Release
Madre
- Release date
- 04/05/2025
- Type
- Single
- Duration
- 4 min 21 sec
- Genre
- PopAdult Contemporary
- Language
- Spanish
About this release
Writing a song about your mother is harder than it looks. The ground is full of clichés and it is easy to end up saying what every Mother's Day card says. I wanted the opposite: to go down to the small detail, to the things only she does.
That is why the lyrics go to gestures and not speeches. Hands that put the morning in order, a laugh that straightens a crooked day, the calm that teaches without giving lessons. There is gratitude, and above all the idea that a good part of what I am is borrowed from her. That is not given back. It is worn.
It is not a farewell song. I wrote it from the present, to say things while they can still be said face to face. If there is some melancholy in it, it is realising that the person who once held you up whole now says, playing it down, that she forgets things. And promising yourself, inside, that you will remember for both of you.
That is why the lyrics go to gestures and not speeches. Hands that put the morning in order, a laugh that straightens a crooked day, the calm that teaches without giving lessons. There is gratitude, and above all the idea that a good part of what I am is borrowed from her. That is not given back. It is worn.
It is not a farewell song. I wrote it from the present, to say things while they can still be said face to face. If there is some melancholy in it, it is realising that the person who once held you up whole now says, playing it down, that she forgets things. And promising yourself, inside, that you will remember for both of you.
Song notes
With this one I had to fight myself not to go too sweet: songs about mothers drag a lot of sugar with them. I made myself stay in the domestic, in what you see up close: jars, threads, silences. There is one line that holds the whole song: she says she forgets things and I answer that I will remember anyway.
Lyrics
Entra tu risa y perfuma la estancia
Luz que levanta mi ánimo vital
Tus manos esculpen mañanas brillantes
Cada gesto pronuncia tu amor
Cuando el ruido del mundo intenta silenciarme
Tu nombre refuerza mi valor
Madre, gracias por prestarme la sangre
Por lanzarme al sueño de existir
Sea cual sea el mapa que el tiempo me trace
Tú quedas escrita en mi porvenir
Guardas mi risa en frascos de cristal
Para poder romperlos y que vuelva a recordar
Tejes coraje con hilo de calma
En tus silencios aprendo a volar
Hoy llevo tu risa cosida a mi piel
Y un "todo es posible" ardiendo en mi voz
Madre, gracias por prestarme la sangre
Por lanzarme al sueño de existir
Sea cual sea el mapa que el tiempo me trace
Tú quedas escrita en mi porvenir
Bordas el viento con hilos de memorias
Dejas vibrar el eco de risas compartidas
Una nota ausente añora su timbre
Y tu voz la trae de vuelta en melodía
Y si el futuro reclama mis pasos
Tu risa será mi orientación
Aunque digas que olvidas las cosas
Yo nunca te dejaré de recordar
Si me pierdo entre ruidos de hierro y de prisa
Invocaré tu calma y volveré a soñar
Cuando el silencio reclame mi senda
Tu eco despierta mi canción
Madre, gracias por prestarme la sangre
Por lanzarme al sueño de existir
Sea cual sea el mapa que el tiempo me trace
Tú quedas escrita en mi porvenir
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Track list
Credits
- Main artist:
- Phoenix Vega
- Composed by:
- Francisco Javier Paños Madrona (opens in a new window)
- Produced by:
- Francisco Javier Paños Madrona (opens in a new window)
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