Palmeras En La Nieve Lyrics in English Pablo Alboran

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Palmeras En La Nieve by Pablo Alboran from Spanish to English.
Pieces of paper
Get lost in the sea
Wind that carries them on a random course
How white yesterday is
How sad the future is
Full of questions that never end
Who directs the air?
Who tears the leaves?
Of those palm trees that cry
Who handles the time
That they lose alone?
Who weaves the nets that choke them?
It sails in pain
A rudderless ship
Carrying the memories of the life it left
The sky green and gray
The snow of ivory
Falls on the dream that once could live
But who directs the air?
Who tears the leaves?
Of those palm trees that cry
Who handles the time
That they lose alone?
Who weaves the nets that choke them?
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SONG MEANING

Picture it: towering palm trees – icons of sun-soaked beaches – suddenly dusted with silent, white snow. In Palmeras En La Nieve Pablo Alborán threads that striking image through swirling scraps of paper, a rudder-less ship, and a sky painted green and gray. Each line fires a question into the wind: Who guides the air? Who bends time? The singer watches memories drift like loose pages over the sea, feeling warmth slip into an icy, uncertain future.

What emerges is an aching meditation on nostalgia and powerlessness. The palms “cry” because everything they knew has been uprooted; a love or life that once thrived in tropical heat now shivers beneath ivory snow. Alborán’s voice sails through that contrast, turning uncertainty into melody and inviting us to face our own unanswered questions. Even when we cannot steer the wind or rewind the clock, the song suggests that remembering – and singing – keeps a fragile ember glowing beneath the frost.

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