi is the Preterit, first person singular form (Yo) of
VER – to see
Because you are leaving?
Todas las promesas de mi amor – all the promises of All the promises of my love they will go with
my love se - they irán – go, will go contigo – with you you.
Irán (no país) – is the Future conjugation
(Ellos/Ellas/Uds.) of IR – to go
Me – me, myself olvidarás – will forget
Olvidarás is the Future conjugation (Tú) of I will forget
OLVIDAR – to forget
Junto – together, nearby or next to a la estación – to Next to the station, I will cry like a child
the station yo – I lloraré – will cry igual – like que –
that un niño – a child
Lloraré is the Future conjugation (Yo) of
LLORAR – to cry
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¿Porque te vas?
¿Porque te vas?
Bajo la penumbra de un farol se dormirán
Todas las cosas que quedaron por decir, se dormirán
Junto a las manillas de un reloj esperarán
Todas las horas que quedaron por vivir, esperarán
Porque – Because te – you vas – going, leaving
IR – to go, to leave Because you are leaving?
(voy, vas, va, vamos, vaïs, van)
Bajo – (adj.) low, short, (prep.) under or underneath la Underneath the half-light (or twilight) of a
penumbra – semi-darkness, half-light de un farol – of lantern they will sleep
a lantern se – him/her/itself, themselves or they
dormirán – will sleep
Dormirán is the Future conjugation (Ellas/Ellos/Uds.)
of DORMIR – to sleep
Todas las cosas – all the things que - that quedaron – All the things that have been left to say, they
have been left or had stayed por – by, because of decir will sleep
– to say, to tell se dormirán – they will sleep
Quedaron is the Preterit conjugation
(Ellos/Ellas/Uds.) of QUEDAR – to be left, to stay
Junto – next a las manillas – to the handles de un reloj Next to the handles of watch they will wait
– of a watch esperarán – they will wait or wait
Esperarán is the Future conjugation (Ellos/Ellas/Uds.)
of ESPERAR – to wait for, to hope
Todas las promesas de mi amor se irán contigo All the promises of my love they will go with
you.
Me olvidarás, me olvidarás I will forget, I will forget
Junto a la estación yo lloraré igual que un niño Next to the station, I will cry like a child
¿Porque te vas? Because you are leaving?
¿Porque te vas?
Because you are leaving?
¿Porque te vas?
¿Porque te vas? Because you are leaving?
All the promises of my love they will go with
Todas las promesas de mi amor se irán contigo
you.
I will forget, I will forget
Me olvidarás, me olvidarás
Next to the station, I will cry like a child
Junto a la estación yo lloraré igual que un niño
Because you are leaving?
¿Porque te vas?
Because you are leaving?
¿Porque te vas?
All the promises of my love they will go with
Todas las promesas de mi amor se irán contigo
you.
I will forget, I will forget
Me olvidarás, me olvidarás
Next to the station I will cry like that of a child
Junto a la estación yo lloraré igual que un niño

Because you are leaving?

¿Porque te vas?
Because you are leaving?
¿Porque te vas?
¿Porque te vas? Because you are leaving?
¿Porque te vas?