1. |
Green Guava
03:06
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Si yo soy mala mujer
what does that make you?
Show me the way into your world
don’t fake, I know you're aching too
mamacita nadie besa como tú
déjame llegar por fin
disfrutar de tu sabor
guayaba verde, cafecito
me cansé de esperar
entregame tu dulce amor
mi cosita me tortura tu calor
you are mi guayaba verde
dulzura inminente
desde noviembre te busco
in the shadows, in the street late in the night
you turn yellow, te camelo
ya te tengo por debajo de mi piel
there’s no way that I can fight it
no me digas
know I need to make it right
si yo fuera menos cobarde
tú menos tarde en llegar
then I would love you like I long to
but there’s no way, it’s too great a leap
I cant reach you where you are
yo te pierdo que no entiendo como amarte
you are mi guayaba verde
dulzura inminente
mi guayaba, green guava
mi guayaba, green guava
mi guayaba, green guava
mi guayaba
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2. |
Hello Platonia
03:37
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Hello Platonia
Friday on Frith Street
Tunnels of concrete
Drag queens and deadbeats get down
The band starts late
I wait outside
Footsteps, fast pace, long stride
Corona
over priced
Big town
And we do nonchalance
Pile of possessions well-hidden
Synchronising by chance
Our particular rhythms
Side-step religion
I’ve got a vision of the way things could go that I try to suppress
Eyes like a prism refract the light of the street lamp
I feel my heart beat through my dress
Holes in the soles of my boots let in late summer rain
Your black rubber bottoms are new
You dance on the cobbles you’re drawing me in
Hello Platonia
Hinterhof balcony where
Vitamin vapours don’t reach us
You sign to the neighbours it’s three, three, three in the morn
Take it back to the roots, early Wailers and Toots
I don’t know what to do with my hands
Who am I? Who are you?
What’s a bad girl to do with a hat-wearing man?
Purpley haze
I’m avoiding your gaze
Having caught it a mere two days before
I wore my new jacket
Half mile from where I was born
Hello Platonia
Unfamiliar room
Our red-velvet cocoon keeps out the light and the lives of the others
It’s too late, too soon
I sleep over the covers
No I’m not high,
No I don’t like the thought of your skin against mine
No I’m not lovely, I’m trouble
I do what I want and I take what I like
Fever
All through the night
Let me hold you at least
Put my face in the cease of the skin ‘tween his jaw and his shoulder
Elegant beast settles down to her feast
I guess I‘ll be good when I’m older
Fuck it here goes
God only knows when I’ll eventually stop it
I say ‘I’m horrible’
You say ‘girl, it’s not our fault that we fit’
Hello Platonia
Someday ambrosia
I would recall twelve hours later
Replay, reduce
And put down on paper…
Hello Platonia
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3. |
To Lose
03:21
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To Lose
Warn the town the beast is loose
Amsterdam, Berlin, Toulouse
She’s out to bewlider and abuse anyone that’s in her way
Warn the town the beast is loose
Amsterdam, Berlin, to lose
Is to try when you know you can’t refuse her wicked way
And she says hey
(why dont you come out and play)
Come out and play
Hey
(don’t you know that it’s OK)
It’s OK
Warn the town the beast is loose
Looking for a little fun, a litle rum and juice
She’ll have you dancing on the roof until the night is day
Some may say you have to choose
But nothing hurts more than the truth
And love is larger than two hearts
There’s no-one to blame
It’s always the same
So hey
(baby won’t you stay with me)
Why don’t you stay?
Hey
(don’t you know that it’s OK)
It’s OK
There aint no better way
There aint no better way
There aint no better way to lose
Warn the town the beast is loose
Amsterdam, Berlin, to lose
Is to try when you know you can’t refuse her wicked way
Warn the town the beast is loose
Amsterdam, Berlin, tu luz
Se apaga like I knew it would
Cuando la lluvia came
But hey
There aint no better way
There aint no better way
There aint no better way to lose
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4. |
Tú Llorarás
03:00
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Tú llorarás por mi
Nunca me digas que no te avisé
Tú llorarás por mi
I put it clearer than the light of the day
I hear the words though you don’t say nothing I
I can read them in your face
I fear the worst I get blurry honey
I been getting high off your embrace
Echate pa ca escucha bien lo que te voy a decirte yo te diré una solita vez y es que
Not all that glitters is gold and I know you’ve been told by your daddy that
The devil wears a dress
Tú llorarás por mi
Nunca me digas que no te avisé
Tú llorarás por mi
I put it clearer than the light of the day
Tú llorarás por mi
Nunca me digas que no te avisé
Tú llorarás por mi
I put it clearer than the light of the day
I tell you no but I keep on coming through
There ain’t no question that you ought to
Turn and run but summer skies get hazy blue
They say there’s something in the water
¿Dónde está el epicentro de el terremoto que tienes en tu corazón?
You best help yourself quick or you’ll stick and you’ll cry even longer
the day I get gone
Oh, it gets cold
Closed curtains and red wine
Oh, I’m not yours to hold
You’re wasting your time, don’t
Don’t it get old?
What are you deaf and blind?
You know, you’ve been told
But there’s no reason or rhyme with you
Tú llorarás por mi
Nunca me digas que no te avisé
Tú llorarás por mi
I put it clearer than the light of the day
Tú llorarás por mi
Nunca me digas que no te avisé
Tú llorarás por mi
I put it clearer than the light of the day
Oh, it gets cold
Closed curtains and red wine
Oh, I’m not yours to hold
You’re wasting your time, don’t
Don’t it get old?
What are you deaf and blind?
You know, you’ve been told
But there’s no reason or rhyme with you
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5. |
H.I.M.
03:49
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H.I.M.
He said:
I wanna paint you, recreate you
Fix you in colour and line
Freeze you in time
Early November and the weather’s benign
Face in the mirror I see grey in the green eyes
Won’t you write one for me?
I said be careful what you wish for
He thinks he’s taking the lead
But I’ve been here before
M
E
N
I keep him safe
I keep him hidden
Half a habit I have from when our love was forbidden
I said: I’ll help you if you need to forget me
Realised I loved him in the backseat of a taxi
Pankow bis Frankfurter Tor
We told the driver we were married
I woke up alone on the floor
Knowing all that I needed was
H
I
M
Last week I met a long lost lover and I told him he belittled me
He looked up from the table, into my eyes and said:
You shouldn’t take me seriously
I said: I don’t now, but you know how I did then
No matter how cold you make yourself out to be
Don't you ever, never pretend you don't remember
Victoria
Gloria
There’s been a collision of head and of heart
My own indecision has torn me apart
And now I just feel so hollow
Today I exist but I’ll be living tomorrow
What have I done?
If I make it through this winter
I’ll run away to the sun
They say the grass is always green
Green is good
And so is he
Green is good
And so is he
I want to paint you
Recreate you
Fix you in colour and line
Freeze you in time
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6. |
José Martí
03:15
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Jose Martí
Drunk on loving and wine
Say it every time that we’re waiting in line at Jose Martí
‘oh cruel world, why wont you let this man just take my hand and fly away with me?’
I would stay if I could
With my king of the hood
We had it so good in the summertime love
Then winter came
And once again I’m leaving him behind me at the borderline
But my heart se queda contigo
That way I know we will go on and on and on,
and on and on and on
Just like the songs we sing
And primavera llegará
Tu verás mi amor, mi luz, mi sol we’ll fool them all my darling
Tu verás
Tu verás
That I will never forget you,
I’d be lost if I let you, lost if I let you go
Muchos anos después recordaría la mía
Aquella estrella fugaz de aquella noche, la que la partió en dos
Que la dejó desorientada, que la llenó de mil baladas que aun saldrán
Muchos anos después se daría cuenta
Que la vida es larga y lenta
Y que falta el sol a veces sí,
pero ni el gris, ni la lluvia pueden ser eternos
Que luz, calor y besos siempre volverán
Aunque sean muchos muchísimos anos después
Tu verás
Tu verás
That I will never forget you,
I’d be lost if I let you, lost if I let you go
And if you wait
Darling you'll see
Though we're apart, you've got my heart
Tú y yo, you and me, por siempre
José Martí
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7. |
Canción Imparable
03:49
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Canción Imparable
El odio
el odio no puede ganar
mientras la gente cante
así así, ahí ahí
Ni el malo
ni el bruto lo puede negar
la vibra le va a llegar
ahí ahí, así así
El odio
el odio no va a vencer
al bueno si baile usted
así así, ahí ahí
Canta, canta, canta
quiero oírte cantar
háblame de tus penas
y veras que vuelas
Baila, baila, baila
quiero verte bailar
echa todo pa’ fuera
y veras que vuelas
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8. |
Don't Jump
03:01
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Don't Jump
Look at me surrounded by my literature
Seeking out a phrase for him to contemplate a little
Who are we to let ourselves indulte in this?
This sweet melodic haze,
Who are you to say we shouldn’t
Let the music flow, oh oh
Let the music flow, oh oh
Look at me ecstatic at the sight of you
Trying to hold it in and crawling in my skin from all the
Will it takes to wait until the morning dew
Can shroud us to combine ten seconds of our time so we can
Let the music flow, oh oh
Let the music flow, oh oh
The sea was blue and the wind was warm
You said ‘don’t jump or you’ll get stung’
But I was on the bottom rung
With my feet in the water
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
With my feet in the water
Ooh ooh ooh oh
Look at me the solitary temptress
Keeling myself cold I never held a hope
but it’s a pity to forever give a little less of me than what I could
it always sounds so good when we can
Let the music flow, oh oh
Let the music flow, oh oh
The sea was blue and the wind was warm
You said ‘don’t jump or you’ll get stung’
But I was on the bottom rung
With my feet in the water
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
With my feet in the water
Ooh ooh ooh oh
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9. |
Never Or Now
04:14
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Never or Now
I wait for a sign
A knock or a number
A way in the night
Take me to wonderland
I’ve been there before
and I want more
It’s you, it’s you, it’s you it’s you again
Come in out of the blue
Into this crazy thing
Oooh
It’s never or now
We embrace this
Our passionate present
Sunrise we set sail
To walk in your wake
is so painfully pleasant
I’m a fool I admit
I admit I’m a fool for you
What are we, what is this?
What are you, what am I to do?
Doooo, with you
It’s early I’ll go now
I know how it works
I’m well versed in this shit
I rehearsed for you Darling
Now come on let’s prove it was worth it
Be still my heart you’ll give us both away
You’ve gotta learn
There’s things it just ain't safe to say
Like I don't ever want to let you go
oh oh oh oh oh
If I don’t get your love, if I can’t have your love I’ll die
And it isn’t enough, and it’s never enough, it’s enough now to make me cry
I guess it's all in the script
so let's jam on this riff cause I feel it
I guess it's all in the script
so let's jam on this riff cause I feel it
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10. |
Santiago
03:35
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Seventeen Four Five
The driver closed the door
Unsure of what I’ve behind
I look up, I look out, I look forward
All of the people walking
they don't know what towards
They say five days there’s been no sun
On all the walls, odes to revolution
Oh the rain
I’m on my way
Today’s the day before the day that changes everything
Oh what a load to carry
with such little sleep
The heat
All of the clouds disperse
All of the hills are steep
Sweet imported coffee
Black for lack of appetite
It might've been the change in climate
but maybe it was more than that
Oh again
My gut aches
Digame señora como llego a la Plaza de Martes
He gave me twenty minutes
I am fashionably late
He ate and claimed the loma
Met a stranger who believed believed in fate
Eight stories high, two shots of rum, one drunk, one cigarette
The orbit of planeta x makes it harder to detect
Oh refrain
We meet again
You’re different now no doubt
but faces change while souls will stay the same
Any fool can see that you’re still mi Santiago
Hierbabuena, manzanilla, cinco CUC, maní
Sunglasses, sonrisa, bahía
I forget who I’m supposed to be
I laugh ’til I cry
We buy another beer
From the tined on the corner
where he stopped and sang Van Van in her left ear
Oh the pain
Sunshine after the rain
Yo me sentí tan perdida
Será que me encontré?
Será?
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11. |
I Can't See
03:35
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I Can’t See
Found peace
between the sheets
we shared
a brief release
a love affair
like all the rest
it seemed to me
I like you best but
I can’t see
see further
than the body that I lie beneath
see
see over
these four walls it’s getting hard to breathe
Persimmon skin deceives
you try to wait
resist
your hungry eyes
impatient
tear the flesh apart
and then the bitter
breaks your
Heart
keep beating
ain’t you heard it’s better to have loved
it’s art
you’re feeding
so go on and share a little blood
I was always chewing my bit
’til you took it out
Feels so good being rid of it
all of the metal in my mouth
Now I am free
I see
Found peace
between the sheets
we shared
a brief release
a love affair
impatient
tear the flesh apart
and then the bitter
breaks your
Heart
keep beating
ain’t you heard it’s better to have loved
it’s art
you’re feeding
so go on and share a little blood
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12. |
Palomita
01:32
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Holly Holden London, UK
Holly Holden is a singer, songwriter and bassist from London with a tropical soul. A long-term love affair with Latin America and many years spent music-making in the region have shaped her unique sunny, Spanglish soul-pop sound.
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