Bestias translates to "beasts" or "wild animals." It's a striking and evocative word that immediately grabs attention, especially as it's the central theme and title of the song.
In Fito Páez's lyrics, "bestias" is used to represent humanity, suggesting a raw, primal, and perhaps suffering aspect of human nature. The song explores the idea that "Todas las bestias sufrimos sin parar" (All the beasts suffer without stopping), giving the word a profound and metaphorical meaning beyond its literal translation.
Fito Páez calls all of us "bestias," beasts, who suffer quietly and carry our pain without complaint. The song looks at how easily people hurt each other, and how a broken heart can hold both love and the darkest fears at the same time.
At its center is a hard question: how do you fix a world where everyone believes they are right? Páez's answer is bleak. He says even the gentlest people will fall too, left out in a kind of valley of death, while armies of good and evil keep marching without end.
There is no tidy resolution here. The future looks like a cold, empty desert, and the beasts gather in the ruined streets of what used to be a great city, just trying to get through the night together. When Páez says this is "the song of the beasts," he means it as a shared cry, an honest ballad for everyone worn down by cruelty and confusion, sung instead of explained.