Amaia: Tiny Desk Concert

0:21 There are many people, few real ones.

0:24 Some want me, others ignore me.

0:27 C'est la vie— Maybe something makes them distance themselves from me.

0:31 Being alone wouldn't be a drama.

0:34 I have my tricks, I have my flaws,

0:38 and like everyone, I am the weirdest, what can I say?

0:41 Deep down I don't know that much about myself.

0:45 But one thing is clear: In this life, everything comes and goes,

0:53 And then nothing is that big of a deal.

0:57 And when the world is ending, I will watch it with a drink in hand.

1:04 In this life, everything comes and goes, and then nothing is a big deal.

1:11 And when the world is ending, I will watch it with a drink in hand.

1:30 My father says, “Be very careful.” The night, the bathrooms, the tattooed boys.

1:36 But I, who lacks street smarts, have good intuition.

1:40 And besides, I love the drama.

1:45 In this life, everything comes and goes, and then nothing is a big deal.

1:52 And when the world is ending, I will watch it while having a drink.

1:59 In this life, everything comes and goes, and then nothing is a big deal.

2:06 And when the world is about to end, I will watch it while having a drink.

2:14 In this life, everything comes and goes, and then nothing is a big deal.

2:21 And when the world is about to end, I will watch it while having a drink.

4:12 You make me walk two meters off the ground.

4:15 Always in my head, even if you are very far away.

4:19 I think of you so much just to see you in my dreams, I don't know how to do it.

4:26 I fall from above, I spin in a spiral.

4:31 A nightmare.

4:32 This was not the plan.

4:35 But it's my head, I can anticipate,

4:37 that you will be at the bottom, in case I fall.

4:50 We walk by the sea.

4:53 We love each other madly.

4:56 I give you a city, Even the moon is jealous.

5:11 This is ending now, I am going to wake up.

5:15 I forgot that this is not real.

5:19 When I open my eyes, you will disappear.

5:22 But here one second can be eternity.

5:56 Yes, La Tarara.

5:58 No, La Tarara girl, is my dance.

6:03 La Tarara, yes, La Tarara, no, La Tarara, girl, is my dance.

7:02 Thank you very much.

7:11 Thank you very much.

7:12 I am Amaia.

7:13 I'm from Pamplona from Spain, and it's a pleasure to be here.

7:18 Thank you, NPR, and thank you, Tiny Desk.

7:21 Sorry, I'm a bit nervous and my English is regular, but I'm going to try.

7:30 Thank you.

7:33 The next song is a mashup from between...

7:38 Sorry.

7:38 See?

7:39 I'm already starting to— It's a mashup between "Zorongo Gitano" by Lorca

7:44 and "Rumores de la Caleta" by Albéniz I hope you like it.

7:48 Thank you.

7:50 Olé, beautiful.

8:16 My caring hands are embroidering a cape for you,

8:28 with a trim of wallflowers, and with a capelet of water.

8:37 The moon is a small well.

8:47 The flowers are worth nothing.

9:02 What matters are your arms when they embrace me at night.

9:35 At night I go out to the countryside and cry my eyes out.

9:39 Thinking about how much I love you, and that you don't love me at all.

9:47 The moon is a small well.

9:50 Flowers are worth nothing.

9:52 What matters are your arms when they hold me at night.

10:18 24 hours a day, 24 hours it has.

10:22 If it had 27, I would love you three more hours.

10:30 The moon is a small well.

10:33 Flowers are worth nothing.

10:35 What matters are your arms when they hold me at night.

11:35 I woke up sad, wanting to cry.

11:41 The nest is empty.

11:44 All three are already gone.

11:47 I hear the echo of your laugh in the corners of the house.

11:50 You left so soon.

11:52 How could this happen?

11:54 I miss your messy table.

11:56 The girl left; she won't come back.

11:58 When the world is heavy and the pain bothers you,

12:01 I'll be waiting here to take care of you, my love.

12:04 And when you don't write or call me, it pierces my heart.

12:11 And I can see it, I know you are growing, I don't want to overwhelm you.

12:16 When the world is heavy and the pain bothers you,

12:19 I'll be waiting here to take care of you, my love.

12:41 And when you don't write to me nor do you call, it pierces my heart.

13:23 And you left and I didn't realize it, I didn't turn off the lights.

13:28 I'm still waking up, and what do I know?

13:32 I don't know what I responded.

13:35 And I didn't even take off my makeup.

13:38 My clothes smell like smoke and fernet.

13:44 Everything is spinning, I lose gravity.

13:48 I look for you in the crowd, knowing that you're not there.

13:52 I feel my pupils about to burst, I don't know if it's from the sorrow,

14:00 or maybe I just want to dance, I just want to dance.

15:44 Thank you.

15:55 The best pass ever.

15:57 Thank you very much.

16:00 This is the last song.

16:02 Yeah, yeah.

16:03 This flew by, it's crazy.

16:05 But anyway, I've also, well- I have said later,

16:13 Sorry about my English because when I'm nervous it's more— how do you say it?

16:21 Worse.

16:22 Fuck.

16:22 But this is the last song.

16:25 Thank you, NPR.

16:26 Thank you, Tiny Desk.

16:27 Thank you, all of you.

16:29 You are beautiful.

16:30 You have been a really, really good audience.

16:36 Thank you.

16:42 And the last song is called "Yamaguchi."

16:46 That is a park from my country Pamplona.

16:49 And I'm going to explain in Spanish.

16:52 Of what's— how was it?

16:55 What it's about.

16:56 Yamaguchi is a city, I mean.

16:58 Well, yes, it's a city.

16:59 It's a park in Pamplona, which is my city, and it's also a city in Japan.

17:04 So Yamaguchi and Pamplona are sister cities.

17:07 So in Pamplona there is a park called Yamaguchi, where I, well,

17:11 for example, had my first kiss, my first park hangs with friends.

17:15 And in Yamaguchi the city there is a park— a square called Pamplona.

17:21 So this song talks a bit about that parallel.

17:24 And I like to think that in the city Yamaguchi

17:26 there is also a girl who also experienced those things,

17:28 but in the Pamplona park.

17:29 And that is what this song is about.

17:31 Thank you very much, I hope you like it and thank you again.

17:36 Bravo.

17:37 Viva!

17:39 Ole!

17:42 The pitch, please?

17:47 OK.

17:56 There is a park in my Pamplona that I want to remember.

18:07 I bloomed alongside the cherry trees of that beautiful place.

18:19 Of that beautiful place, I will always keep the kisses,

18:26 the first ones in my life, that a boy wanted to give me.

18:37 There is a park in my Pamplona that I want to remember.

18:51 In Yamaguchi park, I should have stayed.

19:14 I wonder if there are any in Japan.

19:25 I saw them at the Festival San Juan.

19:34 With the cherry blossoms in bloom, at the San Juan festival,

19:40 I wonder if in Japan, a little girl cries.

19:47 In the park of Pamplona, in the city of Yamaguchi.

19:58 There is a park in my Pamplona that I want to remember.

20:17 In Yamaguchi park, I should have stayed.

21:19 Thank you.

21:20 Thank you.