Complicidad Lyrics in English by Vanesa Martín, Manuel Medrano
Desengaño means the painful realization that something or someone is not what you believed, often with a sense of heartbreak or disappointment. In the song, "el bar del desengaño" is a striking metaphorical place where the two former lovers have become strangers, making this uncommon word especially vivid and memorable.
In “Complicidad,” Vanesa Martín and Manuel Medrano describe two people who were once close but now behave like strangers. The speaker searches for a secret sign in the other person’s eyes: “Miro a un lado / Por si encuentro la complicidad en tus ojos” [“I look to the side / in case I find understanding in your eyes”]. Here, complicidad means the private connection between people who understand each other without having to explain everything. The tenderness is still there, but so is the caution: one person wants to speak softly when the other comes close, while both seem afraid of another argument.
The chorus keeps asking, “¿Cómo lo resolvemos?” [“How do we solve it?”] and “¿Cómo lo rescatamos?” [“How do we rescue it?”]. The relationship has become “el bar del desengaño” [“the bar of disappointment”], a clever image for a place where their hopes have gone to drink, although they have “hasta la sed” [“not even thirst”] left. The lyrics ask them not to lock away what deserves “incendios” [“fires”], meaning feelings too intense to be neatly stored and ignored. Then desire and anger collide: someone arrives “levantando polvo” [“kicking up dust”], and the couple remembers their worn-out sheets before shouting without saying what they really mean. It is a song about trying to find the sense in a relationship that has changed direction, while wondering whether the old closeness can still be rescued.
