March 06, 2010, 10:58 AM
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Diamond
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: España próximamente??
Posts: 2,923
Native Language: Inglés
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Originally Posted by Perikles
It's got to be this morning, surely. She sounds impatient enough.
Edit: oops, sorry, cross-posting
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Rusty
First of all, remember that songs are never translated word for word. There's a feeling to the song that must be translated, not just the lyrics. The feeling is often lost in the translation.
literally: esta madrugada = this dawn or this daybreak (at the break of day this morning)
You could substitute 'this morning at the break of day' ('at today's first light', etc.), but the feeling I got from the song wasn't expressing "today's dawning" to me. So, I threw out the demonstrative pronoun and used 'at daybreak'. That can mean today's daybreak, as well as tomorrow's. The overall song is talking about what she is dying to do (in the near future), not something she has already done. The expediency of the song would rule out 'in general'. It could only mean 'first thing tomorrow morning, at daybreak'.
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Gracias Rusty, it´s the feeling that must be translated as you said
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