Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri Izarduy, better known as Enrique Bunbury, was bo… Read Full Bio ↴Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri Izarduy, better known as Enrique Bunbury, was born August 11, 1967 in Zaragoza, Spain. He got involved in music in the early 1980s, making his debut in a high school band called Apocalipsis, and later played along with Proceso Entrópico. In 1984 Bunbury joined a group called Zumo de Vidrio, debuting as a lead vocalist. After adopting the nickname of Bunbury, taken from an Oscar Wilde novel, the musician teamed up with Héroes del Silencio, becoming a major number in the Spanish rock scene.

The band eventually broke up in 1996 and Bunbury started his solo career in 1997 with a techno album, Radical Sonora with his new band: Copi (piano), del Moran (bass), Ramón Gacias (drums) and former Héroes del Silencio guitarrist Alan Boguslavsky.

Recognized by his wish to always reinvent himself, Bunbury released in 1999 the album Pequeño, which sounded much different than anything he did before. His band also suffered changes, Boguslavsky was replaced by Rafa Domínguez, and the new faces, Ana Belén Estaje (violin), Luis Miguel Romero (percussion), Javier Iñigo, Javier García Vega & Antonio Ríos in the metal instruments.

This band was known as the "Huracán Ambulante" ("Rambling Hurricane") and recorded with Bunbury the rest of his solo discography, (except Antonio Ríos).

In 2005, after 8 years together, Bunbury dissolved the band and declared that will record a new album in 2006 only with his voice and a piano. Nevertheless, in early 2006 he recorded an album with spanish artist Nacho Vegas by the name of El tiempo de las cerezas.

His old band, Héroes del Silencio, reunited in 2007 for a short tour which visited Latin America, United States and Spain.

Encadenados
Enrique Bunbury Lyrics

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Mujeres son metales
En estado de algodón
Dulce incendio de mamey
Elixir sagrado de escorpión
El espíritu se eleva
Cuando la materia se libera
Así caemos al precipicio
De nuestros bribones apetitos

y pedirá el perdón
Por todos mis pecados
Para vivir encadenados
En la resurrección, sí
De la carne

Así son de imperativos
Los asaltos del deseo
Embistiendo otra vez al abordaje
En el rapto carnal de vaciarme
Pedirá el perdón
Por todos mis pecados
Para vivir encadenados
En la resurrección
De la carne
Aprendí leyes para las reinas
Aprendí todas las técnicas
Aprendí el ritmo de contención
Sólo para complacerlas
En la resurrección, sí

De la carne
En la resurrección, sí

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Enrique Bunbury's song Encadenados explores the themes of desire, sin, and redemption. The opening line, "Mujeres son metales en estado de algodón" (Women are metals in a state of cotton), sets the tone for the song's message that although women are soft and delicate like cotton, they can be as strong as metal. The following lines, "Dulce incendio de mamey, Elixir sagrado de escorpión" (Sweet fire of mamey, sacred elixir of the scorpion) implies a hedonistic pleasure, akin to the dangerous potency of a scorpion's sting.

The second verse continues with the theme of sin and desire, as the singer says, "Así son de imperativos los asaltos del deseo" (Thus are the assaults of desire so imperative). The singer is wrestling with his inner demons, describing the "rapto carnal de vaciarme" (carnal seizure of emptying myself) that desire brings. However, the song also provides a message of hope for redemption, as the singer asks for forgiveness for his sins and seeks to live "encadenados" (chained) in the resurrection of the flesh.

Overall, the song Encadenados is a reflection on the complexities of desire, sin, and redemption, acknowledging the power that these themes have over the human experience.

Line by Line Meaning

Mujeres son metales
Women are like metals

En estado de algodón
In a cotton-like state

Dulce incendio de mamey
Sweet fire of mamey

Elixir sagrado de escorpión
Sacred elixir of scorpion

El espíritu se eleva
The spirit rises

Cuando la materia se libera
When matter is liberated

Así caemos al precipicio
Thus we fall into the abyss

De nuestros bribones apetitos
Of our villainous appetites

y pedirá el perdón
And ask for forgiveness

Por todos mis pecados
For all my sins

Para vivir encadenados
To live in chains