Paste any non-English lyrics and receive a clear English rendering that preserves both literal meaning and artistic intent. Verses, choruses, and hooks stay in their original order so you can follow the song's rhythm while reading the translation. Works for a single couplet or an entire track.
You love the song but you do not speak the language. The melody works, the voice is right, but the words are a black box. That is where a proper lyrics translation helps. Paste the line you want to understand, and you get an English version that keeps the meaning of the original without flattening the emotion into word-for-word literal output. It works for a single phrase from the chorus or for a full track.
This tool is built for people who care about what the song is actually saying. Casual machine translation often turns a Spanish love song into something that sounds like a user manual. Good lyric translation does the opposite. It keeps the tone, the imagery, and the feel of the original line while giving you English you can read without friction.
Paste the lyric, choose the language you want the translation in, and read the result. You can work with a single line ("te quiero aunque duela", for example) or a whole verse. The translation keeps the structure of the original: verses stay as verses, choruses as choruses, so the English version sits next to the source and you can follow along while the song plays.
Unlike generic translators, this one understands that song lyrics are not prose. A line like "mi corazón está hecho pedazos" is not "my heart is made of pieces" in any useful sense. It is "my heart is broken", and a translation that does not know that misses the song. Context around the phrase, even a short chorus line, usually gives the translator enough to pick the right English version.
Almost any language you are likely to hear in popular music:
Older songs work the same as new releases. The phrasing in a 1970s chanson is different from a 2024 French rap track, but the translator handles period language as long as you paste the line as it appears in the song.
These three categories cover most of what people search for when they want a song translated into English.
K-pop lyrics mix Korean with English hooks and sometimes Japanese or Mandarin. A good translation keeps the bilingual texture of the song instead of forcing everything into flat English. Idol group ad-libs, onomatopoeia, and Korean sentence-ending particles carry meaning that a word-level translator skips, so context matters.
Latin and Spanish-language songs come with slang that shifts fast and varies by country. "Chamba", "guayaba", "perreo", "nena", "gato" all have different weights in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, or Spain. The translation picks the reading that fits the artist and the genre, so a reggaetón line does not come out sounding like an essay.
Anime openings and endings often use older or more poetic Japanese than conversational speech. Kanji compounds, archaic verb forms, and references to nature or mythology show up a lot. The English version preserves the imagery without stretching the line into a paragraph.
A general translator is optimised for sentences that follow normal grammar. Songs are not that. Lines get inverted for rhyme. Subjects get dropped because the singer is obvious from context. Metaphors are stacked on top of each other in three words. A generic translator reads these like broken prose and outputs a literal mess.
Song lyric translation needs three things that regular translation often ignores: the cultural reference behind a slang word, the emotional register (angry, soft, cocky, wounded), and the artistic structure (rhyme, repetition, hook). Keeping all three in mind is what separates a translation you would share with a friend from one that reads like a puzzle piece.
For anyone learning a new language through music, the side-by-side view is the main feature. You see the source line on one side and the English on the other, so you can follow along as the song plays. This is how most people figure out what a favourite track actually means, line by line, without needing a dictionary app.
The view also helps when you want to quote a lyric. Knowing the exact English equivalent of a famous Spanish chorus or a K-pop hook means you can explain the song to someone else without guessing at the meaning.
Translating a line is often the first step. Once you know what the song says, you may want to hear it again with fresh ears. If you arrived here without knowing the track name, the Find Song by Lyrics tool on the site can identify the song from the original phrase or from the translated one. If you are in a mood-first state and cannot remember any words at all, the Mood Finder recommends songs based on a feeling or a scene you describe.
Yes. Paste the entire lyrics block. The translator keeps the verse and chorus structure intact, so the English version maps cleanly to the source.
Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Turkish, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, Greek, Polish, and more. If you are unsure, paste the line and the tool will detect the source language automatically.
Not always, and that is on purpose. Forcing rhyme in English often changes the meaning, and meaning is what most people actually want. If you specifically need a singable rhymed version, that is a different job best done by a human lyricist.
For regular prose, Google Translate is fine. For song lyrics, a tool tuned to metaphor, slang, and line-level poetics usually reads more naturally. You can try both on the same line and compare if you want to see the difference.
Most of the time, yes. Common slang in major pop-music languages (Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese) is handled well. Very regional or very new slang sometimes needs context, so pasting two or three lines instead of one helps.
Yes. The tool does not care whether the source is a published song or something you are working on. Paste your lyrics and read the translation.
Translation is not a one-answer problem, especially for creative text. Small variations in phrasing are normal. If one version reads better than another, that is the one to keep.
No daily or monthly limit. The tool is free and does not require an account.