How do you translate "te llevo metido"?

Question

In the song, "El Emigrante" sung by Juanito Valderrama, there is the following phrase: "Adiós me España querida, dentro de mi alma te llevo metido". How do you translate "te llevo metido"?

• "mi España querida" - Guillermo2 Nov 20, 2009

Answer 1

Doesn´t this mean "you are always with me", because it is about leaving their beloved Spain.

Answer 2

"Adiós mi España querida, dentro de mi alma te llevo metido". How do you translate "te llevo metido"?

It looks to me like "dentro de mi alma te llevo metido" means something like "I carry you clasped within my soul."

Llevar something metido dentro de mi alma, would carry the sense of being stuck tightly or firmly... deep within the soul.

Answer 3

I looked up the song because I was curious about the meaning of the sentence too, and I found the "metido" is actually "metida" in the song. I still didn't really know what the end of the phrase meant, so I translated the song and this is what is means:

"And goodbye my beloved Spain, within my soul I've been stuck..."

Hope that helps! I'll be interested to see what other users write, because I don't really understand the word "metida" in Spanish.