Mariachi Lyrics Archive

Lo Mucho Que Te Quiero (Con Mariachi)

How much? Too much to measure. Lo Mucho Que Te Quiero is the love that has outgrown every comparison and needs a full mariachi to hold it.

About the Song

Lo Mucho Que Te Quiero is a contemporary mariachi love ballad by Mariachi Nuevo Real in the grand tradition of Mexican canciones de amor that attempt to quantify what cannot be quantified. The tradition of measuring love — how much, how deeply, by what standard — runs through Mexican music from the colonial love poetry set to music in the 18th century to the great boleros of the 20th. The mariachi ensemble gives such declarations their fullest possible frame: brass, strings, and full ensemble to hold a feeling too large for everyday speech.

Meaning of the Song

Lo Mucho Que Te Quiero is the song for the love that has run out of comparisons. How much? Immeasurably. Too much to contain. You are the reason for morning and the reason for night — when someone is both your sunrise and your stars, words fail and mariachi has to take over. Mariachi Nuevo Real plays this with the fullness it deserves: a love this large needs all the instruments.

Lyrics / Letra

Quisiera que supieres vida mia
Lo mucho que te quiero y que te adoro
Tu vives en mi pensamiento
Y ahora me arrepiento si yo te hice llorar

Yo nunca te hablo a ti con la mentira
Yo siempre te hablo a ti con la verdad
Quisiera que olvides el pasado
Que vuelvas a mi lado
Que tengas compasión

Believe me when I say how much I love you
Believe me when I say how much I care
Forgive me, give me peace of mind
All I need is time to prove my love for you

Quisiera que supieres vida mia
Lo mucho que te quiero y que te adoro
Tu vives en mi pensamiento
Y ahora me arrepiento si yo te hice llorar

Believe me when I say how much I love you
Believe me when I say how much I care
Forgive me, give me peace of mind
All I need is time to prove my love for you

English Translation

How much I love you
how much I need you by my side
how much I love you
you are my light, you are my life

With you I've learned what happiness is
with you I've discovered what love means
you are the reason that I get up each morning
and the reason I want the night to come

How much I love you
I could not measure it
how much I love you
could not be contained