Duende

This is, in my opinion, the funniest song, ever. It's got this boppity, peppy music with excessively pessimistic lyrics. If I hadn't looked up the lyrics, I would have thought, oh, what a sweet, fun song. But then I see it's about hell and blood and demons and death, and it's breathtakingly hilarious. How could you not love: "Bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeak desolation In a beeeeam of sun boppa da ba a one two boppa da ba." Duende is the juxtaposition of the macabre and the saccharine, and the effect is scathingly clever. I'll never tire of it.

Just as reference, Duende means "dwarf" or "goblin" in Spanish.

anope, you should change your name to dope. how the HELL does this song sound happy, and funny? you, my friend are messed in the head, when i first heard this song, i didn't read the lyrics to it, but it sent shivers down my spine anyhow, its such a dazzlingly chilling song.

what does this song mean anyways? i'm not quite sure, anyone have any ideas?

Pure metaphor, or anything more concrete? Most obvious things that came to my mind were obsessively wishing for a lost lover to come back, or about drug addiction. Delerium has some straight metaphysical symbolism in a number of their songs though so who knows..

Duende is also a bodily response to expressive music (e.g. gives you chills, makes you smile or cry..). I would just like to input that listening to the song without first comprehending the lyrics would give one the feeling of happiness or uplifting, especially since the vocals sound almost dreamlike. Upon reading the actual lyrics, one might feel completely different as the words create an eerie aura and the voices now sound more haunting. To me, this song was created to evoke the emotions of the listener.

By the last line, "Cursed by my own mind (Your heart can't hear me)", I can think the song is about a mental disease and how the patient deal with it.