Colibrí
Salvador Cardenal Barquero Lyrics
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Creció una flor
Que un colibrí sintió
Voló sobre la tierra
Campos de paz y guerra
Pero no encontró su flor
Pero no encontró su flor.
El colibrí voló sin ver atrás
La flor del arco iris
No era la que buscaba
Ni la de mas noble olor
Ni la de increíble olor
El colibri lloro detras del sol
Por su adorada flor
Pero habitaba adentro de su corazoncito
Y no la podia ver, no
Y no la podia ver
La del nectar del amor.
The song "Colibrí" by Salvador Cardenal Barquero is a tale of a hummingbird searching for a particular flower. The lyrics tell the story of a flower that grew in God's garden, one that the hummingbird was keen to find. The bird flew over fields of peace and war, but no matter where it went, it couldn't find the flower it was looking for. This search led the hummingbird to the Garden of God, where the colorful rainbow flower thrived. Sadly, this wasn't the one the bird sought, and it couldn't find the more fragrant flower it was searching for either. The bird wept behind the sun for its beloved flower.
But what did the hummingbird fail to realize? The answer was that the flower it longed for resided inside its own heart, and it couldn't see it. As the other flowers and plants boasted of their colors, sweet nectar, and fragrance, the bird overlooked the flower contained within itself. Despite searching high and low, the hummingbird came full circle without realizing the flower it needed was always with it. Accordingly, the lyrics reveal that sometimes we are so engrossed in chasing our desires that we forget to look inside ourselves, where we may find everything we are looking for.
Line by Line Meaning
En el jardin de Dios
In God's garden
Creció una flor
A flower grew
Que un colibrí sintió
That a hummingbird felt
Voló sobre la tierra
Flew over the earth
Campos de paz y guerra
Fields of peace and war
Pero no encontró su flor
But didn't find its flower
Pero no encontró su flor.
But didn't find its flower.
El colibrí voló sin ver atrás
The hummingbird flew without looking back
Hacia el jardín de Dios
Towards God's garden
La flor del arco iris
The rainbow flower
No era la que buscaba
Wasn't the one it was looking for
Ni la de mas noble olor
Nor the one with the noblest scent
Ni la de increíble olor
Nor the one with the incredible scent
El colibri lloro detras del sol
The hummingbird cried behind the sun
Por su adorada flor
For its beloved flower
Pero habitaba adentro de su corazoncito
But it lived inside its little heart
Y no la podia ver, no
And couldn't see it, no
Y no la podia ver
And couldn't see it
La del nectar del amor.
The one with the nectar of love.
Contributed by Aaron O. Suggest a correction in the comments below.