Ángel Lyrics in English by India Martinez
Deshojas comes from the verb 'deshojar', which means to pluck or strip the petals or leaves from something, one by one, often in a slow and almost ritual way, like the old game of plucking petals to answer a question of love.
India Martínez sings "Deshojas flores de papel" ("You pluck paper flowers"), painting a delicate, bittersweet image of someone carefully pulling apart something fragile and symbolic. The word is far more specific and poetic than a plain verb like 'remove' or 'tear'.
India Martínez sketches a portrait of Ángel, a man lost somewhere between dream and reality. He "pinta lunas de metal" [paints metal moons] and "deshojas flores de papel" [plucks paper flowers], "enamorado de la nada" [in love with nothing]. He sleeps alone on the sofa, and the singer watches over him because she knows he hides "un alma de grandeza" [a soul of greatness]. The chorus turns inward, imagining what it would be to love him — "el delirio de tu universo" [the delirium of your universe] — before the final verse names the real wound: "te juzgan por ser diferente" [they judge you for being different].
