What it's about

The singer describes her routine: she wakes up with the sun, drinks water, reads, walks, and has dinner at the same time. Everything repeats de lunes a viernes y el fin de semana. In the bridge, very occasionally, she breaks the routine, goes with the flow, and then starts all over again.

Adverbs of frequency

From most to least frequent:

  • siempre: Siempre me despierto cuando sale el sol
  • normalmente: Normalmente ceno a las ocho en punto
  • a menudo: A menudo leo
  • a veces: A veces camino si hace buen clima
  • rara vez / raramente: they mean the same thing. Raramente cambio...
  • nunca: Nunca llego tarde
Watch out with nunca: before the verb it stands alone (nunca llego tarde). After the verb it needs no: no llego nunca tarde.

Useful words and expressions

  • despertarse: me despierto (reflexive verb)
  • cuando sale el sol: at sunrise
  • de lunes a viernes: the workdays; el fin de semana: Saturday and Sunday
  • a las ocho en punto: at eight exactly
  • llegar tarde: not arriving on time
  • sin prisa: calmly, without rushing
  • dejarse llevar: not planning, going with the flow
  • cambiar de plan: doing something different from what was planned
  • de Pascuas a Ramos: idiomatic expression meaning "very occasionally, almost never"

Grammar

  • Present indicative for habits and routines: bebo, leo, camino, ceno.
  • Stem-changing verbs: despertar → me despierto, seguir → sigo, volver → vuelvo. And the irregular hacer → hago.
  • Simple future: mañana haré igual.
  • Imperative: escucha mi voz.
  • Condition with si: si hace buen clima.

Poetic license for the rhyme

  • si hace buen clima: it is normal to say si hace buen tiempo. Clima is used here to rhyme with cima.
  • estoy en la cima: means "I am at the top." Here it is just an image for the rhyme, not a usual way of saying you are punctual.
  • cambio todo este asunto: sounds forced; you would rather say cambio mi rutina. It is phrased like this to rhyme with punto.
  • tengo el control: filler phrase to rhyme with sol.
  • mañana haré igual: it is understandable, but mañana haré lo mismo or mañana lo haré igual is more natural.
  • el tiempo va veloz: this is poetic. In everyday speech people say el tiempo pasa rápido.