100 phrases by Joaquín Sabina to understand his songs
Joaquin Sabina He is a Spanish singer-songwriter, born in Úbeda (Jaén) in 1949.
Without a doubt, he is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Spanish music and stands out, in addition to his broken voice and his unique style, for his lyrics full of feeling.
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Best phrases of Joaquín Sabina
Joaquín Sabina is a musician, but he perfectly could have been a street poet. In today's article, we have selected 100 phrases of his great songs. Enjoy them!
1. When the city paints its lips neon, you will get on my cardboard horse... they can steal your days from me, not your nights
A beautiful woman crossed Joaquín Sabina's path and left him speechless.
2. This goodbye does not make up a see you later, this never does not hide a hope, this ash does not play with fire, this blind man does not look back
Looking back can be a problem if we want to continue growing.
3. Don't be smart, don't invest in Christs, don't play dumb
Tricking her staff to get away with it ...
4. When at the end of the endings, she is not followed by an ellipsis
This is undoubtedly an "over".
5. She always had a very high forehead, a very long tongue and a very short skirt
A quote from Joaquín Sabina in reference to a very problematic woman.
6. Where is the song you made me when you were a poet? It ended so sad that I could never start it
The sadness of a breakup is painful. Extracted from the song "Barbie Superstar".
7. These lips that taste like goodbye, like vinegar in wounds, like a stationery handkerchief
Goodbye kisses invite sadness.
8. And life went on, like things that don't make much sense go on
Not all relationships end with a happy ending.
9. But tonight a prisoner releases freedom
A phrase by Sabina that invites reflection.
10. The worst thing about love is when it happens... The good thing about the years is that they heal wounds, the bad thing about kisses is that they create addiction
Heartbreak is, without a doubt, one of the most difficult experiences through which the human being can go.
11. There was a future in the hungry pupils of mature men
Anyone has seen older men desperate to win over a beautiful young woman.
12. Hang on to whoever loves you, don't die except for love ...
Unrequited love can be a devastating experience.
13. And I who had sworn to die without issue, as my father died
A phrase for free interpretation
14. Even if I keep dying for you, I'll go with the first one who loves me ...
Heartbreak can make us desperate and looking for love in the arms of anyone.
15. It depends on you and on me that between the two of us it remains yesterday night, today in the morning
A night full of passion that lasts an eternity.
16. Ambiguous hours that mix the drunkard and the early riser
The best and worst happens at night.
17. A kiss is just an assault and the bed is a boxing ring
Going from a kiss to bed is what we all seek with that person we love.
18. There are women who drag suitcases loaded with rain
The goodbye in a kiss hurts more than everything in this world.
19. Men cheat more than women; women better
Women are said to be smarter at infidelities.
20. And the blood galloping through my veins and a cloud of sand inside my heart, and this streak of love without appetite ...
The extract of a letter from a song by Sabina. Without a doubt, pure poetry.
21. Now that without knowing, we have known, loving each other, properly, without loving each other, still
A far-fetched date but with a lot of feeling.
22. Wherever the roads cross, where the sea cannot be conceived, where the fugitive always returns, let's say I'm talking about Madrid
Madrid is a beautiful city to get lost in.
23. Before you love me the way you love a cat, I'll leave with anyone who looks like you
When they tell you they love you but don't really do anything for you.
24. I don't like investing in chimeras, your hips have brought me here and not your heart
Sometimes we just feel passion for someone.
25. How little time lasts eternal life through the tunnel of your legs
A tunnel that more than one would like to go through.
26. The atrocious thing is not wanting to know who you are, past water, scorched earth
The past must be buried and left behind.
27. Wasting the bag and life was little by little giving up for lost
In the end. when it doesn't work, you have to let it go.
28. Often the most urgent lips, in no rush two kisses later
You may want to kiss her, but then you want to enjoy her.
29. I fall asleep at the funerals of my generation
A phrase by Sabina that invites you to think.
30. The wooden suit that I will release is not even planted, that the priest who will give me the last rites is not even an altar boy
A date full of irony.
31. I can get cheesy and say: that your lips taste the same to me, that the lips that I kiss in my dreams ...
Love makes us cheesy with the person we love.
32. Ladies of the night, who in the back seat of a car did not ask if you wanted them
Another phrase that could well be taken from some poetic verses.
33. It is not me, nor you, nor anyone else are the miserable fingers that wind my watch
The seconds and minutes depend on it.
34. I gave him my nights and my bread, my anguish, my laugh, in exchange for his kisses and his haste
People change when we are in love.
35. Worse for the sun, who gets into the cradle of the sea at seven o'clock to snore, while a server lifts her skirt to the moon
Nice words from Joaquín Sabina.
36. An unstable time is announced between the two, the storms appear in your eyes
There are women who are a tornado.
37. The water extinguishes the fire and the burning of the years
A quote that can be interpreted in different ways.
38. Don't get lost if I yell at you get lost
A funny and humorous words.
39. And what about the critic who indignantly accuses me of playing too much Russian roulette?
Sometimes we don't look at ourselves and blame others
40. Why invest in cans of silly soup? It's like varnishing the coffin itself
A phrase that has the meaning you want to give it.
41. A good reputation is convenient to drop at the foot of the bed, today you have a chance to show that you are a woman as well as a lady
You don't have to always be tough.
42. Who cares after death that one has his vices
Many enjoy their vices and use these phrases to deceive themselves.
43. Where do you think you're going, what do you think I am, don't look back, I'm gone
One eventually gets tired and leaves ...
44. The night you lost your fear of fear was so short that it still lasts
When you step forward and overcome your fears.
45. That dreams are true lies
Dreaming is free and has a lot of meaning.
46. It depends on you and on me that between the two of us it remains yesterday night, today in the morning
The magical nights will always be remembered.
47. This cowardly way of not saying no to us, this one with you, this one without you so bitter
It is not always easy to confess.
48. I am looking for an encounter that brightens my day and I find nothing but doors that deny what they hide
When you only think of seeking happiness, you rarely find it.
49. I'll call her tomorrow, today I was late, this cowardly way of not saying no to us
An excuse that affects yourself, a form of self-deception.
50. There are women who don't even tell the truth when they lie
Irony is part of this sentence.
51. You better learn to live on the dividing line from boredom to passion
Passion moves the world, it moves people.
52. I'm not addicted to opera divos; they cultivate the muscle of the vocal cords and seem to me more athletes than artists
A comparison between opera singers and sportsmen.
53. Weirder was that summer, when it didn't stop snowing ...
Humor is an essential part of this curious quote.
54. I never had more religion than a woman's body
His God are, and will be, women.
55. The good thing about years is that they heal wounds, the bad thing about kisses is that they create addiction
Kisses are addictive, especially those of that special person.
56. How difficult to try to escape unscathed from this magic in which we have been imprisoned
Prisoners of love in a prison that many want to be.
57. My plan is to age without dignity
A beautiful phrase by Joaquín Sabina, giving life a touch of humor.
58. When I'm good I'm good, when I'm bad I'm better
When you do what you want without thinking about what others think of you, you are happier.
59. There is no nostalgia worse than longing for what never ever happened
The only thing we can regret is not having done it.
60. Love is an epidemic that ends with time
Love has an expiration date if it is not cared for
61. He was an individual of those who are silent for not making noise, an assiduous loser of so many battles that oblivion wins
When you disagree, you better defend yourself.
62. Love is called the game where a pair of blind men play to hurt each other
Love is blind and can sometimes be harmful.
63. The kisses that I lost, for not knowing how to say: "I need you"
In love you have to be sincere, if not, we can repent
64. When death comes to visit me, let them take me to the south where I was born. There is no room for anyone here
A quote that talks about the end of days.
65. All I have is nothing I gave it to him
She gave him everything she had because she felt it.
66. When only these verses remain of her and me
Love ends and you have to accept it.
67. I no longer close the bars, nor do I do so many excesses, Love songs are getting sadder and sadder
There are people who prefer to go out to drink when they leave it with that person they love.
68. You who were a master in the difficult art of not getting wet in a shower
Sabina talks about those people who always come out of adversity with flying colors. From the song "Suicidal Drivers".
69. Tomorrow is the eve of the day after, past flowers at the wake
Tomorrow is a new dawn and we must take advantage of it.
70. Singing is shooting against oblivion, living without you is sleeping in the station
Forgetting about someone you love is not always easy.
71. You know better than I do that only the kisses that you haven't given, the lips of sin, penetrate down to the bones ...
The kisses of that person you love reach the bottom of your heart.
72. I can get dignified and say: Take my direction, when you get sick of cheap love for a while... call me
Bad experiences in love can make you realize what you have lost.
73. I prefer war with you, to winter without you
When you want to be with someone, even if it goes wrong, you prefer it to not seeing them.
74. In fatuous New York, the statue of liberty casts more shade than lemon trees
A quote about New York, the city of skyscrapers.
75. Recovering the names of things again, calling bread bread, wine calling wine, armpit... armpit, miserable fate. And call the one who kills, once a murderer
The things clear and the chocolate thick.
76. Do not close the window to the dawn that breaks the glass that now is the beginning of the end
Poetry in its purest form, A phrase to frame.
77. I'm not asking for forgiveness, for what? If she's going to forgive me, because she doesn't care anymore
When someone stops caring, it doesn't matter what you do.
78. This fish no longer dies from your mouth, this madman leaves with another madwoman, these eyes do not cry for you anymore
The same in other arms it is possible to find happiness.
79. They clothed themselves with the good sense of your and my delirium
A rhyme that makes a lot of sense.
80. I trade my wrinkles for your acne
Acne is a sign of youth, wrinkles of old age.
81. And the sun is a tear in an eye that does not know how to cry
The sun gives us life. Sabina uses it in this sentence.
82. In Comala I understood that to the place where you have been happy you should not try to return
Sometimes you have to get out of the comfort zone to continue growing.
83. Even the soles of my shoes miss you
When that person you love leaves, you see them everywhere.
84. For saying what I think, without thinking what I say, they gave me more than one kiss and more than one slap
Being sincere is not always well received by others.
85. That child who dreamed that he was writing no longer dreams, heart of Mary, don't leave me like this
Over time, illusions can fade.
86. That the mirrors do not give you the reason
Your own identity goes far beyond appearances.
87. That the truths do not have complexes
The truth exists beyond opinions.
88. The monarchy is a democratic deficit that we suffer by inheritance
One of Joaquín Sabina's phrases about politics.
89. I sing my loneliness because I have too many
To have company or not is not something that always depends on you, but the feeling that this produces can be regulated, for example, through the arts.
90. Whenever I confess I give myself absolution
Wallowing in guilt and regret brings no good
91. He was so poor that he had no more than money
Materialism can become a trap.
92. Death is just luck with a changed letter
A clever observation about death and how easily it can come.
93. What curse separates lovers who have not forgotten?
There are situations of separation that cannot be explained.
94. In love affairs the best always loses
Sometimes in the realm of love compassion and empathy do not bring good luck.
95. When I sleep without you, I dream of you
Dreams can be a space in which fantasies are offered as compensation.
96. How small is the light of the headlights of those who dream of freedom
Many idealists have no references to draw from.
97. Muses don't accept excuses
Imagination comes and goes, but it is up to us to take advantage of it.
98. At fifteen, the sane to tie cut off my wings
Social norms can limit a lot and unjustifiably.
99. Sex vices are not vices
Sabina questions the stigma and taboos that weigh on sexuality.
100. Your voodoo already pricks bone
Suffering can make us emotionally hardened.
