Catorce does mean 14. The only thing I can think of, in relationtion to their song "vertigo", is that he was trying to express how one can move so fast at times that they can actually miss what's inbetween. read more
The opening line of Vertigo, first track on How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, is uno, dos, tres, catorce (one, two, three, fourteen in Spanish). read more