Que Se Llama Soledad Lyrics in English Joaquín Sabina , Joan Manuel Serrat

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Que Se Llama Soledad by Joaquín Sabina from Spanish to English.

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Sometimes I fly and other times

I crawl too close to the ground

Some dawns I stay awake

And wander like a cat in heat

Patrolling the city

In search of a kitten

In that d*mned hour when the bars

Are about to close

When the soul needs

A body to caress

Sometimes I live, and other times

My life slips away with what I write

Sometimes I search for an adjective

Inspired and possessive

That scratches your heart

Then I cast my message

It's taken as luggage

by a bottle

To the sea of your misunderstanding

I don't want to blackmail you

I just want

To give you a song

And sometimes I tend to rest

My head on the moon's shoulder

And I tell her of that inconvenient lover

Whose name is loneliness

And sometimes I tend to rest

My head on the moon's shoulder

And I tell her of that inconvenient lover

Whose name is loneliness

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SONG MEANING

Ever felt like you have two sides? One day you're flying high, and the next you're crawling on the ground. That's the feeling Spanish legend Joaquín Sabina captures in this poetic song. He paints a picture of an artist's life, full of contrasts. He describes late nights spent wandering the city like a restless cat, searching for connection just as the world is going to sleep. It’s a powerful look at the struggle between truly living life and just writing about it.

But the heart of the song is a beautiful and sad secret. Sabina feels misunderstood, like he's sending a message in a bottle that never gets read. So, who does he talk to? The moon. He rests his head on the moon's shoulder and tells it all about his constant, unwelcome companion: an 'inconvenient lover' whose name is Loneliness (Soledad). It's a deeply personal confession about the solitude that often comes with being a creative soul.

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