Wednesday, December 29, 2021

How does Ricky Martin say 'asignatura pendiente' in the English version of the song? Read the lyrics to answer the question. The video is in Spanish.


An urgent matter

I have enough airmiles to go to Pluto
I have a fan club on the moon
An enormous house that I can see from a plane
And in the eyes of some, fortune
 
An army of go-fers
A photo with Bush
A suite in the Waldorf
And more cars than friends
 
I want to not want
I have a pair of mascots who don't know who I am
And amongst everything that I have
I can’t find sufficient reason to forget you
 
Your small hand waving goodbye
That rainy night in San Juan
And the kisses that I took with me
Are only yours, not the ones I gave you
Going busily into the sky,
I forgot that life is better on the ground
My Puerto Rican, my Indian, my love
My unresolved matter
 
My Puerto Rican, my Indian,my love
 
My matter pending
 
I have three offices and a apartment in New York
And King Midas works with me
I have several reasons for being right
that there is no reason worse than oblivion
 
If I connect to the boy that I was,
I want to drop anchor
And other times to escape
to some lost place
 
I want to not want
to buy a ticket to yesterday
And in everything I have
I cannot find reason enough to forget you
 
My Puerto Rican, my Indian, my love
My matter pending



2 comments:

  1. In my opinion, there are two versions of the expression “asignatura pendiente”: “unresolved matter and matter pending”.

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  2. Yes, that's it. However, none of them is exactly the same as the Spanish expression. Or at least, I think so myself.

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