What is the song about?
The song tells the story of a week in the city. From Monday to Friday there is an alarm, coffee, the train, and lots of work. On Friday night, rest arrives. On Saturday, the person sleeps in, meets up with friends, and goes to the sea. On Sunday, they read on the sofa and cook. In the bridge, the stress of the week appears along with the desire to forget everything without a boss and without rules.
Useful words and expressions
- los días de la semana: the days of the week (lunes, martes, miércoles, jueves, viernes, sábado, domingo)
- día de semana / fin de semana: a working day / Saturday and Sunday
- de lunes a viernes: all working days
- por la mañana: in the part of the day before noon
- suena el reloj / suena la campana: the alarm clock or the bell makes noise
- coger el tren: to take the train (this is how it is said in Spain; in many Latin American countries people say tomar)
- quedar con amigos: to meet up with friends at an agreed place and time (used in Spain)
- el móvil: the phone (Spain; in Latin America people say el celular)
- el madrugón: getting up very early (colloquial)
- las prisas: the feeling of not having time
- soltarse la melena: a colloquial expression that means to relax and have fun without worries
- toca + infinitivo: it is time to do something (toca descansar)
- libre al fin: finally free
Grammar
- First-person present indicative: bebo, cojo, espero, miro, leo, cocino. Some verbs are irregular: voy (ir), hago (hacer).
- Stem-changing verbs: duermo (dormir, o → ue), suena (sonar), cuelga (colgar), duele (doler).
- Me duele la espalda: doler works like gustar: the thing that hurts is the subject.
- The gerund: buscando, riendo, borrando describe an ongoing action.
- Simple future: te gustará expresses a prediction.
- Days with an article: normally you say el lunes por la mañana and el sábado por la mañana. The song drops the article at the beginning of the lines for rhythm; in normal speech, el is used.
Poetic license for rhyme
- la gente va veloz: the natural way to say this is la gente va deprisa or va rápido. veloz is used to rhyme with voz.
- no quiero perder: the object is missing. The correct form would be no quiero perderlo (the train). It is shortened to rhyme with hacer.
- el descanso para mi sed: this is an unusual poetic image chosen to rhyme with pared. It is not a common expression.
- ni madrugón: in normal speech you would say ni madrugones, in the plural like prisas.
- toca soltarme la melena: the usual form is me toca soltarme la melena or toca soltarse la melena.