"I Want To Be With You"
Lyrics: A.B. Quintanilla III (Selena's brother)
Album: Anthology, 1998
Style: Tejano, ranchera, happy love song
Country: USA (Texas), with Mexican heritage

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"I Have Nothing Left (But To...)"
Style: Mariachi, sad
Country: USA (Texas)

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This song is about the end of a relationship. Selena sings about having no choice but to come to terms with it, but she does not want to deny that it happened. She was in love! It was wonderful. Listen at YouTube here. Poor Selena!

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"The Call"
Style: Pop, telling a cheating ex to stop calling her
Countries: United States (Texas), Mexico

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This person cheats, gets caught, gets dumped, and then won't stop calling! Selena is just going to keep hanging up. Stop calling her. Listen to the drama at YouTube here. I love songs with stories.

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Translation:

( No me vuelvas a llamar tratando de explicar que lo que vi no era cierto... )

"The Fall", lit. "The Impact" or alt. lit. "The Blast of Wind"
Style: Mariachi
Countries: United States (Texas), Mexico

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This song is full of life advice and metaphors. It speaks about the fall of a great tree; it was so large, and it fell so hard. The song is from Selena Quintanilla-Pérez’s anthology album, disc 2. Listen on YouTube here. ( Read more... )

"Forbidden Love"
Style: Pop, class differences
Country: USA (Texas); Mexico

[Full translation and notes moved to songlations.com]

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This song is a very Romeo and Juliette style of love song, about love between people of different social classes and the disapproval from others. Watch Selena's music video at YouTube here.

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