This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Hermanita ven conmigo (x2),
Hay aviones cada hora,
Isla del encanto,
Me voy! (x3)
Donde no hay sufrimiento (x2),
Me vieron pasar por la calle,
Isla del encanto,
Me voy! (x3)
Nuestro propio animal canta a la gente pa'gratis ,
Hey babe what are we doing here? .
Laaaaa,loooh,patria.
Isla del encanto,
Me voy! (x3)
Translation
Little sister come with me,
There are planes each hour,
Island of the enchantment,
I'm leaving!
Where there is no suffering,
They saw me pass by the street,
Island of the enchantment,
I'm leaving!
Our own animal sings for free for the people,
Hey babe what are we doing here?
Laaa loooh,fatherland.
Island of the enchantment,
I'm leaving!
Hay aviones cada hora,
Isla del encanto,
Me voy! (x3)
Donde no hay sufrimiento (x2),
Me vieron pasar por la calle,
Isla del encanto,
Me voy! (x3)
Nuestro propio animal canta a la gente pa'gratis ,
Hey babe what are we doing here? .
Laaaaa,loooh,patria.
Isla del encanto,
Me voy! (x3)
Translation
Little sister come with me,
There are planes each hour,
Island of the enchantment,
I'm leaving!
Where there is no suffering,
They saw me pass by the street,
Island of the enchantment,
I'm leaving!
Our own animal sings for free for the people,
Hey babe what are we doing here?
Laaa loooh,fatherland.
Island of the enchantment,
I'm leaving!
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Frank Black was in San Juan, Puerto Rico for a while and that experience surfaced in a lot of his songs. This song is definitely about Puerto Rico. In fact, I was in San Juan last week, and was amused to see that on all the license plates was "Isla del encanto" I was like, hey! That's a Pixies song! And my friends had no idea of course. But a lot of Surfer Rosa comes from Frank's time in PR, as well in other songs. Crackity Jones is about his roommate.
i love when they sing in spanish. when i heard this song i actually started paying attention in spanish class. Es Verdad!
laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! looooooooooooooooooooooooo! Patria. real neato
Ha! I hear this scream in my head when I close my eyes to go to bed. Absolutely my favorite part of any pixies song.
Hmm. I just got back from Vieques...also known as the Island of Enchantment. And I do believe that Frank Black spent a bunch of time in Puerto Rico.
BTW, Vieques is a very nice place. Get there before the hotels move in.
so fantastically bizarre!
Isla de Encanta is simply Black's ode to Puerto Rico where he spent sometime overtime over there during college. No doubt did that have a huge influence on him. It is no secret that Black Francis has a love for the beach life "I am the beach goer but there is no beach".To go from U-Mass (not that great of surfing up there) to talking about his island of enchantment where there is no suffering. He definetly had a good time over there... except the crazy gay roommate
Gotta give it up for Frank Black--he certainly speaks uncannily fluent Spanish for a guy who took a Spanish class while at UMass that sponsored his trip to Puerto Rico--a 6-m0nth sojourn, tops... All this from yours truly, who as a Navy Brat, lived in Spain for 3 yrs. when my dad was stationed at the sub base in Rota (a town in the province of Cadiz, in the southern region of Andalucia an hour away from the Rock of Gibraltar (sp?) ) then took 3 yrs. of High School Spanish. Ay ay ay!!
dont do spanish, but german. so i have no idea what it means. buuuttt, was the first song that i loved. and cause of this, i thought the pixies were from Californiaa....wrong. such a crazy song, infectious happiness
The translation:
Little sister, come with me Little sister, come with me there are planes (flights) every hour
Island of Enchantment I´m leaving, I´m leaving, I´m leaving
Where it is not suffering Where it is not suffering They saw me passing by the street
Island of Enchantment I´m leaving, I´m leaving, I´m leaving
Our own animal sings at the people for free Hey babe what are we doing here?.
La Lo Native country
Island of Enchantment I´m leaving, I´m leaving, I´m leaving
"Native country" jajaja , why needs to talk about native countryness?