This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Vos que andás diciendo que hay mejores y peores
Vos que andás diciendo que se debe hacer
Vos que andás diciendo que hay mejores y peores
Vos que andás diciendo que se debe hacer
Escucha lo que te canto, pero no confundir
Es de paz lo que canto
Que me hablas de privilegios
De una raza soberana
Superiores, inferiores minga de poder
¿Cómo se te ocurre que algunos son elegidos
Y otros son para el descarte? ambiciones de poder
Es malo tu destino
Que marcó tu camino
La canción que es valiente
Es canción para siempre
Como dijo mi abuela
Aquí el que no corre vuela
Y en el planeta son tantos
Ay, ¿cómo pueden ser tantos?
En la escuela nos enseñan a memorizar
Fechas de batallas
Pero que poco nos enseñan de amor
Discriminar, eso no esta nada bien
Ante los ojos de dios todos somos iguales
Sos el que hace las guerras
Dicta falsas condenas
El que ama la violencia
Que no tiene conciencia
Que no la tiene, nunca piensa
Nunca piensa, nunca piensa
No cuida ni su alma, oh-oh
Mambo
Mal bicho
Todos te dicen que sos
Mal bicho
Así es como te ves
Mal bicho, zengue-zengue-ze-ze
Mal bicho, que-zengue-zengue-ze-zen
Mal bicho
Todos te dicen que sos
Mal bicho
Así es como te ves
Mal bicho, zengue-zengue-ze-ze
Mal bicho, que-rrenque-tenque-ten-ten
Vos que vas lastimando
A quién se ve distinto
Imponiendo posturas
Siempre con mano dura
Mal bicho, your destiny's bad
Mal bicho, voice marks your pride
Mal bicho, a song that is played
Mal bicho, is a song for always
Mal bicho, who makes the wars
Mal bicho, everything's lost
Mal bicho, you love the man
Mal bicho, and you don't give a damn
Mambo
Mal bicho
Todos te dicen que sos
Mal bicho
Así es como te ves
Mal bicho, zengue-zengue-ze-ze
Mal bicho, que-zengue-zengue-ze-zen
Mal bicho
Todos te dicen que sos
Mal bicho
Así es como te ves
Mal bicho, zengue-zengue-ze-ze
Mal bicho, que-rrenque-tenque-ten-ten
Vos tenés pal' abrigo
Otros mueren de frío
Sos el que anda matando
El que va torturando
Mal bicho
Todos te dicen que sos
Mal bicho
Así es como te ves
Mal bicho, zengue-zengue-ze-ze
Mal bicho, que-rrenque-tenque-ten-ten
Alelú, alelú
Sí
Yo no voy
A la guerra
A la violencia
A la injusticia
Y a tu codicia
Digo no, digo no
Digo no, digo no, digo no
Digo no, digo no
Digo no, digo no, digo no
Pasa en el mundo
¿Qué me pasa en el mundo?
Vos que andás diciendo que se debe hacer
Vos que andás diciendo que hay mejores y peores
Vos que andás diciendo que se debe hacer
Escucha lo que te canto, pero no confundir
Es de paz lo que canto
Que me hablas de privilegios
De una raza soberana
Superiores, inferiores minga de poder
¿Cómo se te ocurre que algunos son elegidos
Y otros son para el descarte? ambiciones de poder
Es malo tu destino
Que marcó tu camino
La canción que es valiente
Es canción para siempre
Como dijo mi abuela
Aquí el que no corre vuela
Y en el planeta son tantos
Ay, ¿cómo pueden ser tantos?
En la escuela nos enseñan a memorizar
Fechas de batallas
Pero que poco nos enseñan de amor
Discriminar, eso no esta nada bien
Ante los ojos de dios todos somos iguales
Sos el que hace las guerras
Dicta falsas condenas
El que ama la violencia
Que no tiene conciencia
Que no la tiene, nunca piensa
Nunca piensa, nunca piensa
No cuida ni su alma, oh-oh
Mambo
Mal bicho
Todos te dicen que sos
Mal bicho
Así es como te ves
Mal bicho, zengue-zengue-ze-ze
Mal bicho, que-zengue-zengue-ze-zen
Mal bicho
Todos te dicen que sos
Mal bicho
Así es como te ves
Mal bicho, zengue-zengue-ze-ze
Mal bicho, que-rrenque-tenque-ten-ten
Vos que vas lastimando
A quién se ve distinto
Imponiendo posturas
Siempre con mano dura
Mal bicho, your destiny's bad
Mal bicho, voice marks your pride
Mal bicho, a song that is played
Mal bicho, is a song for always
Mal bicho, who makes the wars
Mal bicho, everything's lost
Mal bicho, you love the man
Mal bicho, and you don't give a damn
Mambo
Mal bicho
Todos te dicen que sos
Mal bicho
Así es como te ves
Mal bicho, zengue-zengue-ze-ze
Mal bicho, que-zengue-zengue-ze-zen
Mal bicho
Todos te dicen que sos
Mal bicho
Así es como te ves
Mal bicho, zengue-zengue-ze-ze
Mal bicho, que-rrenque-tenque-ten-ten
Vos tenés pal' abrigo
Otros mueren de frío
Sos el que anda matando
El que va torturando
Mal bicho
Todos te dicen que sos
Mal bicho
Así es como te ves
Mal bicho, zengue-zengue-ze-ze
Mal bicho, que-rrenque-tenque-ten-ten
Alelú, alelú
Sí
Yo no voy
A la guerra
A la violencia
A la injusticia
Y a tu codicia
Digo no, digo no
Digo no, digo no, digo no
Digo no, digo no
Digo no, digo no, digo no
Pasa en el mundo
¿Qué me pasa en el mundo?
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Mal Bicho Lyrics as written by Flavio Oscar Cianciarulo
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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