By Mike Sain't Louis ·
La noche no es para mí and two in the morning
It's past two. The alcohol is already running through the blood, the lights have changed the look of everything and yet, deep down, nothing is different. That's how lucid these lyrics are, portraying the night from inside someone who never quite fits into it.
What hooks me is the contradiction. The protagonist spends the day waiting for the night «como el que espera su final» ("like someone waiting for their end"), looking for any excuse, some leitmotiv, to shake off boredom and loneliness in one go. And when it finally arrives, he finds that the night isn't for him either (the title means "The Night Isn't for Me"). He goes out anyway, fulfilling the ritual. Looks again for someone to spend it with. Falls back into the confusion of no longer knowing what's right and what's wrong.
A chorus that repeats like a hangover
The chorus is almost a mantra: the title phrase and, after it, that repeated «no para mí» ("not for me") that sounds like denial but also like a plea. Towards the end it stretches, breaks into several noes in a row, and it has something of someone saying it to themselves in front of the mirror in a bar toilet, trying to convince themselves.
There's a darker part, when the darkness takes over the mind and it becomes unbearable. There the song stops being a portrait of party customs and becomes something more serious: the night as a refuge that doesn't really protect, as a place you go back to because you don't know where else to go.
And the lyrics end as they began, with the same lines as the start. It's a circle. Another day back and forth, another wait, another endless night. I think it's the most honest way to tell it, because that's how these routines work: they don't end, they restart.
It's for anyone who has ever found themselves in a club at three in the morning wondering what they're doing there. For listening to on the way home, in the first light of day, and maybe for deciding that next Saturday you'll stay on the sofa.
The full lyrics are further down. Listen on Spotify
Lyrics · LA NOCHE NO ES PARA MÍ
Ya no sé qué está bien o está malUna total confusiónEsperando la nocheComo el que espera su finalTodo el día de aquí para alláBusco algún "leitmotiv"Para saciar de golpeAburrimiento y soledadLa noche no es para míNo para míLa noche no es para míNo para míEl reloj pasa ya de las 2:00Todo a mi alrededorSe vuelve diferenteAunque en el fondo sea igualEntre lo incierto y la realidadNoto correr el alcoholPor mi sangre efervescenteCumpliendo siempre el ritualLa noche no es para míNo para míLa noche no es para míNo para míLa oscuridad crece aún más y másY las tinieblas se han apoderado de mi menteY no lo puedo soportarY ya no sé qué está bien o está malBusco con desesperaciónCon quién pasar la nocheOtra noche sin finalLa noche no es para míNo para míLa noche no es para míNo para míLa noche no es para míNo para míLa noche no es para míNo para mí (no para mí)La noche no es para míNo, no, no para míNo para mí
Ya no sé qué está bien o está malUna total confusiónEsperando la nocheComo el que espera su finalTodo el día de aquí para alláBusco algún "leitmotiv"Para saciar de golpeAburrimiento y soledad
Lyrics as published with the official music video, on the MIKE SAIN'T LOUIS label.