A Veces Lyrics in English by Ana Tijoux

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Sometimes you connect, stumble without steps

Sometimes you have to make peace with yourself

Sometimes if you do, you don't, if you make peace

You get up and you fall

Sometimes you connect, stumble without steps

Sometimes you have to make peace with yourself

Sometimes if you do, you don't, if you make peace

You get up and you fall

Sometimes I love you, sometimes not

Sometimes I avoid you depending on the time

Sometimes everything, sometimes nothing

Sometimes, if you only knew sometimes

You understand me, you catch me, the blankets

You sing to me, the traps, you lift, the karmas, scales

Sometimes I want you far from me

Sometimes it makes me sad just to see you leave

Sometimes I believe that everything can be so simple

Perhaps, deep down that makes me invincible

Cuts, tricks, cards, exchanges, you fear me

Don't start, sometimes, a thousand times, you look at me

You tell me that sometimes you love me

You love me

Mmm only sometimes

But the more I grow, the more everything becomes complicated

Sometimes I just wish to become the past

Sometimes you connect, stumble without steps

Sometimes you have to make peace with yourself

Sometimes if you do, you don't, if you make peace

You get up and you fall

Sometimes I miss you, sometimes too

Sometimes I wish to be the place where you hide

Because of someone's mistake who doesn't belong

Sometimes from a sunrise or maybe there's no order

Break the mold, sometimes what you expect

Sometimes from one solution another problem arises

Sometimes you, sometimes me, sometimes yes, sometimes no

Sometimes you wish I were like your parent

Sometimes Tuesday, sometimes 13, sometimes days, weeks, months

That don't belong to me

Sometimes all control slips away from you

Like sometimes I wish to disappear from the map

You take rags, cars, tacos, coats

Sometimes I like your lips

Sometimes I cry looking towards the dawn

For the bittersweet sound, the viola continues

Sometimes you connect, stumble without steps

Sometimes you have to make peace with yourself

Sometimes if you do, you don't, if you make peace

You get up and you fall

Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes you get up and you fall

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agridulce — bittersweet

Agridulce literally combines agrio (sour) and dulce (sweet), creating the vivid meaning “bittersweet.” In the song, it describes the mixed emotions carried by the music as the singer reflects on love, distance, sadness, and change.

Ana Tijoux’s “A Veces” (“Sometimes”) moves through the uncertainty of relationships and of being yourself. The repeated lines, “A veces tienes que hacer contigo las paces” [Sometimes you have to make peace with yourself] and “Te levantas y te caes” [You get up and you fall], give the song its center: life keeps changing, and self-acceptance is something you have to work on again and again. The phrase hacer las paces is an idiom meaning “to make peace,” but here the person you need to make peace with is yourself. Even the opening, “A veces enlaces, tropiezo sin pases” [Sometimes connections, I stumble without passes], sounds like playful, broken wordplay about trying to connect while losing your way.

The song refuses to make love simple. “A veces te quiero, a veces no” [Sometimes I love you, sometimes I don’t] is blunt, while “A veces te quiero lejos de mí” [Sometimes I want you far from me] sits beside “A veces me da pena solo el verte partir” [Sometimes it makes me sad just to see you leave]. As the narrator grows older, things become more complicated, and she sometimes wishes she could become “the past” or “desaparecer del mapa” [disappear from the map]. The lyrics jump between affection, distance, mistakes, control slipping away, tears at dawn, and the bittersweet sound of a viola. That constant return to “a veces” [sometimes] makes contradiction the point: sometimes it is Tuesday, sometimes the 13th, sometimes “you,” sometimes “me,” sometimes yes, sometimes no. And after all those changes, the song returns to the same clear image: “A veces te levantas y te caes” [Sometimes you get up and you fall].

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