Mercedes Lyrics in English José Madero

Mercedes is José Madero’s sultry confession of an affair with a temptress who is not quite human. By inhaling her flor, feeling her dulce lumbre, and letting her silence “ese mal narrador,” the singer reveals that Mercedes is really a powerful drug, treated as if she were a lover. She lifts him to Eden, brightens his universe for a fleeting instant, and then leaves him stumbling through a lonely tunnel. Pleasure and danger dance together: the warmth is sweet, yet it burns; the heartbeat is alive, yet off-beat; the high is heavenly, yet it shrinks his world to a couch-sized bubble.

Read this way, every plea ("Desnúdame", "Arrástrame", "Ven, punza mi piel") becomes the raw voice of addiction that admits the price but craves the rush. Gram by gram she erases pain and identity until, without her, cuándo turns into por qué and even prayers lose their amén. By dressing chemical dependency in the language of forbidden romance, Madero shows how easily comfort slips into captivity—and how the sweetest high can hide the steepest fall.