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The Hotel Pianist Knows Our Secret

“The Hotel Pianist Knows Our Secret” brings together English and Spanish. Its musical genre is Soul.

Lyrics & translation ↓
The Hotel Pianist Knows Our Secret

English ↔ Spanish

About this song

The first paired lines are “The lobby doors swing open wide.” and “Las puertas del vestíbulo se abren de golpe.”. Read the complete lyrics in both languages below, then follow the same phrases in the player.

A couple returns each year to a hotel piano where they first met, unaware the pianist remembers everything. Wedding soul pop, 86 BPM, warm piano, electric bass, soft live drums, luminous strings, tender articulate alto, memorable original melody

Learn with this song

Listen to each line and compare its translation. Use Twin to switch to the same phrase in the other language; use Echo to recall its meaning before revealing the translation.

Twin ⇄Echo ✧Three words at a time.

Two languages. One melody.

Lyrics & translation

EnglishSpanish

Verse

The lobby doors swing open wide.

Las puertas del vestíbulo se abren de golpe.

You check in with a smile.

Te registras con una sonrisa.

It has been exactly one year.

Ha pasado un año exacto.

The same suite on the third floor.

La misma suite en la tercera planta.

Chorus

I play their hesitant waltz once more.

Toco otra vez su vals vacilante.

The ring once hid beneath that napkin.

El anillo estuvo escondido bajo esa servilleta.

I play their hesitant waltz once more.

Toco otra vez su vals vacilante.

The ring once hid beneath that napkin.

El anillo estuvo escondido bajo esa servilleta.

Verse

You sit by the grand piano.

Te sientas junto al gran piano.

Holding hands like the first day.

De la mano como el primer día.

She orders a glass of wine.

Ella pide una copa de vino.

He adjusts his old black tie.

Él ajusta su corbata negra.

I watch from the ivory keys.

Observo desde las teclas de marfil.

Chorus

I play their hesitant waltz once more.

Toco otra vez su vals vacilante.

The ring once hid beneath that napkin.

El anillo estuvo escondido bajo esa servilleta.

I play their hesitant waltz once more.

Toco otra vez su vals vacilante.

The ring once hid beneath that napkin.

El anillo estuvo escondido bajo esa servilleta.

Verse

Ten years of this quiet ritual.

Diez años de este ritual silencioso.

You think I am just background.

Piensas que soy solo el fondo.

But I saw your first kiss.

Pero vi vuestro primer beso.

And I saw the ring hidden.

Y vi el anillo escondido.

I keep your secret safe here.

Guardo vuestro secreto a salvo aquí.

Chorus

I play their hesitant waltz once more.

Toco otra vez su vals vacilante.

The ring once hid beneath that napkin.

El anillo estuvo escondido bajo esa servilleta.

I play their hesitant waltz once more.

Toco otra vez su vals vacilante.

The ring once hid beneath that napkin.

El anillo estuvo escondido bajo esa servilleta.