El Mañana Lyrics
Summer don't know me no more
He got mad, tiresome
Summer don't know me
He'd just let me low in myself
[Pre-Chorus 1]
'Cause I do know love
From you then
Just dying
[Chorus]
I saw that day
Lost my mind
Lord, I'm fine
Maybe in time
You'll want to be mine
[Verse 2]
Don't stop the bud when it comes
It's the dawn, you'll see
Money won't get there
Ten years passed tonight, you'll flee
[Pre-Chorus 2]
If you do that
I'll be sworn
To find you
I saw that day
Lost my mind
Lord, I'm fine
Maybe in time
You'll want to be mine
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
I saw that day
Lost my mind
Lord, I'm fine
Maybe in time
You'll want to be mine
[Outro]
Maybe in time
You'll want to be mine
Maybe in time
You'll want to be mine
Maybe in time
You'll want to be mine
Maybe in time
You'll want to be mine
About
“El Mañana” is the seventh track on the Demon Days album. The song was released as a single on April 10th, 2006, along with Kids with Guns.
El Mañana is Spanish for “the future” or “the near future”. However, “mañana” by itself can be translated as “Tomorrow”, leaving certain people to believe the title translated to English is “the tomorrow”, despite this being proven false.
In the music video, we see the Windmill Island from Feel Good Inc. being destroyed, and the fictional band member Noodle purposely made to look as if she was deceased.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Here’s a quote from Damon about the song before it came out. Apparently it’s from an interview with Rolling Stone Latin America and translated from Spanish. So it might sound a bit wonky:
There is a new song that’s called “El Mañana”, a Spanish name, and I believe that brings together some ideas. My daughter is going to a Spanish school because I love this culture, I want her to speak in Spanish, and to live with Latin culture, that seems vital to me. And the language has influenced me.
I picked this title because “mañana” in Castilian means many things: the future, the dawn, the morning… it has many levels. It’s a song that’s sad but optimistic, because in order to make something positive you have to move away from the negative. If our present is negative, at some point there’s a duty to try to stop it being that way. We’re not going to sing hymns to naive happiness for this, but the future is our responsibility. And Gorillaz is our contribution to the mañana.
- 1.Intro
- 5.Dirty Harry
- 7.El Mañana
- 10.All Alone
- 11.White Light
- 12.DARE
- 15.Demon Days