Amaia: Tiny Desk Concert

There are many people, few real ones.

Some want me, others ignore me.

C'est la vie — Maybe something makes them distance themselves from me.

Being alone wouldn't be a drama.

I have my tricks, I have my flaws, and like everyone, I am the weirdest, what can I say?

Deep down I don't know that much about myself.

But one thing is clear: In this life, everything comes and goes, And then nothing is that big of a deal.

And when the world is ending, I will watch it with a drink in hand.

In this life, everything comes and goes, and then nothing is a big deal.

And when the world is ending, I will watch it with a drink in hand.

My father says, “Be very careful.” The night, the bathrooms, the tattooed boys.

But I, who lacks street smarts, have good intuition.

And besides, I love the drama.

In this life, everything comes and goes, and then nothing is a big deal.

And when the world is ending, I will watch it while having a drink.

In this life, everything comes and goes, and then nothing is a big deal.

And when the world is about to end, I will watch it while having a drink.

In this life, everything comes and goes, and then nothing is a big deal.

And when the world is about to end, I will watch it while having a drink.

You make me walk two meters off the ground. Always in my head, even if you are very far away.

I think of you so much just to see you in my dreams, I don't know how to do it. I fall from above, I spin in a spiral.

A nightmare. This was not the plan.

But it's my head, I can anticipate, that you will be at the bottom, in case I fall.

We walk by the sea. We love each other madly.

I give you a city, Even the moon is jealous.

This is ending now, I am going to wake up.

I forgot that this is not real.

When I open my eyes, you will disappear.

But here one second can be eternity.

Yes, La Tarara. No, La Tarara girl, is my dance.

La Tarara, yes, La Tarara, no, La Tarara, girl, is my dance.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. I am Amaia.

I'm from Pamplona from Spain, and it's a pleasure to be here.

Thank you, NPR, and thank you, Tiny Desk. Sorry, I'm a bit nervous and my English is regular, but I'm going to try. Thank you.

The next song is a mashup from between...

Sorry. See? I'm already starting to — It's a mashup between "Zorongo Gitano" by Lorca and "Rumores de la Caleta" by Albéniz I hope you like it. Thank you.

Olé, beautiful.

My caring hands are embroidering a cape for you, with a trim of wallflowers, and with a capelet of water.

The moon is a small well.

The flowers are worth nothing.

What matters are your arms when they embrace me at night.

At night I go out to the countryside and cry my eyes out.

Thinking about how much I love you, and that you don't love me at all.

The moon is a small well.

Flowers are worth nothing.

What matters are your arms when they hold me at night.

24 hours a day, 24 hours it has.

If it had 27, I would love you three more hours.

The moon is a small well. Flowers are worth nothing.

What matters are your arms when they hold me at night.

I woke up sad, wanting to cry.

The nest is empty. All three are already gone.

I hear the echo of your laugh in the corners of the house.

You left so soon. How could this happen? I miss your messy table.

The girl left; she won't come back.

When the world is heavy and the pain bothers you, I'll be waiting here to take care of you, my love.

And when you don't write or call me, it pierces my heart.

And I can see it, I know you are growing, I don't want to overwhelm you.

When the world is heavy and the pain bothers you, I'll be waiting here to take care of you, my love.

And when you don't write to me nor do you call, it pierces my heart.

And you left and I didn't realize it, I didn't turn off the lights.

I'm still waking up, and what do I know?

I don't know what I responded. And I didn't even take off my makeup. My clothes smell like smoke and fernet.

Everything is spinning, I lose gravity.

I look for you in the crowd, knowing that you're not there.

I feel my pupils about to burst, I don't know if it's from the sorrow, or maybe I just want to dance, I just want to dance.

Thank you.

The best pass ever. Thank you very much.

This is the last song.

Yeah, yeah. This flew by, it's crazy.

But anyway, I've also, well- I have said later, Sorry about my English because when I'm nervous it's more — how do you say it? Worse. Fuck. But this is the last song.

Thank you, NPR. Thank you, Tiny Desk.

Thank you, all of you. You are beautiful.

You have been a really, really good audience.

Thank you.

And the last song is called "Yamaguchi."

That is a park from my country Pamplona.

And I'm going to explain in Spanish.

Of what's — how was it? What it's about. Yamaguchi is a city, I mean. Well, yes, it's a city.

It's a park in Pamplona, which is my city, and it's also a city in Japan.

So Yamaguchi and Pamplona are sister cities.

So in Pamplona there is a park called Yamaguchi, where I, well, for example, had my first kiss, my first park hangs with friends. And in Yamaguchi the city there is a park — a square called Pamplona.

So this song talks a bit about that parallel.

And I like to think that in the city Yamaguchi there is also a girl who also experienced those things, but in the Pamplona park.

And that is what this song is about. Thank you very much, I hope you like it and thank you again.

Bravo. Viva! Ole!

The pitch, please? OK.

There is a park in my Pamplona that I want to remember.

I bloomed alongside the cherry trees of that beautiful place.

Of that beautiful place, I will always keep the kisses, the first ones in my life, that a boy wanted to give me.

There is a park in my Pamplona that I want to remember.

In Yamaguchi park, I should have stayed.

I wonder if there are any in Japan.

I saw them at the Festival San Juan.

With the cherry blossoms in bloom, at the San Juan festival, I wonder if in Japan, a little girl cries.

In the park of Pamplona, in the city of Yamaguchi.

There is a park in my Pamplona that I want to remember.

In Yamaguchi park, I should have stayed.

Thank you. Thank you.