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Micah Sommersmith
ChupacabraNur Ein XV
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Chupacabra
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Entry from Chupacabra in Nur Ein XV.

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Chupacabra
Micah Sommersmith

Lyrics in Spanish - English translations in italics every two lines

Me gritaste anoche con palabras de enojo
Hoy solito en el coche, pienso en nosotros
* You shouted at me last night with words of anger
Today, alone in the car, I think about us*
En las noticias, el cuerpo de otro cabrón
Se encuentra en un campo sin sangre
On the news, the body of another goat [also: asshole]
Has been found in a field with no blood
En su cuello, dos hoyos son marcas de algún
Tipo horrible de hambre
* In its neck, two holes are the marks of some
Horrible kind of hunger*
Y si ese cabrón fuera yo, no habría peleado
Me imagino que dio la bienvenida a la bestia ahí a su lado
* If I were that goat, I wouldn’t have struggled
I imagine it welcomed that beast there at its side*

Ai, ai ai ai mi amor, tu mordida
Me vale más, mucho más que mi propia vida.
*Oh my love, your bite
Is worth much more to me than my own life.*
Mejor que me muerdas y muera por tí,
Que siga sufriendo solito así.
Better that you bite me and I die for you [also: because of you]
Than that I continue suffering alone like this.
Si tú necesitas mi sangre, dime la palabra;
No soy nada más que ganado; sé mi chupacabra.
*If you need my blood, give me the word;
I’m nothing but livestock; be my chupacabra.*

Me hieres, cariño; no es por accidente
Me tratas de niño, me perturbas la mente
*You wound me, darling, and not by accident
You treat me like a child, you mess with my mind*
Pero así como un mundo de ciencia y razón
Se ha caído al chupacabrismo
*But just as a world of science and reason
Has fallen to chupacabra-ism*
Me caigo, sirena, al son de tu canción,
Aunque me duelo a mí mismo
*I fall, siren, to the sweet sound of your song,
Even though I wound myself*
Estoy vinculado a tí, como por cadenas
Mientras te quedas cerca de mí, me drenas las venas, me llenas de penas
*I’m linked to you as if by chains
While you’re close to me, you drain my veins, you fill me with sorrow*

Ai, ai ai ai mi amor, tu mordida
Me vale más, mucho más que mi propia vida.
*Oh my love, your bite
Is worth much more to me than my own life.*
Mejor que me muerdas y muera por tí,
Que siga sufriendo solito así.
Better that you bite me and I die for you [also: because of you]
Than that I continue suffering alone like this.
Si tú necesitas mi sangre, dime la palabra;
No soy nada más que ganado; sé mi chupacabra.
*If you need my blood, give me the word;
I’m nothing but livestock; be my chupacabra.*

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This is the only song in the batch of Spanish-language songs that felt to me like it was really taking advantage of the language and not just using it as set dressing. I loved these lyrics--lots of lurid emotion and desperation in those words, and they flow naturally. I really like the first verse, and the comparison of belief in the chupacabra to the narrator’s irrational love is really wonderfully done. The guitar playing is nice, I love those flamenco strums, and the two instruments work really well together. Musically, I’m not sure this would stand out to me in a field of similar songs--no really memorable melodic hooks for me--but it definitely does what it set out to do, genre-wise.

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