Amar es algo más [English translation]

Sitting with your picture on a sofa,

I can't stop thinking about you.

And I dial your number fruitlessly,

but you don't even want to listen to me.

Wait, because I'm tired of trying,

and I can't forget your love.

And with my tears, the memories mingle.

Memories of the happy days that won't come back.

To love is something more than meet and chat,

to love is to give oneself.

It's more than an illusion, it's more than a passion,

to love is to forgive each other.

To love is something more than to give a friendship,

to love is to go out singing.

To learn to love it's not enough to dream

you can only learn to love by loving.

Because love gives you shelter and warmth,

it lights up your heart, it gives you life.

And on the goodbye, a bitter pain lasts,

and the air lets off a taste of farewell.

I wish I could speak to you once more,

to tell you I'm not happy.

To acknowledge, one by one, my errors,

to ask you to forgive me if I offended you.

Now, I keep looking in the past,

dreaming of going back to you.

Meanwhile, my phone calls in vain,

and the evening slowly clad itself in grey.

To love is something more than meet and chat,

to love is to give oneself.

It's more than an illusion, it's more than a passion,

to love is to forgive each other.

To love is something more than to give a friendship,

to love is to go out singing.

To learn to love it's not enough to dream

you can only learn to love by loving.

Because love gives you shelter and warmth,

it lights up your heart, it gives you life.

And on the goodbye, a bitter pain lasts,

and the air lets off a taste of farewell.

• Artist:José Luis Rodríguez
• Album:Atrévete (1980)