Song
Veintiuna Rosas Blancas
- Duration
- 4 min 2 sec
- Genre
- PopAdult Contemporary
- Language
- Spanish
- Album
- Included in the release "Veintiuna Rosas Blancas"
Song notes
Setting someone else's lyrics to music is delicate enough; doing it when those lyrics are about their sister is more so. I spent most of the process taking things away: every time the music got ahead of what Gemma was saying, I pulled it back a step.
I don't sing on this one — Gemma does, and it mattered that you could tell, not as a technical detail but because the person singing is the person who lost someone. I wanted a little tremor to come through, not a flawless take; in a song like this, being in tune matters less than being true.
The roses feel like the heart of it to me — a small, concrete gesture, counting flowers, for something no number can hold. I didn't reach for one of those consoling endings that tie it all up; the song stays with the gesture, which is the only honest thing you can offer. I'm grateful I got to be part of it, and I'm well aware that if it moves anyone, that's down to her.
I don't sing on this one — Gemma does, and it mattered that you could tell, not as a technical detail but because the person singing is the person who lost someone. I wanted a little tremor to come through, not a flawless take; in a song like this, being in tune matters less than being true.
The roses feel like the heart of it to me — a small, concrete gesture, counting flowers, for something no number can hold. I didn't reach for one of those consoling endings that tie it all up; the song stays with the gesture, which is the only honest thing you can offer. I'm grateful I got to be part of it, and I'm well aware that if it moves anyone, that's down to her.
Lyrics
Llegaste como un susurro, tan breve, tan fugaz
La vida apenas te tocó y ya te quiso llevar
Cada pétalo que cae, es un suspiro de amor
Veintiuna rosas blancas, un jardín que se marchitó
Veintiuna rosas blancas, por cada año que no viviste
Un perfume eterno, en el aire persiste
Tu luz no se apagó, aunque el tiempo te llevó
Mi ángel, mi hermana, en mi corazón quedó
Mmm-mmm-mmm
Tu risa nunca sonó, pero el silencio habló
De una vida que soñaba, aunque nunca despertó
Tus alas invisibles, siempre nos abrazarán
En cada rosa blanca, tu memoria vivirá
Cada pétalo que cae, es un suspiro de amor
Veintiuna rosas blancas, un jardín que se marchitó
Veintiuna rosas blancas, por cada año que no viviste
Un perfume eterno, en el aire persiste
Tu luz no se apagó, aunque el tiempo te llevó
Mi ángel, mi hermana, en mi corazón quedó
El viento lleva tu esencia, al cielo donde estás
Y en cada flor que nace, sé que volverás
Veintiuna rosas blancas, por cada año que no viviste
Un perfume eterno, en el aire persiste
Tu luz no se apagó, aunque el tiempo te llevó
Mi ángel, mi hermana, en mi corazón quedó
Mmm-mmm-mmm
Credits
- Main artist:
- Gemma Isasi , Phoenix Vega
- Composed by:
- Franccisco Javier Paños Madrona , Maria Gemma Isasi Cuesta
- Lyrics by:
- Maria Gemma Isasi Cuesta
- Produced by:
- Franccisco Javier Paños Madrona
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