The song is about the longing of a person who stares south with a wet face and a tight chest, waiting with his eyes fixed on the sea, trying to remember what his life was like before. He is a person who has gone through a lot of pain in his life.
VOICE 1: As dusk falls, as you climb to the attic, chest tight and face wet, you turn to me and stay there, despite yourself, sitting like that alone, looking south. Seagulls fly in the wake of the color fever, clouds of sadness, longing, and splendor fall upon you, and you stay there doing nothing to live, just looking south, waiting for a sign that will take a thousand years or more to arrive, CHORUS: Nobody knows. VOICE 1: It's that there's still so much pain in you that you can't even return to me, CHORUS: It's that there's still so much pain in you that you can't even return to me. The salmon swim upriver and without shame, while the drizzle hides their splendor, the weight of all this time falls upon you, that you've been there alone, looking south, your eyes fixed on the sea, trying to remember how it was before, perhaps, nobody knows, nobody. CHORUS: And it's that there's still so much pain in you that you can't even return to me. VOICE 2: He won’t come back, he won’t come back, he won’t come back. VOICE 1: And there is so much pain CHORUS: still left in you that you can’t even come back to me. VOICE 1: So much pain, so much pain, and there is so much, so much pain, still left in you VOICE 2: There is still left in you, that you can’t VOICE 1: Think of me VOICE 2: Think of me.
VOZ 1: Cayendo la tarde
mientras subes al desván
apretado el pecho y la cara mojada
te vuelves hacia mí
y te quedas ahí, a tu pesar sentada así
solo mirando al sur.
Vuelan las gaviotas tras la fiebre del color,
nubes de tristeza, añoranza y resplandor
caen sobre ti
y te quedas ahí sin hacer nada por vivir
solo mirando al sur,
esperando una señal que tardará en llegar
unos mil años o más,
CORO: Nadie sabe.
VOZ 1: Es que tanto dolor
aún queda en ti
que ya no puedes ni siquiera
volver a mí,
CORO: Es que tanto dolor
aún queda en ti
que ya no puedes
ni siquiera volver a mí.
Nadan los salmones río arriba y sin pudor,
mientras la llovizna disimula su esplendor,
cae sobre tí
el peso de todo este tiempo que has estado ahí
solo mirando al sur
con la vista fija al mar tratando de recordar
como era antes, quizás,
nadie sabe,
nadie.
CORO: Y es que tanto dolor
aún queda en ti
que ya no puedes ni siquiera
volver a mí.
VOZ 2: Ya no vuelve, ya no vuelve, ya no vuelve.
VOZ 1: Y es que tanto dolor
CORO: aún queda en ti
que ya no puedes ni siquiera
volver a mí.
VOZ 1: Tanto dolor, tanto dolor,
y es que tanto,
tanto dolor,
aún queda en ti
VOZ 2: Aún queda en ti,
que ya no puedes
VOZ 1: Pensar en mí
VOZ 2: Pensar en mí.