El Amar y el Querer – Lyrics Meaning in English – José José
In this song, the singer points out the difference between truly loving someone and wanting them. He says that everyone knows desire and lust, but only few know how to love, and how it consists of suffering and giving everything up.
Singer: José José
Casi todos sabemos querer
Pero pocos sabemos amar
Es que amar y querer no es igual
Amar es sufrir, querer es gozar
Almost all of us know how to want
But few of us know how to love
Loving and wanting are not the same
To love is to suffer, to want is to enjoy
El que ama pretende servir
El que ama su vida la da
Y el que quiere pretende vivir
Y nunca sufrir, y nunca sufrir
The one who loves pretends to serve
The one who loves gives up his life
And the one who wants pretends to live
And never suffers, and never suffers
El que ama no puede pensar
Todo lo da, todo lo da
El que quiere pretende olvidar
Y nunca llorar y nunca llorar
The one who loves cannot think
Gives it all, gives it all
The one who wants pretends to forget
And never cries and never cries
El querer pronto puede acabar
El amor no conoce el final
Es que todos sabemos querer
Pero pocos sabemos amar
Wanting can end son
Love doesn’t know an end
All of us know how to want
But few of us know how to love
El amar es el cielo y la luz
El amar es total plenitud
Es el mar que no tiene final
Es la gloria y la paz, es la gloria y la paz
Loving is the sky and the light
Loving is total fulfilment
The sea that has no end
It’s glory and peace, it’s glory and peace
El querer es la carne y la flor
Es buscar el obscuro rincón
Es morder, arañar y besar
Es deseo fugaz, es deseo fugaz
Wanting is flesh and flower
It’s looking for the dark corner
It’s biting, scratching and kissing
It’s fleeting desire, it’s fleeting desire
El que ama no puede pensar
Todo lo da, todo lo da
El que quiere pretende olvidar
Y nunca llorar y nunca llorar
The one who loves cannot think
Gives it all, gives it all
The one who wants pretends to forget
And never cries and never cries
El querer pronto puede acabar
El amor no conoce el final
Es que todos sabemos querer
Pero pocos sabemos amar
Wanting can end son
Love doesn’t know an end
All of us know how to want
But few of us know how to love
El que ama no puede pensar
Todo lo da, todo lo da
El que quiere pretende olvidar
The one who loves cannot think
Gives it all, gives it all
The one who wants pretends to forget
