Lyrics
Son las nueve y diez en el Café Federal.
Pide dos americanos, como un acto ritual.
Desdobla el suplemento cultural con la izquierda,
mientras el vapor dibuja una frontera incierta.
[Chorus]
Dos cafés para una sola sombra.
Un contrafuerte contra la memoria.
Un andamio frágil pa' que el día no se rompa.
[Verse 2]
El del turno de mañana ya no necesita hablar.
"¿Lo de siempre?", y él asiente, sin mirar.
Siente el frío del mármol bajo el antebrazo.
La segunda taza es un ancla, un punto y trazo.
[Bridge]
Desde mi mesa veo la fisura en su fachada,
el croquis fantasma de una vida desahuciada.
[Instrumental]
[Chorus]
Dos cafés para una sola sombra.
Un contrafuerte contra la memoria.
Un andamio frágil pa' que el día no se rompa.
[Outro]
Se va. Y el polvo se dibuja, lento,
en la porcelana intacta de su monumento.
About Mateo Umbral
Mateo Umbral was studying to be a literary scholar at the Complutense University of Madrid when he dropped out in his final year, deciding he'd rather write songs than academic papers. He now pays his rent working in a dusty archival bookstore and spends his nights walking the quiet streets of his Malasaña neighborhood. His atmospheric indie-rock, written on his mother's old guitar, captures the…
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