Nieblas Del Riachuelo
Diego El Cigala & Bebo Valdes Lyrics

The opening lines of the song, "Turbio fondeadero donde van a recalar, barcos que en el muelle para siempre han de quedar" set a melancholic and mournful tone, describing a murky dock where ships come to moor forever. The image of the "náufragos del mundo" or "shipwrecked of the world" who have lost their hearts, creates a somber atmosphere rendering the listener empathetic to the sadness and pain of the abandoned ships. This can be seen as a metaphor for the heartbreak of a love that has been lost forever, as if a relationship has been metaphorically shipwrecked.

The second verse describes the tattered remains of these shipwrecks, their ropes and bridges howling in the wind, the coal ships that will never sail again, and a deaf cemetery of dead ships that dream of setting sail yet again. The third verse brings the song together, as the singer speaks of a lost love whose memory he cannot let go, one whose voice he can still hear clearly saying goodbye. The chorus repeats the haunting phrase "Niebla del riachuelo", translating to "fog of the creek", and becomes its own kind of metaphor for both the physical fog that shrouds the waters and the emotional fog that forever clouds the singer’s heart as he awaits an illusory return.