INTRO — CLOSE FEMALE VOCAL, SPARSE CLAVE, PIANO MONTUNO
Mentiroso...
(Mentiroso...)(Ay, Papi...)
Oye...Don’t look at me like that.
(No nos hagamos más daño...)
VERSE 1
You walk in talking like the fire went cold,como si no supieras what happens when you’re close.
You say, “That was then,”you say, “I moved on,”pero esos ojos tuyossay you’ve been lying all along.
No me vengas con cuentos,I know that little face,the one you make when you’re tryingnot to remember how I taste.
Straighten up your shirt,go ahead and say goodbye,pero, Papi, cuando te miro,your body never learned to lie.
PRE-CHORUS
Dime que no,say it slow,mírame bien,don’t look away.
If it’s really over,why you breathing that way?
(Mentiroso...)(Mentiroso...)(Ay, Papi...)
CHORUS
Mentiroso,mírame a los ojos,tell me you don’t want mewhen your hands say that you do.
Mentiroso,no me digas “no,”we both know this firenever learned to let us go.
Ay, Papi...qué rico mientes tú.
You lie so beautifully...
and maybe I’m a liar too.
(Mentiroso...)(Ay, Papi...)(No nos hagamos más daño...)
POST-CHORUS — CALL AND RESPONSE
Mentiroso...
(Mentiroso...)
Ay, Papi...
(Ay, Papi...)
No juegues conmigo.
(No, no, no...)
Tú sabes bien.
[Brass stab]
VERSE 2
I still know your silence,I still know that look,every little hiding placewhere you go when your heart gets shook.
I know when you’re restless,I know when you’re mad,sé cuándo estás pensando’bout the fire we used to have.
You call it history,my body calls it memory,tú dices “ya se acabó,”one little touch and...
Ay, Papi.
(Ay, Papi...)
Build a hundred walls,disappear a thousand miles,pero one little “Hola, Papi”and there goes that old smile.
PRE-CHORUS 2
Dime que no,say it clean,swear to me you feel no heat.
Pero, mi amor,stop looking at my lipswhen you’re talking to me.
(Mentiroso...)(Mentiroso...)(Ay, Papi...)
CHORUS
Mentiroso,mírame a los ojos,tell me you don’t want mewhen your heartbeat says you do.
Mentiroso,no me digas “no,”you can walk away,but the fire already knows.
Ay, Papi...qué peligro eres tú.
You lie so beautifully...
and maybe I’m a liar too.
(Mentiroso...)(Ay, Papi...)(No nos hagamos más daño...)(Mentiroso...)
INSTRUMENTAL BREAK — MONTUNO, CONGAS, MUTED TRUMPET
[Female Ad-Libs]
Ay...Oye, Papi...Tú sabes...No me mires así...
(Mentiroso...)(Mentiroso...)
BRIDGE — PERCUSSION DROPS
Maybe I held too tight.Maybe you disappeared.Maybe we called it passionwhen both of us were scared.
Quizás te hice daño.Quizás tú a mí también.Maybe every time we touchedwe forgot how it would end.
(No nos hagamos más daño...)(No nos hagamos más daño...)
Don’t you rewrite me.No me borres así.There were nights you needed someoneand you still reached for me.
I don’t need forever.No te estoy pidiendo más.But don’t stand there pretendingthere was nothing left behind.
(Mentiroso...)(Mentiroso...)
BREAKDOWN — INTIMATE, ALMOST SPOKEN
Mentiroso...
Papi...
you remember.
Claro que sí.
You remember the good.You remember the bad.
And you remember exactlywhy we shouldn’t stand this close.
[Brief silence]
Ay, Papi...
(No nos hagamos más daño...)
FINAL CHORUS — FULL BRASS, BIGGEST ARRANGEMENT
MENTIROSO,mírame a los ojos!
Tell me you don’t want mewhen your whole body says you do.
MENTIROSO,no me digas “no!”
We can change the story,but the fire already knows.
Ay, Papi...qué peligro somos tú y yo.
You lie so beautifully...
but I’ve been lying to myself too.
(Mentiroso!)(Ay, Papi!)(Mentiroso!)(Ay, Papi!)
(No nos hagamos más daño...)(No nos hagamos más daño...)
FINAL REFRAIN — STRIPPED BACK
No eres mío.
I know.
(Mentiroso...)
Y yo no soy tuya.
You know.
(Ay, Papi...)
Pero no me olvidaste.
And I never forgot you.
OUTRO — INTIMATE, BITTERSWEET
Mentiroso...
(Mentiroso...)
Ay, Papi...
(No nos hagamos más daño...)
[Soft female laugh]
Yo tampoco.
[Muted trumpet flourish]
[Final brass hit — clean stop]
