Love is blue, new translated sad version that rhymes

Question

Azul, azul, el mundo es azul

El mundo es azul porque me te vas

Gris, gris, la vida es gris

La resultó gris porque tú no estás.

Rojos, rojos, A mirar.... estos ojos

De llorar por tí tan solo en cama

Verde, verde, el corazón celeso

Dudaba de tí, que tu nombre infama

Cuando nos conocimos que brillante era el sol

Negras, negras, Se convierte en suegras

Tú me apeteces, Tan perdido y solo

Se acabó, oh, ya no me iluminó

Azul es el mundo porque solo estoy yo.

Cuando nos conocimos que brillante era el sol

Your original was pretty cool really! - pacofinkler, Feb 27, 2011

Answer 1

Jeazzle, but if you leave the blue part in it, as one starts reading it, one thinks of something happy to come. blue has nothing to do with sadness in Spanish. Why not change that for grey?

resulta gris porque tú no estás.

Rojos, rojos, A mirar.... estos ojos

De llorar por ti tan solo en la cama

Verde, verde, el corazón celeso

Dudaba de ti, que tu nombre infama>-----????

Cuando nos conocimos qué brillante era el sol

Negras, negras, Se convierte en suegras

Tú me apeteces, Tan perdido y solo

Se acabó, oh, ya no me iluminó>-----------??

Gris es el mundo porque solo estoy yo.

Cuando nos conocimos qué brillante era el sol

Answer 2

spoiler

I'n changing the lyrics. - jeezzle, Feb 27, 2011

Answer 3

@Heidita. You're right. The problem is that there is a sad English version, and a happy Spanish version, and I wanted to make a sad Spanish version, but you know what, I think it's not possible to do that since the song is called "El amor es azul" and that means it can't be sad, can it.

I did have two questions with those that you pointed out:

1. que tu nombre infama - I was thinking infamar means to defame like to make bad, make seem bad. Like, that makes your name bad, like gives you a bad name. I wanted it to rhyme with cama so I chose infama, maybe doesn't work I guess.

2. ya no me iluminó. I wanted it to rhyme with solo. I wanted it to mean "It doesn't light me up anymore, it doesn't illuminate me anymore." I guess. alumbrar is better. Does ya no me alumbró work? Or why doesn't ya no me iluminó work? Tough part of Spanish here, the little parts that don't work they way I want them to when they feel like they should work that way.

Gracias.