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[cimorene]

fría como una estatua de sal
en un mausoleo de cristál
seca hasta los huesos por llorar
y muerto come puede estar
tiberio en su guacal
toda en ruinas como el partenón
sola como terminó colón
y vista de mona lisa
amargada como un limón
arrugada como accordeón

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[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Damn. I need to take a Spanish refresher course...I don't understand nearly enough of Shakira's lyrics as I want to. (I took 6 years of Spanish, and it's been 3.5 since my last one.)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

it's actually 'palida como una mona lisa'--

cold as a statue of salt
in a glass palace
dry to the bones from crying
and as dead as tiberius could possibly be
in his crate.
all in ruins like the parthenon,
as alone as columbus when he died,
as pale as a mona lisa,
sour as a lemon
and wrinkled as an accordion.

[implicit but not stated through all of this is that she's describing herself without her love interest, as the chorus is 'return...']

it continues, as well,

like the liar when
he lost his nose,
like alexander the great without his sword
and without his shield,
like a poor christian
in the imperial roman fighting ring.