An Experiment in No Comprende - Pesadilla en el Parque de Attracciones

I've recently been listening to Spotify Radio while doing my daily computer errands and the Indie station keeps playing these lovely tracks that are in Spanish.  I don't understand anything they are saying, but I am quite taken by the music just the same.  I'm a sucker for great songs with good melody, that make me a little emo. 

"Pesadilla en el Parque de Attracciones" by Los Planetas is one of those songs.  I had heard it a few times and the song made me happy.  First, I'm thinking: oh what a great love song.  Then, it dawned on me that maybe it was a song about longing.  Is this a couple that's already together?  Are they separated by distance or time?  Did they break up?  Did he disappear for no reason and suddenly feels bad?  Are kids throughout Latin America and Spain are listening to this song and feeling the same way?  If only I knew what they were saying!

I'll start by saying that I have a very limited grasp of the Spanish language.  I often brag that I can read it, just not speak it and also that I KIND OF understand what people are saying when they speak it to me.  So, I thought it would be funny to do a compare and contrast with what I THINK the song is saying vs. what the song is ACTUALLY saying. 

My version:

OMG, you're so awesome and I love you
I want to be with you
I think of you all the time and want you with me
I'm so sorry for all the horrible things I said to you
Follow me into the sunset and we'll be happy
We can dance together in the moonlight
You're awesome
I'm awesome
Let's do this
Love ya, mean it
  (Rinse and repeat)

The real version in English:
"Know that I expected
This happened and nothing happens
That alone gives me reason and I've been learning
From time to time I have been with you
And I applied my enemies
Your dirty tactics of harassment and demolition
I've also got a good thing
From all this mess
And I want you to know
I hope you end up hanging from a pine
When you see how stupid you've been
When you see that you have done fatal
And I want you to know
That has been hell to be with you
Who the hell is the closest thing,
You look a bit like Satan

I want you to know that I have come
In your fucking scenes "Now I'm out"
Get out and that would be a really lucky
If not I see you in the coming years
For me that you could throw a pit
Who and what do I care
If I start thinking a moment I think I prefer
So you know that I hope you end up hitting you a shot
When you see how stupid you've been
When you see that you have done fatal
And I want you to know it's been a hell being with you
Let me just narrowly missed
But I'm hard to kill
And I want you to know it's been a hell being with you
Who the hell is not so much punishment
You look pretty to Satan"


HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...kinda not the same thing...

It made me think how you attach your own emotions to a song, whether you know what the song says or not.  And, also that it's possible to have the same song mean something to you whether it means something positive or negative, and still for the same reason.  It's a little bit of circular logic, but that's been my life lately.

The best part?  I love the song even more and its inspired me to seek out other Indie en Espanol artists.  Me gusta!!

To be continuado...