Lyrics
(Voicemail beep sound effect)
Mamá, son las tres y cuarto en la cocina.
El barro de La Roda huele a tierra mojada y a ruina.
Se le ha vuelto a caer la cabeza al búho.
Te juro que me mira con un ojo, el único que le dura.
(short laugh)
Como un zorro tuerto esperando la luna.
[Chorus]
(Second, warmer vocalist enters)
Hay bestias que no cazan a mediodía,
que tienen en los párpados la herida.
Y buscan en lo oscuro su única homilía.
[Verse 2]
Perdona que te llame, estarás ya con el quinto sueño.
Es que tus manos cosen un vestido y le dan dueño.
Las mías solo aprietan este polvo que no abriga.
Tú siempre dices que "las manos quietas son nido de hormigas".
Y estas, de tanto moverse, no han hecho más que migas.
[Bridge]
(Layered harmonies from both vocalists)
Quizá no es una estatua, mamá, es una trampa.
Una lechuza ciega para cazar el alba.
[Outro]
Bueno. Ya te dejo.
Dale un beso al geranio de mi parte.
(Click sound of hanging up)
About Clara Azafrán
Clara Azafrán learned to write songs by watching her mother, a seamstress in Albacete, work her fingers to the bone. Her music, built around a nylon-string guitar and a voice of resilient melancholy, is for her mother and for all the women whose strength holds the world together. She still lives two streets away from her childhood home, writing about the tension between the pull of love and the…
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