La vida total es un porqueria, porqueria
is basically saying life is shitty (like swine)
Hecho menos mas que vida
is saying that he blames himself for it. I made this life.
One thing to keep in mind with this song and the Pixies other Spanish songs is that they are in Puerto Rican Spanish which is a notoriously bastardized version of the language. I remember having the original vinyl of this album which has the lyrics to this song printed on the cover (god, I wish I still had that) and I showed them to my highschool Spanish teacher who was Mexican. She laughed and told me that while she could translate all the individual words, the actually meanings of the sentences were all but lost on her. Combine that with Charles' already weird poetic sense and you've got quite a head scratcher.
La vida total es un porqueria, porqueria is basically saying life is shitty (like swine) Hecho menos mas que vida is saying that he blames himself for it. I made this life.
One thing to keep in mind with this song and the Pixies other Spanish songs is that they are in Puerto Rican Spanish which is a notoriously bastardized version of the language. I remember having the original vinyl of this album which has the lyrics to this song printed on the cover (god, I wish I still had that) and I showed them to my highschool Spanish teacher who was Mexican. She laughed and told me that while she could translate all the individual words, the actually meanings of the sentences were all but lost on her. Combine that with Charles' already weird poetic sense and you've got quite a head scratcher.