From Agua by Jarabe De Palo
Please help with this translation:
Cómo quieres ser mi amiga
si por ti dariá la vida,
si confundo tu sonrisa
por camelo si me miras.
7 Answers
How would you want to be my friend
for you i would give my life away,
if i mistake your smile
for a lie when you look at me.
Camelo should be in any good dictionary (which is why it chagrins me to have jumped to the wrong conclusion). In fact, double-click on camelo here, and you will get a definition.
Thanks all, the "camel" reference certainly had me stumped. Is this flirting usage slang, I did not find it in any references I looked in? The song is US popular latin genre.
Camelar is to cajole, win over, could it have something to do with verb ie first person singular.
Also camelar involving a woman means to flirt with, to make up to.
Wow, what a brain freeze! Thanks for pointing that out, Guillermo! I knew something wasn't right, and I should have investigated further.
Camelo can also mean flirting and teasing, which I think makes even more sense here. I have edited my first post above to reflect this.
Camel is "camello", not "camelo"
"camelo" means "lie", or "false" in Argentine slang. I think it makes more sense in your sentence.
"if I mistake your smile
for a lie if you look at me"
Is this from any tango lyrics'
How come you want to be my friend
if I would give my life for you,
if I mistake your smile
for teasing if you look at me.
Can't say I fully understand the meaning, but that's what it says. I guess he's saying "Why would you want to be friends with a loser like me'" But then, I haven't heard the whole song.
