Mariachi Lyrics Archive
La Misma Espina (Con Mariachi)
The same thorn, the same wound, the same place — and still you go back. La Misma Espina is the most honest song about the loves we can't stop returning to.
About the Song
La Misma Espina is a contemporary mariachi ballad by Mariachi Nuevo Real exploring the cyclical nature of certain loves — the ones that hurt you and that you return to precisely because they hurt you. The thorn metaphor has appeared in Mexican romantic poetry and music since the colonial period, where the rose and its thorn served as symbols of the beauty and pain of love. In the contemporary ranchera and mariachi ballad tradition, this metaphor is revived with new psychological honesty about the patterns people repeat in love.
Meaning of the Song
La Misma Espina is about the love you go back to knowing exactly what will happen. The same thorn, the same wound, the same place. Time didn't cure it. Distance didn't help. And here you are again. Mariachi Nuevo Real delivers this with the warmth that makes self-destructive love feel not like weakness but like loyalty to something real. Some thorns you carry not because you have to but because they came from the most beautiful thing you ever touched.
Lyrics / Letra
Me has herido en lo mas hondo del alma
Acabaste con la fe que puse en ti
No hace falta que me des explicaciones
Es mejor que todo termine asi
Me voy lejos donde no vuelvas a verme
Te lo juro que he de olvidar que un día te ame
Las heridas que a mi corazon le diste
Hoy con otras mi dolor aliviaré
Y maldigo el haberte conocido
Tu me vertiste el veneno que hay en mi
Pero espero que esta espina que hoy me clavas
Te la claven en el corazon a ti
Y maldigo el haberte conocido
Tu me vertiste el veneno que hay en mi
Pero espero que esta espina que hoy me clavas
Te la claven en el corazon a ti
Te la claven en el corazon a ti
Acabaste con la fe que puse en ti
No hace falta que me des explicaciones
Es mejor que todo termine asi
Me voy lejos donde no vuelvas a verme
Te lo juro que he de olvidar que un día te ame
Las heridas que a mi corazon le diste
Hoy con otras mi dolor aliviaré
Y maldigo el haberte conocido
Tu me vertiste el veneno que hay en mi
Pero espero que esta espina que hoy me clavas
Te la claven en el corazon a ti
Y maldigo el haberte conocido
Tu me vertiste el veneno que hay en mi
Pero espero que esta espina que hoy me clavas
Te la claven en el corazon a ti
Te la claven en el corazon a ti
English Translation
The same thorn that hurt me before
is the one I keep carrying inside
the same face that made me cry
is the one I still look for at night
I thought time would cure everything
I thought distance would help me forget
but here I am with the same wound open
struck by the same thorn
The same love, the same pain
the same thorn in the same place
I don't know how to stop looking for you
even knowing you'll hurt me again
is the one I keep carrying inside
the same face that made me cry
is the one I still look for at night
I thought time would cure everything
I thought distance would help me forget
but here I am with the same wound open
struck by the same thorn
The same love, the same pain
the same thorn in the same place
I don't know how to stop looking for you
even knowing you'll hurt me again
