custom tags and qtranslate

Hi,

I am getting my meta from wordpress custom tags and I would like to insert them into the language tags. The problem is it puts in the literal string $keywords instead of the actual keywords. is there a way to escape out and put my php variable in between the language tags.

$keywords= c2c_get_custom(‘keywords’);

_e(‘[:en]

<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ />
<meta name=”keywords” content=”$keywords” />
<meta name=”description” content=”” />

[:es]
spanish meta goes here
</div>

‘); ?>