@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Enfermo llegue
Y para componerme ando de vago
No me des tu obedencia
Porque te enseño mi cuerpo de lobo
De donde la piel estuvo débil
Con una hambre que no me deje cantar
En mi vida
El oscuro me mantiene
Cuando yo te vi
En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre
Yo no me quedo, en mi vida
El oscuro me mantiene
Cuando yo te vi
En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre
Yo no me quedo
Y ya que caíste de este mundo
Cargo una navaja, Dios mío, para ti
¿Cuantas veces me mordiste?
¿Y cuantas veces yo me fui?
Ya no me estoy enamorado
Con tus mentiras
El infierno me duermo
Porqué el infierno es la unica verdad
En mi vida
El oscuro me mantiene
Cuando yo te vi
En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre
Yo no me quedo, en mi vida
El oscuro me mantiene
Cuando yo te vi
En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre
Yo no me quedo
Estrella de la mañana
Samael, te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Además me muero por ti
Estrella de la mañana
Samael, te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Además me muero por ti
Estrella de la mañana
Samael, te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Además me muero por ti
Estrella de la mañana
Samael, te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Además me muero por ti
Estrella de la mañana
Samael, te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Además me muero por ti
Y para componerme ando de vago
No me des tu obedencia
Porque te enseño mi cuerpo de lobo
De donde la piel estuvo débil
Con una hambre que no me deje cantar
En mi vida
El oscuro me mantiene
Cuando yo te vi
En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre
Yo no me quedo, en mi vida
El oscuro me mantiene
Cuando yo te vi
En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre
Yo no me quedo
Y ya que caíste de este mundo
Cargo una navaja, Dios mío, para ti
¿Cuantas veces me mordiste?
¿Y cuantas veces yo me fui?
Ya no me estoy enamorado
Con tus mentiras
El infierno me duermo
Porqué el infierno es la unica verdad
En mi vida
El oscuro me mantiene
Cuando yo te vi
En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre
Yo no me quedo, en mi vida
El oscuro me mantiene
Cuando yo te vi
En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre
Yo no me quedo
Estrella de la mañana
Samael, te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Además me muero por ti
Estrella de la mañana
Samael, te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Además me muero por ti
Estrella de la mañana
Samael, te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Además me muero por ti
Estrella de la mañana
Samael, te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Además me muero por ti
Estrella de la mañana
Samael, te persigo a ti
Y si me quedo sin alas
Además me muero por ti
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OK, I'm gonna help you all here. I have the CD booklet right next to me - so that we can get the exact lyrics - and since I'm from Argentina I'm gonna try to translate it as correct as possible...
First, to get annoying, the correct translation for "Magdalenan Asylums" actually is "Asilos Magdalenos", but I guess that's simply Cedric's Spanish, as we've could see on "L'via L'viaquez". Now, the lyrics:
1st VERSE:
Enfermo llege (wrongly written, is "llegué")
"Ill I arrived" is indeed the translation
Y para componerme and de vago (it's "ando" instead of "and")
Well, this may have a dozen translations... In Argentina, "vago" it's simply "lazy", while in other countries it may mean "bum". There's also the verb "vagar", to wander. My theory is that here, Cedric tried to say "And to get better ("componerme" = to recover) I wander around (to wander = vagar)"
No me des tu obedencia
Clear: Don't give me your obedience
Porque te enseño mi cuerpo de lodo
Clear again: Because I show you my body of mud. It's up to us to interpret the relation between this two "clear phrases". For those who know about TMV lyrics: is he menacing the person he's addressing to? ("don't give me your obedience.. if you do, I'll show you my body of mud!") or actually meaning other thing? (like "don't give your obedience just because I show my body of mud")
Donde el piel estubo debil (well, it's "la piel", and "estuvo débil")
Clear, one more time: Where the skin was weak
Con una hambre que no me deje cantar (it's "con un hambre")
With a hunger that doesn't let me sing - a hunger so strong that doesn't let him sing, to make it more clear
CHORUS
En me vida (it's "mi", not "me")
In my life
El oscuro me mantiene
Well, this could actually have two meanings, depending on the word "oscuro". If he meant "darkness", it's a writing mistake, since it should be "la oscuridad me mantiene"... But what if he meant "the dark one" (el oscuro)? Can that mean actually something? You know, "the dark one" may be Satan, or whatever.
The darkness/The dark one mantains me ("mantain" in the sense of "keeping me alive" is my guess)
Cuando yo te vi en la lluvia me prometiste tu sangre
Clear as water: When I saw you in the rain you promised me your blood
Yo no me quedo
I don't stay, I'm not staying. Cedric's getting better with Spanish, since he managed to tie this with "en mi vida", giving the possible meaning of "I don't stay in my life".
2nd VERSE:
Ya que calle de este mundo ("callé")
Well, it seems pretty clear: Since I silenced from this world. "Callé" ("I shut up, I made silence") is used in a pretty poetical way, possibly meaning "I died", "I no longer exist in this world". But this can also be a writing mistake, and he could actually mean "caí" (I fell). In such case the meaning would be pretty different. What do you think?
Cargo un navaja Dios mio para ti ("una navaja")
Clear, and I'll add some comas to make it clearer: I carry a knife, my God, for you. "Navaja" is some kind of pocketknife, but it can mean "knife" as well.
Cuantas veses me mordiste (it's "veces")
Clear: How many times did you bite me - meaning some how that there many times
Y cuantas veses yo me fui (same thing that previous verse)
Clear, again: And how many times did I leave ("me fui")
Ya no estoy enamorado con tus mentiras
I'm no longer in love with your lies
Pa el infierno me duermo
Well, here "Pa" may be the common use - in Latin American Spanish - of the word "para" (for). But Cedric may also had wanted to mean "en" (in). Anyway, a correct meaning would be: "In Hell I sleep"
Porque el infierno es la única verdad
Clear: Because Hell is the only truth
CHORUS
LAST VERSE
Estrella de la mañana
Morning Star
Samael te persigo a ti
Clear: Samael I chase you
Y si me quemo sin alas
I found this meaningful. "quemo", from the verb "quemar", means "to burn". The verse would "and if I burn without wings" - quite a strong image. It's in the booklet, and Cedric sings it rather clearly, so I don't think is "y si me quedo sin alas" ("And if I remain without wings")
Además me muero por ti
Well.. It would be "I also die for you". The use of the verb may be similar to "being impatient", "wishing something/someone severely", like in "God! I'd die to see TMV in concert!".
Well, that's it. As for the song, I find it really good, even that bizarre beginning (and sometimes I even dig that ending!)... I don't really get a great deal of the meanings, but in my opinion in might be the perspective of someone who is losing his/her faith, while recovering from some heavy suffering (maybe on "Meccamputechture", where "everybody stabs all the time"?) in some place far away (maybe the "Magdalenan Asylum" is a metaphor for a place far away - I even see it in the middle of a desert). Cedric even sings it like he's burdened, suffering... A great, great song, complete with Omar's kick ass guitar opening (I guess in this track it's his).
i bearly noticed the lyrics are wrong...
here are the correct spanish and english lyrics and translations
Spanish:
Enfermo llegue Y para componerme ando de vago No me des tu obedencia Porque te enseno mi cuerpo de lodo De donde la piel estuvo debil Con una hambre que no me deje cantar
En mi vida El oscuro me mantiene Cuando yo te vi En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre Yo no me quedo en mi vida
El oscuro me mantiene Cuando yo te vi En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre Yo no me quedo ...
Ya que caistes de este mundo Cargo la navaja, Dios mio, para ti Cuantas veces me mordistes Y cuantas veces yo me fui Ya no estoy enamorado Con tus mentiras El infierno me duermo Porque el infierno es la unica verdad En mi vida
El oscuro me mantiene Cuando yo te vi En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre Yo no me quedo en mi vida El oscuro me mantiene Cuando yo te vi En la lluvia me prometistes tu sangre Yo no me quedo ...
Estrella de la manana Samael, te persigo a ti Y si me quedo sin nada Ademas me muero por ti
Estrella de la manana Samael, te persigo a ti Y si me quedo sin nada Ademas me muero por ti
Estrella de la manana Samael, te persigo a ti Y si me quedo sin nada Ademas me muero por ti
(x2)
English:
I arrived sick And to feel better, I'm always in the streets Because I showed you my body of mud Of where the skin was weak With a hunger that won't let me sing
In my life The darkness maintains me When I saw you In the rain you promised me your blood I don't stay in my life
The darkness maintains me When I saw you In the rain you promised me your blood I don't stay ...
Now that you've fallen from this world Carried the blade, my God, for you How many times did you bite me? And how many times did I leave? I am no longer in love With your lies In hell I sleep Because hell is the only truth In my life
The darkness maintains me When I saw you In the rain you promised me your blood I don't stay in my life The darkness maintains me When I saw you In the rain you promised me your blood I don't stay ...
Morning star Samael, I follow you And if I stay with nothing I will die for you
Ok, I've seen almost all translations and they are not 100% correct. I know what I'm saying because I speak both languages. Here is the translation:
Sick I arrived, and to remake (meaning convalesce myself), I wander around (he/she become a wanderer). Don't give me your obedience, because I'll show you my body of mud where the skin was weak with a hunger that won't let me sing.
In my life... The dark one (the dark one, not the darkness. If it was the darkness it would be "la oscuridad" in spanish)maintains me. when I saw you in the rain, you promised me your blood. I won't stay. In my life... The dark one maintains me. when I saw you in the rain, you promised me your blood. I won't stay.
As you fell from this world, I carry a blade, my God, for you. How many times did you bite me? And how many times did I go? I am no longer in love with your lies. In Hell I sleep, because Hell is the only truth.
Morning star, Samael I follow you, and if I burn without wings, I also die for you.
As a dual speaker myself, I support your version all the way.<br /> <br /> For the meanings, I believe a little research always helps:<br /> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalene_asylum<br /> es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilo_de_las_Magdalenas<br /> <br /> The Magdalene Asylums were institutions where prostitutes where taken to be "cleansed" by penitence and hard labour. They originally started as a beneficence movement in Ireland, but they progressed becoming more and more similarly to slavery; reports of women dead trying to escape these places are not that scarce. Originally run by Irish State, on their spread they became Church-Run.<br /> <br /> With that as perspective, and as one with heavy conservative-Catholic background I can picture the lyrics as being the sing of one of those escaped women (I know that the lyrics are sung with male pronouns and verbal declinations, but then again, the spanish is not really perfect either, so bear a second with me):<br /> <br /> Sick I arrived, (as in: I was interned at the asylum on the asumption that I was sick, sick of sins)<br /> and to remake (meaning convalesce myself), I wander around (he/she become a wanderer). (She's gone back to prostitution, 'cause she hated the life at the asylum; to shook it off, she's "wandering" again)<br /> Don't give me your obedience, (This can be translated also as: "Don't get me started on your obedience" or even as is translated here, it can be thought as of "I don't want the state of obedience of yours", not meaning that god is obedient to her, but rather that she does not want the condition of obedience, the quality of obedience that was enforced inside the Asylums)<br /> because I'll show you my body of mud (a dirty, sinful body)<br /> where the skin was weak (again a bodily reference for prostitution)<br /> with a hunger that won't let me sing.<br /> <br /> In my life...<br /> The dark one (the dark one, not the darkness. If it was the darkness it would be "la oscuridad" in spanish)maintains me. (she prefers "the devil" that's associated with sin rather than the god showed to her in the asylum)<br /> when I saw you<br /> in the rain (Asylums started in Ireland, so, quite rainy), you promised me<br /> your blood. (When she saw the Asylum, she felt it was gonna be a good thing, to benefit her, to be a blessing as Christ's blood)<br /> I won't stay. (at the Asylum, and figuratively, at god's side)<br /> In my life...<br /> The dark one maintains me.<br /> when I saw you<br /> in the rain, you promised me<br /> your blood.<br /> I won't stay.<br /> <br /> As you fell from this world, (Hard to interpret. At the beggining I thought she was now speaking to Satan, who fell from that heavenly - rightful - obedience-bound world too... but the "I'm no loner in love" is clearly to god, so I propose that she's singing to god who also "fell to this world" (not a proper translation for "ya que caistes de este", it should be "ya que caistes a") as Jesus)<br /> I carry a blade, (she has a blade waiting for human-God (Jesus), to take revenge, that's why "a blade for you")<br /> my God, for you. <br /> How many times did you bite me? (how much damage did you inflict to me at the Asylum?)<br /> And how many times did I go? ("me fui" translates better as "I left": how many times did I try to escape from that terrible Asylum?)<br /> I am no longer in love<br /> with your lies. (I don't trust god as my savior anymore)<br /> In Hell I sleep,<br /> because Hell<br /> is the only truth. (straightforward)<br /> <br /> Morning star, Samael I follow you, and if I burn without wings, I also die for you.<br />
the acoustic guitar and the way cedric sings are amazing together, makes this song one of my favorites
Actually, I believe the second line in the last verse (the one that is repeated 5 times) is actually:
Samael te persigo a ti
I'd infer this considering the first line (Estrella de la manana) translates into "Morningstar" which is another name given to Satan or the Devil and "Samael" is also another name given to the Devil.
-Jonny
I would really appreciate for somebody to translate this gem, because right now I'm only connected by the music; I need to see if there's a lyrical connection as well.
I'm not staying in my life The dark mantains me When I saw you In the rain you promised me your blood I'm not staying
And now that you fell off this world I carry a knife My god For you How many times you bit me And how many times I left
And I am no longer in love With your lies In hell, I sleep Because hell is the only truth
In my life The dark mantains me When I saw you In the rain you promised me your blood
I'm not staying in my life The dark mantains me When I saw you In the rain you promised me your blood I'm not staying
Morning star Ismael I am pursuiting you And if I end living wingless even though I'm dying for you
That's the best I could do, I don't speak spanish 100%, so corrections are welcome, this song is hard to translate because it doesn't make much sense at first sight...well...hope this helps =)
Sick I arrived (can't translate this line) Don't give me your obedience Because I'll show you my wolf body Where the skin was weak With a hunger that don't let me sing
In my life The dark mantains me When I saw you In the rain you promised me your blood
I'm not staying in my life The dark mantains me When I saw you In the rain you promised me your blood I'm not staying
And now that you fell off this world I carry a knife My god For you How many times you bit me And how many times I left
And I am no longer in love With your lies In hell, I sleep Because hell is the only truth
In my life The dark mantains me When I saw you In the rain you promised me your blood
I'm not staying in my life The dark mantains me When I saw you In the rain you promised me your blood I'm not staying
Morning star Ismael I am pursuiting you And if I end living wingless even though I'm dying for you
sorry, it was incomplete this is the complete song
you guys are saints,thanx, TMV alone has made me wanna learn Espanol!<br /> ~Nick<br />
Sounds like some sort of pact with the devil idea here. I'm no deep TMV expert but it sounds like he is telling the devil he is going to kill himself and that he is going to hell.
"I'd infer this considering the first line (Estrella de la manana) translates into "Morningstar" which is another name given to Satan or the Devil and "Samael" is also another name given to the Devil.
-Jonny"
Samael is rarely used as reference to satan, hes listed int eh same sphere of demons and etc there were kicked out of heaven but not satan himself. and in hebrew literature hes refered to as either the prince of demons, or the angel of death. not satan.