Recycled J opens this one at 3 a.m. in a dressing room, "dripeando sudores frĂos" (dripping cold sweats). Dripear is Spanglish slang built from the English "drip", usually used for flashy style, and here he twists it into nervous sweat. Fame has come with a price: "Me volvĂ popular, me quedĂ© sin amigos" (I got popular, I ran out of friends). He orders your favourite dish for dinner, and the fridge holds only caviar and a couple of bottles opened ages ago. Luxury brands, cardboard boxes, and "trapos sucios que lavar" (dirty laundry to wash), which in Spanish also means private problems you would rather keep hidden.
The chorus is blunt: "Ya no hay manera" (there's no way anymore). Someone he loved needs more than he can give, and it cannot be fixed. The second verse moves to 5 a.m. with "Madrid en vilo" (Madrid on edge, kept awake), walking the streets they used to share. Her photo is folded in his wallet, and he calls her "mi droga desde que era un chaval" (my drug since I was a kid; chaval is Spain's everyday word for a boy). Money does not help either: "el queso viene y va" (the cheese comes and goes), where queso is slang for cash. Even "comernos la boca" (literally eating each other's mouths, meaning kissing hard) is now just a memory. A sad, tired song, and a great one for picking up real Spanish street slang.