The song speaks from illusion and innocence. How over time circumstances and experiences shape our character and reality.
It is a poem made into a song, difficult even to interpret in the native language.
There are different versions. The original by the great Joaquín Sabina who wrote for Ana Belén and later interpreted himself. I have chosen this one because it is, in my opinion, the current and best interpreted.
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La canción habla desde la ilusión y la inocencia. Cómo al paso del tiempo las circunstancias y las vivencias van formando nuestro carácter y realidad.
Es un poema hecho canción, difícil incluso de interpretar en el idioma nativo.
Existen diferentes versiones. La original del gran Joaquín Sabina que escribió para Ana Belén y luego interpretó él mismo. He elegido esta por ser, a mi juicio la mejor interpretada y actual.

1-. Indian summer, warm spell in November in the northern hemisphere.
2-. The traveler, despite knowing love in Paris, is again attracted to Amsterdam, also title of the song by Jacques Brel, letting himself be carried away by his naivety.
3-. Dragged again, this time to New York. The rhythm of the big city eclipses the simple, the small, the quotidian...
4-. In a multicultural city, in this case, a Spanish stands out.
5-. According to the lyrics, in a capitalist society, values are secondary to money, which is what governs the law.
6-. It graphically shows the hard journey when principles are put to the test with reality, when there is a conflict between them.
7-. Always according to the lyrics, the wises aware of reality do not face it but rather avoid confronting it.
8-. One more battle shown between morality and law. Morality does not always coincide with legality, unfortunately.
9-. In Spanish we would say "gills" talking about courage, gut... A play on words with "city fish", all people who swim within a city, small and insignificant in an ocean.
10-. Small fish and/or fish of little commercial value that get caught in the nets. In the song he would be the one who is dragged by society losing everything, even his value.
11-. The Golden was a shampoo brand in several countries and also the search for the golden land in the US. / Everything is typified and summarized only to symbols.
12-. About the city of Comala, Mexico in the books of the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo.
13-. The end of the trip. The same woman who combed her hair like a boy and today is already a newlywed.

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