Song Meaning
The lyrics paint a stark, almost elemental picture of existence, where the narrator observes a world yearning for extremes. This isn't a gentle landscape; it's a place of "Desierto, la Selva," a primal duality. The narrator sees a deep dissatisfaction even in the natural world, with "Setiembre" (September), associated with "Rojos Helechales" (red ferns), lamenting its "materia" and wishing for a purer, colder state: "Slo Nieve, Inmensidad y Lobos" (Only Snow, Immensity, and Wolves).
The core tension lies in this pervasive sense of unfulfillment, a longing for absolute states that are unattainable. The sun "Suea con la pura luz" (dreams of pure light), suggesting even its brilliance is a striving, not an end. The night, conversely, "Aora los tiempos primordiales" (longs for primordial times), a desire for an even more fundamental, perhaps more absolute, darkness. This suggests a universal condition of wanting what one is not, a dissatisfaction with the present state.
The most striking element is how the narrator turns this observation inward, finding the same pattern in their own heart. The "deseos" (desires) are distilled into two potent, opposing concepts: "La palabra Siempre" (The word Always) and "La palabra Nunca" (The word Never). This isn't a nuanced spectrum of wants, but an embrace of absolutes, a yearning for permanence and an equally strong rejection of any possibility, mirroring the extreme desires seen in nature.
This lyrical construction is effective because it elevates personal longing to a cosmic scale. By linking the narrator's internal state to the elemental forces of nature, the lyrics create a sense of profound, almost existential dissatisfaction. The stark, contrasting imagery and the final reduction of desire to "Siempre" and "Nunca" leave the listener with a potent feeling of the human condition's inherent, and perhaps tragic, pursuit of the unattainable.
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