JUEVES - LYRICS ("Don’t you want me")

- Don’t you want me – The Human League

You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar

when I met you.

I picked you out, I shook you up

and turned you around,

turned you into someone new.

Now five years later on

you've got the world at your feet.

Success has been so easy for you.

But don't forget

it's me who put you where you are now,

and I can put you back there too.

Don't, don't you want me?

You know I can't believe it

when I hear that you won't see me.

Don't, don't you want me?

You know I don't believe you

when you say that you don't need me.

It's much too late to find

when you think you've changed your mind.

You'd better change it back

or we will both be sorry.

Don't you want me, baby?

Don't you want me, oh? (x2)

I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar,

that much is true.

But even then I knew I'd find

a much better place

either with or without you.

The five years we have had

have been such good times.

I still love you.

But now I think it's time

I live my life on my own.

I guess it's just what I must do.

Don't, don't you want me?

You know I can't believe it

when I hear that you won't see me.

Don't, don't you want me?

You know I don't believe you

when you say that you don't need me.

It's much too late to find

when you think you've changed your mind.

You'd better change it back

or we will both be sorry.

Don't you want me, baby?

Don't you want me, oh? (x6)

- Notas: A mí el protagonista de la canción me acojona por las amenazas que le hace a la señora con eso de que si no cambia de idea ambos se arrepentirán (“change it back or we will both be sorry”) o eso de que “yo te puse donde estás y puedo hacer que vuelvas al lugar del que saliste si no haces lo que te digo” (“it's me who put you where you are now, and I can put you back there too”).

El tema de la canción está claro: Chico influyente conoce camarera y la convierte en una estrella, y ahora ella le manda a tomar viento, cosa que él no recibe nada bien. No es una historia de amor que ha salido mal sino una historia de dominación y poder.

La historia de la canción se les ocurrió al grupo tras ver una historia similar en una revista y basándose en la película “Ha nacido una estrella” (“A star is born”).

- 1. “…picked you out …” = Para hablar de elegir una cosa de entre un montón de cosas similares se usa el phrasal “to pick out”. Implica el tener la capacidad de discriminar o distinguir entre lo mejor del montón para ser eso lo que se elije, como la fruta en el supermercado evitando las manzanas en las que las señoras mayores meten la uña para ver si están maduras.

- 2. “…shook you up …” = El phrasal “to shake up” es otro de esos phrasal con un sentido estricto como es el de agitar algo como si fuera una coctelera, y el metafórico de sacudir algo en el sentido de cambiarlo por completo de modo brusco, como de una sacudida fuerte. Podría traducirse por algo similar a “cambiar de golpe” o algo así.

- 3. “…turned you around …” = “To turn around” es un phrasal que se usa para hablar de “dar la vuelta” o “girar” algo, aquí se usa en sentido metafórico para indicar el cambiar a la otra persona de los pies a la cabeza y convertirla en algo completamente nuevo y mucho mejor.