| Café Tacuba – La Muerte Chiquita Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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For my point of view, this song is about a man wishing to have an orgasm, with a highly seductive and enigmatic woman in town. La muerte chiquita (for those still wondering) comes from the french "La petit mort". However, "chiquita" is used for it is a more popular word in reference of something small instead of "pequeña" which would be the correct translation. Because of the use of a 3/4 compass and the music arrangement using marimba, it could be determined this man lives in the coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, perhaps in Oaxaca or Chiapas. First verse tells us this man is asking a woman to give him the pleasure of being with her, sexually speaking. Perhaps she is new to him because he doubts about getting what he wants with her, but still he hopes to succeed. Second verse uses metaphors to describe this woman by what the man has heard about her: She has some strong temperament as the sea when high tide occurs. Everybody notices it as it reference this part by saying its an essence more than a fact. Her lips are dark and appetizing like a Tamarind fruit, but as the Tamarind flavor is between sweet and sour depending on how you eat it, it would mean she can be truly lovely or totally rude. Her eyelashes are long and abundant as palm trees but this only enhances her eyes, which with her eyebrows, produces a astonishing look on her. Thats why every time she blinks he becomes sort of hypnotized. However, although he is almost falling in love with her, he's been told she had a destructive relationship in the past and she still can't recover from it, being totally wounded inside and thus carrying her negativeness everywhere she goes. Third verse mutes the beat section and the jarana which have been playing during the song, revealing a kind of marimba solo. During this part (as in the first verse, although here he is more determined) he tells her in a macho way to get laid together, but just in time he switches to a more kind mode by telling her he pray to god requesting being with her for even just a second of his life. Fourth verse: he switches back to the macho mode as a way to impress her and cure her wounds by admitting his vengeance to her last relationship would be sweet. He even would kill this man with a machete. Thus admitting also he has fallen in love with her. In the last verse the man is determined to assassinate her ex relationship. By doing so, the woman will be cured, she will no longer suffer from sadness. That's why he urges her to get laid. He could die at the end and thus, never had the pleasure of being with her, again, sexually speaking. |
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