Nirvana MTV Unplugged

 

About A Girl

I need an easy friend

I do with an ear to lend  [Preste atención]

I don't think you fit this shoe [Pisar este zapato]

I do won't you have a clue [Clave, "tener idea de"]

I'll take advantage while

You hang me out to dry

But I can't see you every night

Free

I do

I'm standing in your line [Esperar en la fila]

I do hope you have the time 

I do pick a number too [Turno]

I do keep a date with you 

I'll take advantage while

You hang me out to dry

But I can't see you every night

Free

I need an easy friend

I do with an ear to lend

I do think you fit this shoe

I do won't you have a clue

I'll take advantage while

You hang me out to dry

But I can't see you every night

No, I can't see you every night

Free

I do ... [x4]

Come As You Are

Come as you are, as you were, [Estabas]

As I want you to be

As a friend, as a friend, as an old enemy.

Take your time, hurry up

The choice is yours, don't be late.

Take a rest, as a friend, as an old memoria [Descanso]

Memoria

Memoria

Memoria

Come dowsed in mud, soaked in bleach [rociado, salpicado] [mojado, empapado]

As I want you to be

As a trend, as a friend, as an old memoria [tendencia]

Memoria

Memoria

Memoria

And I swear that I don't have a gun

No I don't have a gun

No I don't have a gun

Memoria

Memoria

Memoria

Memoria - and I don't have a gun

And I swear that I don't have a gun

No I don't have a gun

No I don't have a gun

No I don't have a gun

No I don't have a gun

Memoria

Memoria

 

Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam

Jesus, don't want me for a sunbeam

Sunbeams are never made like me

Don't expect me to cry, [Esperar de mi]

For all the reasons you had to die

Don't ever ask your love of me [peguntar, cuestionar]

Don't expect me to cry 

Don't expect me to lie

Don't expect you to die for me [Mi corrección]

Jesus, don't want me for a sunbeam

Sunbeams are never made like me

Don't expect me to cry,

For all the reasons you had to die

Don't ever ask your love of me

[x2]

Don't expect me to cry

Don't expect me to lie

Don't expect me you die for me [Mi corrección]

Jesus, don't want me for a sunbeam

Sunbeams are never made like me [Alt: Sunbeams are laughing at me]

Don't expect me to cry,

For all the reasons you had to die

Don't ever ask your love of me

Don't expect me to cry

Don't expect me to lie

Don't expect me to die

Don't expect me to cry

Don't expect me to lie

Don't expect me to die for me

The Man Who Sold The World

We passed upon the stair

We spoke of was and when

Although I wasn't there [Aunque]

He said I was his friend 

Which came as a surprise [Cual, {Lo cual vino como}] 

I spoke into his eyes [directo a]

I thought you died alone [Pensé]

A long long time ago

Oh no, not me

We never lost control

You're face to face

With the man who sold the world

I laughed and shook his hand [Apretón]

And made my way back home [camino regreso a casa]

I searched for form and land [Alt: I searched for foreign land] [tierra extranjera]

For years and years I roamed [vagué]

I gazed a gazeless stare [miré] [sin mirada] [fija]

At all the millions here  [millones de personas]

        [Alt 1: We walked a million years]

        [Alt 2: With multimillionaires]

        [Alt 3: We walked a million hills]

I must have died alone [debí haber]

A long, long time ago

Who knows? [quién sabe]

Not me

I never lost control

You're face to face

With the man who sold the world

Who knows?

Not me

We never lost control

You're face to face

With the man who sold the world

Pennyroyal Tea

I'm on my time with everyone

I have very bad posture

Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea [poleo]

Distill the life that's inside of me

Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea

I'm anemic royalty. [realeza]

Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld  [más allá]

So I can sigh eternally  [suspiro]

I'm so tired I can't sleep

I'm anemic royalty

I'm a liar and a thief  [ladrón]

I'm anemic royalty

I'm on warm milk and laxatives

Cherry-flavored antacids

Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea

Distill the life that's inside of me

Sit and drink Pennyroyal Tea

I'm anemic royalty

 

Dumb

I'm not like them but I can pretend

The sun is gone and I have a light

The day is done and I'm having fun  [diversión]

I think I'm dumb [tonto]

Maybe just happy

I think I'm just happy

I think I'm just happy

I think I'm just happy

My heart is broke and I have some glue

Help me inhale and mend it with you  [arreglar]

We'll float around, hang out on clouds  [pasar el rato]

Then we'll come down  [después] [bajaremos, dar el bajón]

Have a hangover

Have a hangover

Have a hangover

Have a hangover

Skin the sun, fall asleep [piel soleada]

Wish away, soul is cheap  [deseos lejanos]

Lesson learned, wish me luck

Soothe the burn, wake me up.  [calma] [quemadura]

I'm not like them but I can pretend

The sun is gone and I have a light

The day is done and I'm havin' fun

I think I'm dumb

Maybe just happy

I think I'm just happy

I think I'm just happy

I think I'm just happy

I think I'm dumb

I think I'm dumb

I think I'm dumb

Polly (New Wave) 

Polly wants a cracker

I think I should get off of her first  [soltar, salir]

Maybe she wants some water

To put out the blow torch [apagar] [explotar; blow torch: soplete]

It isn't me 

We have some seed

Let me clip [despuntar]

Your dirty wings

Let me take a ride

Don't hurt yourself

I want some help

To please myself  [complacer]

I've got some rope [tengo] [cuerda]

You have been told [has estado]

I promise you

I have been true

Let me take a ride

Don't hurt yourself

I want some help

To help myself

Polly wants a cracker

Maybe she would like more food

She asks me to untie her [pedir] [desatar]

A chase would be nice for a few [caza, cacería]

It isn't me

We have some seed

Let me clip

Your dirty wings

Let me take a ride

Don't hurt yourself

I want some help

To please myself

I've got some rope

You have been told

I promise you

I have been true

Let me take a ride

Don't hurt yourself

I want some help

To please myself [Alt: To help myself]

Polly said

Polly says her back hurts  [trasero]

And she's just as bored as me

She caught me off my guard  [atrapó] [guardia apagada]

It amazes me, the will of instinct  [sorprende] [voluntad]

It isn't me

We have some seed

Let me clip

Your dirty wings

Let me take a ride

Don't hurt yourself

I want some help

To please myself

I've got some rope  😵

You have been told

I promise you

I have been true

Let me take a ride

Don't hurt yourself

I want some help

To please myself [Alt: To help myself]

 

On A Plain

I'll start this off without any words [No comprendo uso]

I got so high that I scratched 'til I bled [puse] [arañar] [hasta] [sangrar]

I love myself better than you

I know it's wrong so what should I do? [equivocado]

The finest day that I've ever had [mejor]

Was when I learned to cry on command

I love myself better than you

I know it's wrong so what should I do?

I'm on a plain [llanura]

I can't complain [quejar]

I'm on a plain 

My mother died every night

It's safe to say, don't quote me on that  [citar]

I love myself better than you

I know it's wrong so what should I do?

The black sheep got blackmailed again [chantajeado]

Forgot to put on the zip code 

I love myself better than you

I know it's wrong so what should I do?

I'm on a plain

I can't complain

I'm on a plain

Somewhere I have heard this before [en algún lugar]

In a dream my memory has stored [almacenado]

As a defense I'm neutered and spayed [castrado] [esterilizado]

What the hell am I trying to say?

It is now time to make it unclear  [poco claro, no claro, turbio]

To write off lines that don't make sense  [cancelar, eliminar] [sentido]

I love myself better than you

I know it's wrong so what should I do?

And one more special message to go

And then I'm done, then I can go home

I love myself better than you

I know it's wrong so what should I do?

I'm on a plain

I can't complain

I'm on a plain

I can't complain

I'm on a plain

I can't complain

I'm on a plain

I can't complain

Something In The Way

Underneath the bridge [debajo]

The tarp has sprung a leak  [lona] [saltando] [gotera] [ha surgido una gotera]

And the animals I've trapped [entrampado]

Have all become my pets [convertido]

And I'm living off of grass [vivir fuera]

And the drippings from the ceiling  [goteos] [techo]

It's okay to eat fish 

'Cause they don't have any feelings 

Something in the way, mmm

Something in the way, yeah, mmm

Something in the way, mmm

Something in the way, yeah, mmm

Something in the way, mmm

Something in the way, yeah, mmm

Underneath the bridge

The tarp has sprung a leak

And the animals I've trapped

Have all become my pets

And I'm living off of grass

And the drippings from the ceiling

It's okay to eat fish

'Cause they dont't have any feelings

Something in the way, mmm

Something in the way, yeah, mmm

Something in the way, mmm

Something in the way, yeah, mmm

Something in the way, mmm

Something in the way, yeah, mmm

Something in the way, mmm

Something in the way, yeah, mmm

 

Plateau

Many a hand has scaled the grand old face of the plateau [meseta: montaña parece mesa]

Some belong to strangers and some to folks you know [pertenecen] 

Holy ghosts and talk show hosts are planted in the sand  [santos] [anfitriones] [plantan]

To beautify the foothills and shake the many hands [embellecer] [estribación]

The nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop  [cubo, cubo de agua] [fregona]

And an illustrated book about birds 

You see a lot up there but don't be scared [asustado]

Who needs action when you got words [tienes, obtienes]

When you've finished with the mop then you can stop

And look at what you've done 

The plateau's clean, no dirt to be seen 

And the work it was fun 

There's nothing on the top but a bucket and a mop

And an illustrated book about birds

You see a lot up there but don't be scared

Who needs action when you got words

Well the many hands began to scan around for the next plateau [comienza]

Some said it was in Greenland and some say Mexico

Others decided it was nowhere except for where they stood  [ningún lado] [donde] [estaba]

But those were all just guesses, wouldn't help you if they could [esas] [conjeturas] [no podría] [pudiera]

Oh, Me

If I had to lose a mile [tuviera que]

If I had to touch feelings 

I would lose my soul [tal vez]

The way I do  [la manera]

I don't have to think

I only have to do it

The results are always perfect

And that's old news [esas son]

Would you like to hear my voice

Sprinkled with emotion [salpicado]

Invented at your birth?

I can't see the end of me

My whole expanse I cannot see [entera] [expansión]

I formulate infinity 

Stored deep inside me [profundamente almacenado]

If I had to lose a mile

If I had to touch feelings

I would lose my soul

The way I do

I don't have to think

I only have to do it

The results are always perfect

And that's old news

Would you like to hear my voice

Sprinkled with emotion

Invented at your birth?

I can't see the end of me

My whole expanse I cannot see

[x2]

I formulate infinity

Stored deep inside me

 

Lake Of Fire

Where do bad folks go , when they die? [Dónde]

They don't go to heaven where the angels fly

They go to the lake of fire and fry [se fríen]

Won't see them again 'till the fourth of July [hasta]

I knew a lady who came from Duluth

She got bit by a dog with a rabid tooth [mordida] [diente]

She went to her grave just a little too soon [tumba] [un poco] [apresurada]

And she flew away howling on the yellow moon [voló] [lejos] [aullando]

Where do bad folks go when they die?

They don't go to heaven where the angels fly

They go down to the lake of fire and fry

Won't see them again 'till the fourth of July

Now the people cry and the people moan [gemia]

And they look for a dry place to call their home [seco]

And try to find some place to rest their bones

While the angels and the devils try to make them their own 

Where do bad folks go when they die?

They don't go to heaven where the angels fly

They go down to the lake of fire and fry

Won't see them again 'till the fourth of July

All Apologies

What else should I be? All apologies [qué más]

What else could I say? Everyone is gay 

What else could I write? I don't have the right [derecho a]

What else should I be? All apologies

In the sun, in the sun I feel as one

In the sun, in the sun

Married, buried [enterrado]

I wish I was like you, easily amused [divertida]

Find my nest of salt, everything is my fault [nido] [culpa]

I'll take all the blame, aqua seafoam shame  [culpa] [igual] [espuma marina] [vergüenza]

Sunburn, freezerburn, choking on the ashes of her enemy  [quemadura de sol] [quemadura de frío] [cocinando] [cenizas]

In the sun, in the sun I feel as one

In the sun, in the sun

Married, married

Married, buried

Yeah yeah yeah yeah

All in all is all we are [después de todo, al fin y al cabo]

All in all is all we are 

All in all is all we are

Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me

Tell me where did you sleep last night

In the pines, in the pines [pinos]

Where the sun don't ever shine 

I would shiver the whole night through [tiritando, temblando] [toda] [a través {es auxiliar}] 

My girl, my girl, where will you go

I'm going where the cold wind blows [sopla]

In the pines, in the pines

Where the sun don't ever shine

I would shiver the whole night through

Her husband, was a hard working man 

Just about a mile from here [a penas]

His head was found in a driving wheel  [rueda motriz; volante] [wheel: rueda]

But his body never was found  

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me

Tell me where did you sleep last night

In the pines, in the pines

Where the sun don't ever shine

I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, where will you go

I'm going where the cold wind blows

In the pines, in the pines

Where the sun don't ever shine

I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, don't lie to me

Tell me where did you sleep last night

In the pines, in the pines

Where the sun don't ever shine

I would shiver the whole night through

My girl, my girl, where will you go

I'm going where the cold wind blows

In the pines, in the pines

Where the sun don't ever shine

I would shiver the whole night through