La Chispa Adecuada Lyrics in English Héroes del Silencio

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song La Chispa Adecuada by Héroes del Silencio from Spanish to English.
Verse 1
The words were wasps
And the streets like dunes
When I still wait for you to arrive
In a coffin I keep your touch and a crown
With your tangled hair
Wanting to find an endless rainbow
My hands that are still bone
And your belly tastes like bread
The cathedral is your body
You were summer and a thousand storms
And I the lion that smiles at the walls
That I have painted again the same color
Chorus 1
I don't know how to tell kisses from roots
I don't know how to tell the complicated from the simple
And now you're on my list
Of promises to forget
Everything burns if you apply the right spark
Verse 2
The fire that was sometimes my own
The ash always someone else's
White sperm sliding down the spine!
We're already older and more sincere and who cares
If we stare at the lagoon that they call eternity
Of absence
Chorus 2
I don't know how to tell kisses from roots
I don't know how to tell the complicated from the simple
And now you're on my list
Of promises to forget
Everything burns if you apply the right spark
Outro
The right spark
The right spark
The right spark
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SONG MEANING

Imagine words that sting like wasps, streets that feel like shifting dunes, and a heart that still keeps the touch of a lover locked inside a coffin. “La Chispa Adecuada” paints love as a volatile chemical waiting for the right spark. With surreal images — cathedrals made of skin, rainbows that never end, bread-flavored desire — the singer looks back on a relationship so intense that it blurred all boundaries: kisses vs. roots, the simple vs. the complex. Passion once felt properly his, yet its ashes always ended up on someone else’s hands; every promise, every memory can burn if you apply the perfect spark.

Bunbury’s voice swings between nostalgia and rebellion. He admits they are older and more honest now, but that honesty only makes the void wider, the “lagoon of eternity” clearer. Putting the lover on a “list of promises to forget” is both brave and impossible, because the smallest spark will reignite everything. The song becomes an anthem for anyone who knows that fierce, all-consuming love can be both creation and destruction — and that sometimes the only difference between the two is la chispa adecuada, the right spark.

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