2:55
Kiko, 1992
Written by David Hidalgo and Louie Pérez
A folk-rock song with razor sharp guitars and a lyric that evokes ancient Aztec rituals ("Oh sacred night / On quetzal plumes / Of dying suns / And purple moons"). The voices are subdued, the words mysterious. Where are they going at night on a hard rocky road? Why is Dolores failing to wake, though they seem to be in flight? The arrangement is halting, jittery; guitars and voices echo the lead vocal like a chorus of chanting ghosts as the final lines lapses into Nahuatl, saying something about moving on. It's an ethereal, compelling track.