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Santa Sabina is a Mexican rock band originally from Mexico City. The group was formed in 1989 by singer Rita Guerrero, bassist Alfonso "Poncho" Figueroa, guitarist Pablo Valero and keyboardist Jacobo Lieberman. Juan Sebastian Lach was keyboardist for a while. The name of the group honors the memory of Maria Sabina, the Mazatec shaman who lived in the southern state of Oaxaca.

Santa Sabina are distinguished by their gothic rock and darkwave atmospheres, lyrics and stage presence. Their music, however, is perhaps best described as a variant of progressive rock which borrows heavily from jazz.

Song Lyrics:

Vampiro (Una cancion para Louis)

¿Cuál es la orilla de la vida humana?
¿Por qué se quiebra por la sed de sangre?
¿Quién me ha ordenado gobernar la noche
con esta eternidad a cuestas?

Yo iba a morir en el temor divino
pero él quería la savia de mis venas
No sé vivir y sé que soy un ángel
abandonado a su soberbia

Mi maldición:
andar sin luz
soñar el sol

Nocturno dios
No hay más credo para mí
Nocturno dios, piedad:
déjame morir

Rojo elixir en mi boca
Vida eterna
y Dios duerme
Déjame beberte
sufro sed de saber
por qué estoy aterrada

Me hizo su esclava por beber su sangre
No sabe de lo frágil de mi carne
Dice que no me encuentro en el espejo
y lo enmudece la belleza

La soledad es su mansión nocturna
Viaja veloz al filo de la luna
Quiere llevarme asida a sus espaldas
abandonados por la muerte

Nocturno dios:
No hay más credo para él
Nocturno dios, piedad;
déjanos morir
Noche roja en sus ojos
Dios que duerme desangrado

Déjame beberte
Tengo sed de saber
tu razón de entregarte

Lyrics Translation to English:

What is the edge of human life?
Why is bankruptcy bloodlust?
Who has ordered me rule the night
with this eternity in tow?

I was going to die in the fear of God
but he wanted the sap of my veins
I can not live and I know I'm an angel
abandoned their pride

My curse
walk without light
dream the sun

night god
No creed for me more
Night God, piety:
let me die

Red elixir in my mouth
eternal Life
and God Sleeps
let me drink you
I suffer thirst for knowledge
why I'm terrified

She made her slave to drink his blood
Do not know how fragile my meat
He says I am not in the mirror
and muted beauty

Loneliness is your night mansion
Travels fast on the edge of the moon
He wants to take grasped behind
abandoned by death

Night God:
There is no creed for him
Night God, godliness;
let us die
Red night in her eyes
God sleeping bled

let me drink you
I thirst for knowledge
Your reason for surrender