Album: Laundry Service (2001)

Charted: 2 6

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• Lucky you were born that far away so
  We could both make fun of distance
  Lucky that I love a foreign land for
  The lucky fact of your existence
  
  Baby I would climb the Andes solely
  To count the freckles on your body
  Never could imagine there were only
  Ten million ways to love somebody
  
  Can't you see
  I'm at your feet
  
  Whenever, wherever
  We're meant to be together
  I'll be there and you'll be near
  And that's the deal my dear
  There over, hereunder
  You'll never have to wonder
  We can always play by ear
  But that's the deal my dear
  
  Lucky that my lips not only mumble
  They spill kisses like a fountain
  Lucky that my breasts are small and humble
  So you don't confuse them with mountains
  
  Lucky I have strong legs like my mother
  To run for cover when I need it
  And these two eyes that for no other
  The day you leave will cry a river
  
  At your feet
  I'm at your feet
  
  Whenever, wherever
  We're meant to be together
  I'll be there and you'll be near
  And that's the deal my dear
  There over, hereunder
  You'll never have to wonder
  We can always play by ear
  But that's the deal my dear
  
  Think out loud
  Say it again
  Tell me one more time
  That you'll live
  Lost in my eyes
  
  You're unbelievable
  You're so unbelievable
  You're unbelievable
  
  Alright guys, let's break it down
  Jump, everybody go go go jump up
  
  Whenever, wherever
  We're meant to be together
  I'll be there and you'll be near
  And that's the deal my dear
  There over, hereunder
  You'll never have to wonder
  We can always play by ear
  But that's the deal my dear
  
  Whenever, wherever
  We're meant to be together
  And that's the deal my dear
  There over, hereunder
  You've got me head over heels
  There's nothing left to fear
  If you really feel the way I feel
  The way I feel
  The way I feel
  The way I feel Writer/s: Gloria Estefan, Shakira Mebarak, Tim Mitchell
  Publisher: Foreign Imported Productions & Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 23

• Big Money from Detroit MichiganA true talented artist! One of a kind! Amazing!
• Morris Di'meyah from UgandaBeing her good fan ever, i think it's just fun hearing her columbian accent here in the song
• Mark from ChicagoPersonally I think the English lyrics are way better than the Spanish ones, especially when you look at the chorus, which is clumsy and repetitive in Spanish, tbh.
  
  Also, with respect to: "The English translation is a little goofy, with lines like "Lucky my breasts are small and humble so you don't confuse them with mountains.""
  
  The Spanish lyrics for that line mean the same thing and they're just as goofy sounding in Spanish.
• Chris from Germany @Josh from Hillsdale, Mi
  
  exactly my thoughts.... i had the same thought when i first heard this in 2002. Sounds exactly like DOWN UNDER by MEN AT WORK
• Donna from Ft. Lauderdale, FlThere's a segment on the PBS series "Latin Music USA" explaining how Emilio and Gloria Estefan of Miami Sound Machine helped mentor a young Shakira from unknown to emerging superstar. Emilio says he looked to Shakira's paternal heritage (Middle Eastern - Lebanese - on father's side) when creating a unique image for her. Note the bare midriffs and belly dancing.
• Karen from Metuchen, NjGotta love a song with pan pipes! It makes me want to go somewhere in South/Central America! Love this song; Shakira has a great voice, and they don't have to auto-tune her.
• Chris from South Surrey, BcI'm guessing that the other song to hit it big featuring panpipes was Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer.
• Craig from Melbourne, AustraliaShakira is a true "Earth Woman". She loves to be barefoot. She is bare foot in this clip, and many others (notably the duet with Beyonce). She performs in barefeet. She has beautiful, petite little feet with dainty toes. Her favourite nail polish color is black.
• Dave from Cardiff, WalesChauncey - I don't think it sounds that much like "Aint't It Funny" either, but a number of music critics of the time did!
• Michelle from Springfield, VaI think the spanish version (translated) is way better.
  Michelle Diaz, Springfield,VA.
• Chauncey from Niagara Falls, NyIt soooooooo does NOT sound like JLo's Ain't it Funny.. I find that whole statement funny.. Shakira's lyrics about her breats were only commical. Do you reallly think that she was serious when she said "so you don't confused them with mountains." Give me a break. On the other hand, I totally confuse Pamela Anderson's breasts with Mountains anyday! I also felt that this song had an undertone of having sex whenever and wherever.. but whatever. Shakira=Awesome!
• Dave from Cardiff, WalesAdditionally, when it was released this song also drew comment from some critics who thought it sounded like Jennifer Lopez's 2001 release "Ain't It Funny"
• Jessie Ann from Purchase, NyI don't think the english lyrics are silly at all. I think most of her songs in English and Spanish have the same theme to them of love and womanhood. In english she sings about her breasts and hips, and it s a sign (to me) that she is proud of her womanhood and sexuality. In Spanish it's the same too. In Te Dejo Madrid, there is a lyric that (when translated) means "cats like me land on their feet". I get the same feel from that as I do from her english songs.
• Caitlin from Upper Township, NjI like this song, but only in spanish. I like "Hips Don't Lie" better!
• Anna from U.s, CaThis song was dedicated to her fiancé, the son of Argentina's former president Fernando de la Rua. That´s why it says something about climbin´ the Andes. As for its Spanish translation into English, I have to same it´s pretty much the same to the English version.
• Jazzz from FrankfurtUsually it´s true for Latin songs that the original spanish text is so much better than the english version of the song. This case is different though: The english lyrics posted here are quite an exact translation of the spanish text (I´ve reread the spanish lyrics). Conclusion: even in spanish it´s stupid. At least it sounds nice...
• Josh from Hillsdale, MiThis song reminds me of the Men at Work hit song "Down Under," 20 years earlier. I remember when it was brand new.
• Kelli from Cedar Rapids, Iacould someone post the Spanish lyrics, translated?
• Marlow from Perthwhy would anyone quote "lucky that my breasts are small and humble. so you dont confuse them with mountains" what the hell lyrics are those and shakira honey im yet to confuse a large breast with a mountain.. but hey! maybe im just a one off..
• Kyrie from Raleigh, NcThis song is horrible in English. But then all of her English songs are bad. If you haven't heard her Spanish songs, listen to them and you'll know what I'm talking about. And the country is Colombia, not Columbia.
• Dave from Cardiff, Wales"Whenever, Wherever" was - and still remains - one of only two UK hit singles to feature a panpipe section. The Andean panflutes in this song were inspired by the the traditional Rosminian panpipe chorus "Cacharpaya", a piece of music made famous in 1982 by the avant-garde group Incantation who took Cacharpaya to No. 10 in the UK in that year. Issued as Shakira's debut UK single in early 2002, "Whenever, Wherever" went to No. 2 in the UK charts. Despite the relative commercial failure of follow-up "Underneath Your Clothes" in the UK in August 2002, "Whenever, Whenever" still remains one of the biggest-selling UK singles so far this decade
• Alex from New Orleans, LaMadTV parodied this as "Whatever ,Don't Matter.
• Zack Wiener from Auckland, New ZealandThis song is so good. I personally think that song is better in Spanish, it loses its meaning when translated. Just my opinion. Shakira grew up in Barranquilla, in the secure north of columbia.

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