Buenos Amigos Lyrics in English Selena , Alvaro Torres

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Buenos Amigos by Selena from Spanish to English.

Since I already know

that you're a dream

unreachable

it's more than enough for me that you know

how much I love you

my beloved friend

the most beautiful

for whom I'd give what I am

the one who steals with both hands

my heart

It's not that I'm indifferent

to what you feel

If I could love you like that

I would love you

But love

can't be improvised

it's born suddenly, just like that

It's not something to put

here or there

If the feeling were the same in you and in me

our love would be of glory and ecstasy

But wanting and loving aren't the same

Love is always greater than affection

And even though we have so many things in common

it could be that I fail or you fail

If the feeling that unites us isn't the same

let's keep on being good friends

I'll wait day after day full of longing

until you want to shelter me inside your soul

I want to live with the hope

that someday you'll love me

It doesn't matter how long I have to wait for you

All the things you tell me are so beautiful

that sometimes I feel that I'm falling in love

But I wake up and I stop before making a mistake

Because a good friend is worth more than a bad love

If the feeling were the same in you and in me

our love would be of glory and ecstasy

But wanting and loving aren't the same

Love is always greater than affection

And even though we have so many things in common

it could be that I fail or you fail

If the feeling that unites us isn't the same

let's keep on being good friends

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SONG MEANING

“Buenos Amigos” pairs Selena’s radiant Tex-Mex vocals with Álvaro Torres’s warm Salvadoran tone to tell a heartfelt friendship-to-almost-love story. Sung as a dialogue, the duet captures that bittersweet place where affection and admiration collide with the reality that true love cannot be commanded. The friends confess just how deeply they care: he would “give all he is,” she admits his words make her almost fall. Yet both agree that querer (liking) and amar (loving) are not the same, and forcing the leap could ruin everything they already share.

Rather than gamble on a romance that only one of them fully feels, they choose the safer treasure of lasting companionship. Hope still lingers—he will wait “día y otro lleno de ansias”—but the song’s wisdom shines in its refrain: it is better to remain buenos amigos than risk becoming un mal amor. With its smooth melody and poetic Spanish, the track teaches listeners that genuine love must bloom naturally, while a true friendship is already a priceless bond worth protecting.

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