Antonio Orozco is a Spanish singer-songwriter from Barcelona, Spain.
He … Read Full Bio ↴Antonio Orozco is a Spanish singer-songwriter from Barcelona, Spain.
He has won several prizes like the Premio Onda and sold lots of records, his first album sold more than 100,000 copies, whereas his second album titled Semilla del Silencio sold over 300,000 copies.
In 2005 he released a self titled album Antonio Orozco, which was a compilation of his best songs (twelve in total) that eventually propelled him into stardom outside Spain, mainly in Latin America and other parts of the world. Some of his better known songs include: "Te Esperaré" and "Déjame".
He is known as well because of his duets with Lucie Silvas (What You're Made Of) and Malú (Devuélveme la vida).

Y No Hay Manera
Antonio Orozco Lyrics

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Entre batallas, jugando
Con miles de palabras ando
No hay forma de que vuele un barco

Con los sentidos gritando
La rima nos está explicando
No hay forma de contar el talco

Y hay mil maneras de mirar
Y hay mil maneras de contar

Y no hay manera de contar la calma
De contar el aire que tú me regalas
De contar el tiempo cuando se paraba
De explicarte esto, sólo con palabras

Y no hay palabras con las que explicarte
Cómo fue el momento en el que pude hablarte
Cómo son tus manos cuando se resbalan
Cómo yo me pierdo cuando tú me hablas

Cómo es esta guerra de universos
Dónde se quedaron los lamentos

Los pensamientos al viento
La pena siempre en el desierto
La vida te lo va pidiendo

No hay mal de amores sin dueño
Ni nadie que sepa por dónde vendrá

Si bailo, tu ritmo se me va
Tu ritmo se me va enredando

Hay mil maneras de pensar
Hay mil maneras de contar

Y no hay manera de contar la calma
De contar el aire que tú me regalas
De contar el tiempo cuando se paraba
De explicarte esto, sólo con palabras

Y no hay palabras con las que explicarte
Cómo fue el momento en el que pude hablarte

Cómo son tus manos cuando se resbalan
Cómo yo me pierdo cuando tú me hablas

Overall Meaning

In Y No Hay Manera, Antonio Orozco sings of the difficulty of expressing the depth of his emotions and experiences through words. He speaks of being caught in battles and using thousands of words, yet finding no way for a ship to fly (symbolizing his inability to transcend the limitations of language). Orozco's senses are heightened and he finds the rhyming words are explaining his feelings, yet even then he cannot count the talcum powder, or fully comprehend the beauty of the moment. He attempts to communicate the calmness, the air that his partner gives him, and the moments when time stood still. However, he recognizes that there are no words that can accurately describe these feelings. He speaks of the struggle to translate his experiences of love into language, describing it as a war of universes where there are no clear answers or guidelines.

Orozco continues to wax eloquent about the ineffable quality of love, stating that there is no owner to the pain of love and no one knows from where it will come. He describes the way his partner's rhythm is contagious, and how, once he starts dancing to it, he gets lost in it. He acknowledges the innumerable ways in which people can look or speak about something, yet there is still no way to fully express the internal beauty of it. Although there are no concrete answers or remedies to the struggles of love, Orozco seems to find some solace in the fact that he is not alone in experiencing these emotions.

Line by Line Meaning

Entre batallas, jugando
Amidst battles and playing

Con miles de palabras ando
I walk with thousands of words

No hay forma de que vuele un barco
There's no way for a ship to fly

Con los sentidos gritando
With the senses screaming

La rima nos está explicando
The rhyme is explaining to us

No hay forma de contar el talco
There's no way to count the talc

Y hay mil maneras de mirar
And there are a thousand ways to look

Y hay mil maneras de contar
And there are a thousand ways to tell

Y no hay manera de contar la calma
And there's no way to count the calm

De contar el aire que tú me regalas
To count the air that you give me

De contar el tiempo cuando se paraba
To count the time when it stopped

De explicarte esto, sólo con palabras
To explain this to you, only with words

Y no hay palabras con las que explicarte
And there are no words to explain to you

Cómo fue el momento en el que pude hablarte
How was the moment when I could talk to you

Cómo son tus manos cuando se resbalan
How your hands feel when they slip

Cómo yo me pierdo cuando tú me hablas
How I get lost when you talk to me

Cómo es esta guerra de universos
How this war of universes is

Dónde se quedaron los lamentos
Where the regrets were left

Los pensamientos al viento
Thoughts to the wind

La pena siempre en el desierto
Sorrow always in the desert

La vida te lo va pidiendo
Life is asking it of you

No hay mal de amores sin dueño
There's no love sickness without an owner

Ni nadie que sepa por dónde vendrá
Nor anyone that knows where it will come from

Si bailo, tu ritmo se me va
If I dance, your rhythm takes over me

Tu ritmo se me va enredando
Your rhythm gets tangled up with me

Hay mil maneras de pensar
There are a thousand ways to think

Hay mil maneras de contar
There are a thousand ways to tell