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Se Quiere, Se Mata Lyrics
Shakira I. Mebarak y Luis F. Ochoa
Braulio tiene ojos grandes y cabellos oscuros,
nunca come en exceso y jamás duerme desnudo
siempre viste de gris, pues no tiene remedio
la tendencia a buscarse siempre el punto intermedio.
Dana es nina de bien (eso dicen sus padres)
nunca llega a su casa a más de diez ni muy tarde,
Braulio y Dana se quieren como cualquier pareja
pero un día fueron presa de la naturaleza
y de sus propios instintos,
no escaparon con suerte.
Con el fuego por dentro
y las hormonas presentes
por la ley del magneto
se acercaron los cuerpos.
Pero si a la hora del té
nada pasa,
solo te iras lejos de casa
por haber traido un habitante más
a ingresar a esta podrida ciudad
donde lo que no se quiere se mata.
Ese día llegaste un poco más de las diez
pero el susto se dió unas semanas despúes
cuando te confirmaron tus terribles sospechas
un nino nacería y ya sabias la fecha
y antes de que el vecino y la familia superian
fuiste donde el doctor a acabar con el problema
hoy tu vecino esta en casa dándose un buen duchazo
y tu dos metros bajo tierra viendo crecer gusanos.
(CORO)
i understand the explanation of why dana might have died, but i still think the baby was the only one who died...
'Con el fuego por dentro y las hormonas presentes por la ley del magneto se acercaron los cuerpos.' la mejor parte de la cancion... segun yo :)
My friend Astrid loves this song. I do not speak Spanish, nor have I ever found a translation... Let me do so now.
Basically this song is about two young teenagers in love, Braulio and Dana.
They fall in love, sleep together and everything seems to be okay shortly after. Dana becomes pregnant and has an abortion. The abortion goes badly and Dana dies, Braulio is still alive.
Sorry - I can't explain very well lol But that's basically what it's about. I think Dana dies, at least, some people think differently. But that's the thing about Shakira's songs, they are so unique that they can make people think different things about them.
I agree with your explanation (theinfinitesadness), but i think the only person that died was the baby. I dont know, i cant figure out where it suggests Dana's death.
first it describes Braulio(big eyes, dark hair etc.), then it decribes Dana (a good girl acording to her parents, never comes home late). Next it goes on describing that Braulio and Dana love eachother but one day they were caught by natures ways and they had sex. Later Dana finds out shes pregnant and before the "neighbors"(all the people around her) know about it she went to the doctor to "end the problem"/have an abortion. This goes wrong and Dana dies.
The song says to Dana "your neighbor is home taking a good shower and you're two meters underground watching magets grow".
The point this song is trying to make is that this is a rotten city where you kill what you don't want (thats actually the title of the song). in this case the baby wasn't wanted so she killed it and by mistake ended her life aswell.
I agree, Dana doesn't die - at least not literally.
The word 'quiere,' in Spanish, can mean two words in English: 'like' and 'want.' This translation from "It is liked, it is killed," into "it is wanted, it is killed," makes a difference. The general translation is as follows: Braulio is a big eyed, dark haired man that wears only gray and doesn't sleep naked. (Big eyes => innocence / gray => neutrality, which will come into play later, 'cause Braulio isn't mentioned during the abortion). Dana is a good girl (according to her parents) who never gets home past 10PM. They both love each other like any couple but fell for carnal wants/needs. Dana becomes pregnant shortly after and fears the consequences. (Your neighbor is happily relaxing in every day life while Dana is 2 meters -6feet- under). Which doesn't translate as her actually dying, instead think of it in this situation:
Doing something SO BAD that you think your parents might kill you. (Which makes sense because her parents think she's the most innocent person ever). So before her parents find out about the pregnancy, she decides to have an abortion because what you don't want, you kill. So to her, the choice is kill the life she's supposed to bring into life (in the "rotten city") or be killed, figuratively, by her parents.
In the end, Dana's innocence is what dies, not her.
i think hyperinactivity hit the nail right on the head. it was her innocence that died. and i also think it was a part of her that died, having done such a terrible thing. i think shakira is so amazing for this song.