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Acróstico, Shakira
Te Felicito, Shakira and Rauw Alejandro
I tore myself in pieces, to make you complete:
They warned me about it, but it doesn’t form a fact.
Explain to me how wrong your cause has gone —
It was the trickle that tipped the glass!
Don’t tell me that you feel sorry; it
Seems pretty sincere, but I know you too well: I’m aware of the lies you tell.
Congrats to you for playing your role right:
I’ve got not one doubt about it,
With your constant paperwork parts.
That show really seemed to suit
You; congrats for playing your role so well.
I’ve got not one doubt about it,
With your constant paperwork parts —
That show really seemed to suit
You; congrats for playing your role so well.
I’m not buying this flea-market philosophy;
Terribly sorry it didn’t put me on this track
Before. I don’t put up with two-faced people,
’cause I put my feet to the fire, just for you:
And you treat me like another of your whims.
Your injury failed to penetrate me deep
Except right to my eyeballs, still red
From so much crying over you alone. And
the result for now is that you’re sorry?
Try to sound sincere, tho’ I know you too well: I’m aware of the lies you tell.
Congrats to you for playing your role right:
I’ve got not one doubt about it,
With your constant paperwork parts.
That show really seemed to suit
You; congrats for playing your role so well.
I’ve got not one doubt about it,
With your constant paperwork parts —
That show really seemed to suit
You; congrats for playing your role so well.
Hey Ra-Rauw, speak up!
Explaining yourself so clearly, I don’t need you —
You’re losing a legitimate individual.
Someone might tell me why you stopped leaking;
I want to take a bite of you, when you recall our meals.
Just like before,
With you in support of the notice —
Torching the peace-maker:
Daddy didn’t tie you up in nets, since you’re staring at the other woman with the Benz.
Don’t tell me any more stories: I don’t want to know
How it is that I’ve been so blind, and incapable of seeing
That they ought to give you an academy award, for doing it so well.
Congrats to you for playing your role right:
I’ve got not one doubt about it,
With your constant paperwork parts.
That show really seemed to suit
You; congrats for playing your role so well.
I’ve got not one doubt about it,
With your constant paperwork parts —
That show really seemed to suit
You; congrats for playing your role so well.
Belle à moche, Victoria
Beauty and the beast, just one step to it
with another to answer that, as if I didn’t want you too.
You are so very charming, young lady…
You offer compliments with a flutter of your wings!
A gentleman comprehends all the harm he commits.
The size of someone’s nose or even my ass, yeah —
I told you no, because you would love me less,
& deep-down you’d love yourself no more.
Beauty and the beast
Beauty and the beast, just one step to it
Beauty and the beast
Beauty and the beast, just one step to it
It’s not just the details that are killing us, no…
It’s a real sizeable problem as you can see, can you see?
It’s not just the details that are killing us, no…
It’s a real sizeable problem as you can see, can you see?
No Photoshop job, from bottom to top, then
suddenly it’s going so fast, not like
scandal to a real lady, good enough for null & void,
and quite the ideal disaster, as the first off
consideration; and in the second place,
to believe that it’s no easy task:
if I told you the answer’s no, put your teeth
on ice, smile real bright and deep — it’s certain death…
Beauty and the beast
Beauty and the beast, just one step to it
Beauty and the beast
Beauty and the beast, just one step to it
It’s not just the details that are killing us, no…
It’s a real sizeable problem as you can see, can you see?
It’s not just the details that are killing us, no…
It’s a real sizeable problem as you can see, can you see?
Beauty and the beast
Beauty and the beast, just one step to it
It’s not just the details that are killing us, no…
It’s a real sizeable problem as you can see, can you see?
It’s not just the details that are killing us, no…
It’s a real sizeable problem as you can see, can you see?
Chantaje, Shakira and Maluma
Hey, look here
Hi-hey, look at me here
(Rudeboyz)
You cheer me up when you’re doing well.
You know yourself alone, so I’m always in.
It’s another fight over ‘giving & taking’,
So give me some of what you’ve got there…
Oh yeah, baby, you ain’t so bad (o-no)!
You shouldn’t have left me wanting more, if
You heard out on the street-corner that you’re
Over me: come on, get in the car.
Ask anyone you want, go tell them,
I swear on my life it isn’t like that —
I never had a truly bad intention:
I didn’t ever really want to slip by you.
Take a look with me, it’s definitely unknown:
One day I wake up going yes, the next day — no!
I’m a bit masochistic,
And truly self-centered about my own form.
You’re like blackmail, blackmail purely
Blackmail, blackmail purely —
It’s your MO for all time
I do want you, but it’s not wanting.
You’re like blackmail, blackmail purely
Blackmail, blackmail purely —
You circulate as free as the breeze;
I’m not all about you or anyone else.
You tempt me when you shake it like that:
These sexy dance moves always do amuse me.
You really got control of me by your hips there.
I don’t know why you kept me on the guest list…
They say you’re here for now, like how I’m going to be creative & destroy it
As I leave again each night, as I hold you tight when you’re struggling;
And that I’m in this relationship that required her to do it —
Not that you would’ve engendered this heinous propaganda.
Papa dear, I’m telling you here, they’re pulling your ear:
You aren’t about to straighten out something that’s not too twisted
And I’m chasing after you like a mental patient, dying for you
To tell me, “What’s daddy got for me, baby?” (How…)
Ask anyone you want, go tell them,
I swear on my life it isn’t like that —
I never had a truly bad intention:
I didn’t ever really want to slip by you.
Take a look with me, it’s definitely unknown:
One day I wake up going yes, the next day — no!
I’m a bit masochistic,
And truly self-centered about my own form.
You’re like blackmail, blackmail purely
Blackmail, blackmail purely —
It’s your MO for all time
I do want you, but it’s not wanting.
You’re like blackmail, blackmail purely
Blackmail, blackmail purely —
You circulate as free as the breeze;
I’m not all about you or anyone else. — hay-ay-eh…
No one, hay-ay-eh!
No one, hay-ay-eh!
No one (nobody)…
Kind of focused on my own form.
You’re like blackmail, blackmail purely
Blackmail, blackmail purely —
It’s your MO for all time
I do want you, but it’s not wanting.
You’re like blackmail, blackmail purely
Blackmail, blackmail purely —
You circulate as free as the breeze;
I’m not all about you or anyone else.
No one, hay-ay-eh!
No one, hay-ay-eh!
No one (nobody), hay-ay-eh, ay-eh…
Hey, hey, hey alright, OK, baby:
Shakira, Maluma — oh yeah.
Pretty boy
You’re my baby lover (Rudeboyz…), yeah
Colombia, you feel me?
Bastante chico.
Easy, Baby K
It slides by me in the dead of night,
like a late-night bad habit:
speak low, disclose
some things you know about me?
You’re laughing, but you hardly seem to
know me: just let the last word go…
Kiss me a little more forcefully, now:
the strobe-light’s got me all mixed up.
I know how to take the right path just with you,
since I didn’t notice you, calling
for me at the very gates:
just trying to dodge the rain gusts.
Baby, I am myself, & you are too:
both I and you.
You’re a real breath of fresh air
Baby, it sure is easy
Facile
We’re on our way, leaving right now, oh yeah?
You’re a real breath of fresh air, baby…
Facile, we’re on our way, leaving right now, oh yeah?
You are a song in the still silence,
a tune for dancing a real selfie-show:
not a bit more tomorrow, just this
moment, right now.
So tell me: would
you spend a night in jail,
do tell me,
then fall in love by chance elsewhere? —
I didn’t notice you, calling
for me at the very gates:
just trying to dodge the rain gusts.
Baby, I am myself, & you are too:
both I and you.
You’re a real breath of fresh air
Baby, it sure is easy
Facile
We’re on our way, leaving right now, oh yeah?
You’re a real breath of fresh air, baby…
Easy, We’re on our way, leaving right now, oh yeah?
Maybe I am just a diva for whom the rose petals
of this life are insufficient: I only love the
“I” things, as I always went to war for love alone —
You Are… just like the breeze on a desolate road.
Baby,
you’re a real breath of fresh air, baby…
Easy,
we’re on our way, leaving right now, oh yeah?
La la la (uh, ah, yeah)
Easy…
Bellissima, Annalisa
“My official response on tonight, I’m told it’s not possible, like no way: & I’m just hearing right now — goodbye, hope you’re well…”
A night at home, just us alone
as I noticed that
you weren’t talking about me at all;
and it made me realize
your way of saying things,
it amounts to the same
effect. I’m making an effort to be more
flexible: I’m thinking of you, that I didn’t
write enough — how classic!
& then unforeseen you’re right here
Well, you’re sufficient for me
Oh, oh, oh!
I danced some mortal steps
Oh, oh, oh!
No, don’t tell me it’s getting late —
Ah, ah, ah!
I’ve been meaning to, I
really wanted, I did…
Wherever you go, you’ll be getting
yourself there. I shouldn’t have
gone out of my way that last time:
I was the prettiest,
the best looking?
Wherever you’re going, no
matter what you want, that one
time I saw you at St. Lawrence,
I was sexiest,
the prettiest.
We’re having a bit of a musical gymnastics contest;
and it takes all day to save me from hysterical crying.
I’m going to bed in a pair of Adidas, & then
I really meant to tell you that I’m not sleeping here
any more. Madonna herself took leave of me, sure —
call me an ambulance,
and then unforeseen you’re right here
Well, you’re sufficient for me
Oh, oh, oh!
I danced some mortal steps
Oh, oh, oh!
No, don’t tell me it’s getting late —
Ah, ah, ah!
I’ve been meaning to, I
really wanted, I did…
Wherever you go, you’ll be getting
yourself there. I shouldn’t have
gone out of my way that last time:
I was the prettiest,
the best looking?
Wherever you’re going, no
matter what you want, that one
time I saw you at St. Lawrence,
I was sexiest,
the prettiest.
Bellissima, ah! (x3)
I really wanted to, ah… (x3)
I meant to want it too.
Wherever you go, you’ll be getting
yourself there. I shouldn’t have
gone out of my way that last time:
I was the prettiest,
the best looking?
Wherever you’re going, no
matter what you want, that one
time I saw you at St. Lawrence,
I was sexiest,
the prettiest.
Monotonía, Shakira and Ozuna
It’s really not your fault, even less so mine;
it was just an ennui error.
I never said a thing, even though it hurt me:
I do know exactly what happened here.
You’re in your own place, & I’m handling my own —
always looking for attention, you’ve
forgotten we spent a real holiday together
and that no you’re worse off…
It’s really not your fault, even less so mine;
it was just an ennui error.
I never said a thing, even though it hurt me:
I do know exactly what happened here.
Suddenly, you were no longer unchanged (The very same.)
You left me for your ego games (Me-ness).
You’ve forgotten we spent a real holiday together…
Your attitude is way out of line, & this really does unnerve me.
You’re unwilling to give up, even a little bit, but if I knew anyone
more real than you, it was chasing after one who wouldn’t
go the distance for myself. This love, it will never die, because
it’s already raving about the fact I haven’t done it yet.
I’m telling you, in all sincerity,
cooler than the very Nativity,
it’s better this should be the end already.
Let’s not go see another movie I’ve already seen before?
What I really want from you, it’s to be more than I am —
it’s a necessary send-off, when
what used to be unbelievable now becomes routine:
your lips don’t know me personally.
Now it’s all in opposition, & you’re even worse off…
It’s really not your fault, even less so mine;
it was just an ennui error.
I never said a thing, even though it hurt me:
I do know exactly what happened here.
You’re in your own place, & I’m handling my own —
always looking for attention, you’ve
forgotten we spent a real holiday together…
(Something about that seemed easier than Latin: getting back to work here. . . .)
Luna, Baby K
Then take me to the moon, like Milan is too far removed —
way too far, & we’re not going back there again;
but if you just want a city-dwelling life, let’s take the subway,
and get down with it:
if it’s to chance getting Lady Di back at the palace,
then I no longer wish to leave.
I just happen to know that you’re something special, if
I remove the mascara facade, & it’s all clean…
On the way in more than one sense, if I say I’m “done” we’ll make the whole world jealous.
You know, I think you remind me of quite the dream
(now more of a knot for me to unleash).
El Dorado, with gilded lips — I knew it,
you want a hunting job with no sword deployed: you’re
hereby obliged, now look at me, let’s set some boundaries.
So take my hand once again, then hand me rose campion!
Lunatic moon, like Milan is too far removed —
way too far, & we’re not going back there again;
but if you just want a city-dwelling life, let’s take the subway,
and get down with it:
if it’s to chance getting Lady Di back at the palace,
then I no longer wish to leave.
I just happen to know that you’re something special, if
I remove the mascara facade, & it’s all clean…
I know what it’s like, on the inside of a tropical hotel scene, if
I spin the wheel of fortune, let’s stay right there, like it was a whole other world,
at the beach in Mexico
(where, day & night, they’re always a bit off balance).
El Dorado, with gilded lips — I knew it,
you want a hunting job with no sword deployed: you’re
hereby obliged, now look at me, let’s set some boundaries.
So take my hand once again, then hand me rose campion!
Lunatic moon, like Milan is too far removed —
way too far, & we’re not going back there again;
but if you just want a city-dwelling life, let’s take the subway,
and get down with it:
if it’s to chance getting Lady Di back at the palace,
then I no longer wish to leave.
I just happen to know that you’re something special, if
I remove the mascara facade, & it’s all clean…
I already know how it goes if you’re going to pick & choose
what’s on the menu, as if it were in a dream,
unless the city itself should come to you, and you were ready to leave —
it’s fine with me, to get right over that choice too!
Lunatic moon, like Milan is too far removed —
way too far, & we’re not going back there again;
but if you just want a city-dwelling life, let’s take the subway,
and get down with it:
if it’s to chance getting Lady Di back at the palace,
then I no longer wish to leave.
I just happen to know that you’re something special, if
I remove the mascara facade, & it’s all clean…
(from the album, Woman at the Moon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rSsxastFwY&list=OLAK5uy_lCR2K2pODR1CDxKrFsiWkwawa6XUoU9JE
Stavo pensando a te, Fabri Fibra
Check me out, a sensitive stranger, you know… because
I’ve been thinking about you: I
have been thinking that…
As a cool girlfriend heads to sea, when everyone else is working,
as a smooth girl smoking by the beach with hotshots at will,
as real cool has neither needs
nor thoughts on schedule —
so princess-chic takes slow turns when no one’s asking where will you be?
Like smoothness when I write you at home,
as I eat the whole fridge out; the way it makes
you feel sick to tell someone ‘you’re lazy,
you’re immature, you’re a tiny man’;
as it irks you to keep an eye out when I’m at the peak
as if you wanted that I should repeat this —
as it makes you sick to argue “I just want to keep quiet…”
by now, I have figured out so much that
you get sickened by set phrases:
this type of heaven looks to me like it’s painted,
with microwave lasagna real tasty;
whereas I feel so bad by myself, I’m
going to bed for a morning hard-on.
I am saying too much, running out of spit —
I promised to take you on a trip,
when not even the car would start up.
Look at me, a bit touchy abroad, you know… because
I’ve been thinking ‘bout you: I
have been thinking that we
should never have just let it go.
Look at me, a bit touchy abroad, you know… because
I’ve been thinking ‘bout you: I
have been thinking that we
should never have just let it go.
Beautiful people here, & lovely, the position;
I’m taking a picture like this, not going to post it.
What do ye want, white wine or red one?
What a great many girls, brethren such a great fault —
not enough beer to make a scene.
Let me reiterate, I’m any-man next up.
And yet this drink is my second already.
I’m reconsidering the night, without a condom;
I’ll take a beer, and hold the sleeping.
Here’s a piece, down to the foundation:
tell ‘em I meant to give the whole world to you!
Look, since I’m all tied up in knots inside, I’ll
be going under, as things are gettin’ moving.
Yet I’m here with some real urgency, too late?
And at this time I will not be so courteous,
& then I believe that no one is truly ready,
& then I do feel that no one’s all that sober,
& that a young man doesn’t want it appropriate,
& how I’m familiar with no one apart from you —
I’ve been looking for just a bit o’ red wine;
but at the end, I see that it’s all appointed.
Noted, as it were the course of life between
us; one says it’s all smoke, but no roasting.
& yet, the fragrance is still stuck with me.
Look at me, a bit touchy abroad, you know… because
I’ve been thinking ‘bout you: I
have been thinking that we
should never have just let it go.
Look at me, a bit touchy abroad, you know… because
I’ve been thinking ‘bout you: I
have been thinking that we
should never have just let it go.
But I’m checking myself out in the mirror,
thinking maybe I could lose a few —
time itself is passing by the season,
whether or not we make it to Brazil.
I’m covering up, ‘cause it’s already winter-time,
& it was never going to work out for me to leave;
I’m getting lost in these words of mine,
like I just wanted you to say something.
Look at me, a bit touchy abroad, you know… because
I’ve been thinking ‘bout you: I
have been thinking that we
should never have just let it go.
Look at me, a bit touchy abroad, you know… because
I’ve been thinking ‘bout you: I
have been thinking that we
should never have just let it go.
Raggi Laser, Fabri Fibra
Like an old tattoo, fading under flashy laser beams,
these old-time taboos are gonna keep coming up, as abnormal case precedent.
Even with Pavarotti gone, no one can sleep across Italy.
They’re spitting at my dome,
next they go on MTV like right-hand man lovers.
The preferable re-match ends up the next success,
‘cause one who hates on me is still at hand.
A party does not exist.
There is no champion.
Y’all have seen The Godfather too often
here in the city which omits the sign “Milan,
Inc.” — I’m leaving the Labyrinth puppets alone…
in the land where the youth talk like old people,
and the elderly still do make the young ones:
I’m coming from the future tense, right into your houses —
we’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser!
Flashy laser, flashy laser
we’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser.
Flashy laser, flashy laser
we’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser.
We’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser.
We’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser.
Flashy laser, flashy laser
we’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser.
Let’s be honest now,
I can only take so many soldier-bonuses on a par with “& who are these individuals?”
They offer a soldier’s hire to live there, even though it makes for a Tom Cruise impossible mission.
This country always looks like it’s a step away from the finish line —
like right after the perfect finish
as if a real company, going out of business.
No hard-on is as rough as life itself.
I’ve put up with some slight beatings —
I don’t let it go, like some kind of astronaut!
I feel the ladies on TV might come to be treated poorly?
Your husband calls us bastards, and then goes to mistreat you.
Lifelong solitary,
the habitual air in Italy.
I’m thinking futuristically about this station;
and this here is one fucking record,
& it’s as if it were a cheap joke in a video.
Flashy laser, flashy laser
we’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser.
Flashy laser, flashy laser
we’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser.
We’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser.
We’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser.
Flashy laser, flashy laser
we’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser.
It doesn’t look legit to you, but everything compels such soldiers to talk shit;
the peoples are just like the situation, i.e. critical,
old school commentary —
you’re offensive, & it’s political:
ancient palace villa,
like someone looking to grow older.
But this here’s an old story.
Even I am starting to show my age:
so point your pistol at the flashy laser, peace out!
Flashy laser, flashy laser
we’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser.
We’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser.
We’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser.
Flashy laser, flashy laser
we’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser.
Flashy laser, flashy laser
flashy laser, flashy laser —
we’re tripping out here, by means of flashy laser
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