De Todas Las Flores Lyrics in English by Natalia Lafourcade

Buganvilias are a type of vibrant, colorful flowering vine, known in English as "bougainvilleas". It's a beautiful and somewhat uncommon word that you won't find in every Spanish song.

In "De Todas Las Flores," Natalia Lafourcade uses it to create a vivid, sensory memory of a specific place: the "jardín de rosas buganvilias" (garden of roses and bougainvilleas). This beautiful setting serves as a powerful backdrop for the song's story of love and loss, making the feeling of nostalgia even more profound.

Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade walks us through a garden of faded love in "De Todas Las Flores". Instead of a neat story, she gives us sensory flashes of a romance that slipped away. She sings about what remains after the fire goes out: "De todas las flores que sembramos / Sólo quedan unas encendidas" ("Of all the flowers we planted / Only a few stay lit"). The image of flowers "staying lit" like candles or embers is striking. Those few blossoms still wait for a lover who will never return to sing to them.

She looks back on specific memories, like wandering around drunk with no destination in Spain: "En las calles de Madrid borrachos fuimos sin un rumbo fijo" ("In the streets of Madrid we were drunk without a fixed direction"). The romance mixes sweet moments with sharp pain, which she directly compares to a thorny touch: "Como tu caricia, suave como espina" ("Like your caress, soft as a thorn"). In the end, the lush setting of "rosas buganvilias" ("bougainvillea roses") turns from a private paradise where the couple shared everything into the very place where they lost each other completely.