# Spanish Translation Help Needed **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 29, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-help-needed/198425 "2003-08-29T14:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Giggle\_Gaggle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@Giggle\_Gaggle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giggle_Gaggle)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-help-needed/198425/1 "2003-08-29T14:33:16Z")
Quoting from the lyrics of the Spanish love song, _Luna de miel_: “Tu tienes los cigarrillos, yo llevo el encendedor. tu me rompes la cabeza, yo te parto el corazón.” I’m unable to figure out the particular meaning in the third and fourth lines. “You break my head / I break your heart” “You butt heads with me / I break your heart” “You defeat my mind / I break your heart” “You give me a headache / I break your heart” or some other thing? If there’s an idiom involved, I’m not catching it. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-help-needed/198425/2 "2003-08-29T14:54:50Z")
Here is my translation/interpretation: “Tu tienes los cigarrillos, yo llevo el encendedor. tu me rompes la cabeza, yo te parto el corazón.” You have the cigarretts, I bring the lighter. You break my head (most likely meant as: ‘You drive me crazy’), I break your heart. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-help-needed/198425/3 "2003-08-29T14:55:53Z")
Thinking of it, the use of ‘parto’ would be closer to ‘rip’ or separate in a tearing kind of way. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-help-needed/198425/4 "2003-08-29T19:28:30Z")
“partir el corazon”- to break the heart or heartbreak feelings/emotions. It’s an idiomatic expression. Example: My heart bleeds (or is it breaks) when thinking about those poor kittens. Se me parte el corazón pensando en esos pobres gatitos. But it can also be: “Tú me partes el corazón”- You give me a hearbreak! Can also be used ironically… ---
**Author:** ![Giggle\_Gaggle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@Giggle\_Gaggle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giggle_Gaggle)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-help-needed/198425/5 "2003-08-29T20:18:16Z")
No, my question is specifically about the head-breaking. The heart-breaking (or ripping it in two) part is pretty much identical idiomatically in English. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-help-needed/198425/6 "2003-08-29T21:42:49Z")
ok… Then like Kinthalis said… most in the sense of driving the person crazy… ---
**Author:** ![Grousser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Grousser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grousser)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-help-needed/198425/7 "2003-08-29T22:18:20Z")
I’m mexican and I can help you for sure. Kinthalis was right in his first approach. “Tu me rompes la cabeza” means, specifically, that “you puzzle me”. It hasn’t to be taken literally in the sense of “physically breaking the head”. “You drive me crazy” is fine, but it’s closer to “you confuse me” or “you cause me disorder with your weird actions”. “Yo te parto el corazón” means “I break your heart”, no more. I haven’t heard the song, so the context may change the meanings, if ironically treated. But these are the usual uses of those expressions. ---
**Author:** ![Giggle\_Gaggle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@Giggle\_Gaggle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giggle_Gaggle)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-help-needed/198425/8 "2003-08-29T22:47:00Z")
Here’s the full set of lyrics, for those who are interested. Luna de miel * * * ---
**Author:** ![Grousser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Grousser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grousser)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-help-needed/198425/9 "2003-08-29T23:31:32Z")
Oops, it seems there was a rule-breaking action here… I didn’t ask for it, anyway. But yes, that’s the meaning for sure. It seems the lyrics suggests a friendly antagonism, full of love and competition in a honeymoon. It’s ironically correct. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-help-needed/198425/10 "2003-08-29T23:37:09Z")
Late to the show **I** , rompecabeza means puzzle in Spanish, so, well, that could have been a clue! ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-help-needed/198425/11 "2003-08-30T00:27:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Giggle Gaggle \* > Luna de miel > > * * * Very free and liberal translation: _Luna de miel_ Honeymoon You have to wake up I’ve hid the alarm clock You filled up the tub I’m gonna overflow it. You’ve got the cigarettes I’ve got the lighter You’re making me ca-razy I’m giving (you) my heart Let’s look at the honeymoon with hotels, with (bath)tubs flowing with darknass you’re going to see the sky and the songs we sing to bring light You’re the living blind I’m the fishing rod you take the words [out of my mouth] from me I give you eloquence You take me to England I carry you to Gibraltar You wear the trousers [pants], I don’t use a shirt ---
**Author:** ![Grousser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@Grousser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grousser)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-help-needed/198425/12 "2003-08-30T20:01:20Z")
Some pointings here: Incorrect: You’re making me ca-razy I’m giving (you) my heart Correct: _You puzzle me_ (or _You’re making me crazy_, as well) _I break your heart_ (that was discussed yet) “Vas a ver que luna de miel” is more like “_You’ll see, what a honeymoon_” “que hoteles, que baños al anochecer.” _What kind of hotels, what kind of swims at sundown_ (“baño” is also a word for swimming pool divings or beach activities in the water). Another one: I’m suspecting that “cego” is wrong, maybe the intended word is “cebo”: bait. That gives more sense: _You have the living bait I have the fishing rod_ And the last one, depending if is sung by a man or a woman: _You wear the pants_ …who “wears the pants” is the person who commands in a relationship/home. When the woman is said to wear the pants, means that she is the dominant part. “Yo no uso camisón” _I don’t wear a nightgown_ Women usually wear nightgowns. If it’s sung by a man, it may probably means that even she is in command, he is sexually available (the same if sung by a woman, I suppose). ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spanish-translation-help-needed/198425/13 "2003-08-30T20:29:31Z")
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