PIToRRO DE COCO Lyrics in English by BAD BUNNY

Pitorro is the name for a traditional Puerto Rican distilled spirit, essentially a type of moonshine. It's often homemade and famously strong, sometimes flavored with fruits like coconut (coco), as mentioned in the song.

In "PIToRRO DE COCO", Bad Bunny creates a powerful image of heartbreak. His grandfather gave him the pitorro to celebrate the holidays, but instead, he's drinking it alone while crying over a lost love. This word is central to the song's melancholic and culturally rich story.

Bad Bunny hits us with a messy holiday heartbreak story in "PIToRRO DE COCO". Instead of celebrating New Year's Eve, he is sitting around watching the clock tick past midnight while nursing a broken heart. Exactly a year ago, he was the one receiving that first midnight kiss. Now, he got nothing: "Ni una llamada, ni un sólo mensaje" (Not a call, not a single message). His friends are teasing him because he is completely lost in his feelings, or as he puts it, "en un viaje" (tripping out / spaced out). By four minutes past midnight, he is already crying into the coconut moonshine his grandfather gave him to party with, not to weep over an ex.

The lyrics mix holiday traditions with Puerto Rican domino slang to show how badly she outplayed him. He jokes that he asked both Santa and the Three Kings (Los Reyes) to bring her back, but neither delivered. Then he uses a classic game metaphor: "Con el doble seis y doble cinco, me trancaste el juego" (With the double six and double five, you locked the game on me). In Puerto Rican dominoes, "trancar el juego" means blocking the board so nobody can play, leaving the player with the heaviest tiles to lose. Even though he calls her toxic and admits he ignored the red flags just to keep kissing her, he still can't get her face out of his head as the new year starts.