Cómo Quieres Que Te Quiera Lyrics in English by Rosario, Sebastián Yatra
Aprisiona comes from the word prisión, which means "prison". It's a powerful verb that literally means "to imprison".
In this passionate song, the singer describes how her own heart aprisiona (imprisons) her without wanting to. It beautifully captures the feeling of being trapped by your own overwhelming emotions for someone, unable to escape the love and pain you feel.
Spanish flamenco pop star Rosario teams up with Sebastián Yatra to tackle an impossible question: how can you love someone who refuses to be there? The core frustration hits immediately in the title hook, "¿Cómo quieres que te quiera si no estás aquí?" ("How do you want me to love you if you are not here?"). It is an exasperated plea thrown into an empty room. Rosario sings of climbing mountains and crying to rivers while her heart feels trapped, calling out an ex who demands affection without offering any vulnerability in return ("si no te das a mí" ["if you do not give yourself to me"]).
Yatra jumps in with sleepless, vivid agony. He pictures his former partner in bed with someone else and gets dramatically honest about phantom tears: "La lluvia pega contra la ventana / Aunque no llueve, yo en la cama llorando por la misma mujer" ("Rain beats against the window / Even though it isn't raining, I'm in bed crying for the same woman"). Then comes the bitter truth about hesitation destroying a romance. As the lyrics put it, no loss hurts more than the one doomed by fear: "No hay amor más difícil de olvidar y soltar / Que el que se perdió por miedo y le faltó arriesgar" ("There is no love harder to forget and let go / Than the one lost to fear and a failure to take risks"). Instead of a grand reunion, all that remains is longing for a simple leap of faith—"un dejarlo todo y un vamos los dos" ("a leaving everything behind and a let's both go")—while admitting that the cold finally won.
