Flaca Lyrics in English Andrés Calamaro

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Flaca by Andrés Calamaro from Spanish to English.
Chorus 1
Skinny
Don't stab me
Chorus 1
With your daggers
In my back
Chorus 1
So deep
They don't hurt me
Chorus 1
They don't harm me
Far
Chorus 2
In the center
Of the earth
Chorus 2
The roots
Of love
Chorus 2
Where they were
Will remain
Among the forget-me-nots
I left our forgotten Aprils
At the bottom of the closet
Of the guest room
They were golden times
Of a better past
Though I'm almost mistaken
And I tell you little by little
Don't lie to me
Don't tell me the truth
Don't stay silent
Don't raise your voice
Nor ask me for forgiveness
Though I almost confess to you
That I've also been a companion dog
An ideal dog that learned to swim
And to come back home
So I could eat
Skinny
Don't stab me
With your daggers
In my back
So deep
They don't hurt me
They don't harm me
Far
In the center
Of the earth
The roots
Of love
Where they were
Will remain
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SONG MEANING

“Flaca” is Andrés Calamaro’s bittersweet postcard to a past love. Speaking directly to the flaca (skinny girl), the singer begs her not to stab him in the back again, hinting at betrayals that once cut deep. Yet, he immediately disarms the drama by claiming the wounds no longer hurt, showing a mix of bravado and lingering pain. As he digs “in the center of the earth” to where “the roots of love” remain, we sense he is excavating shared memories that refuse to die, even if the romance itself is buried.

The lyrics jump between nostalgia and self-defense: golden days stored “at the back of the guest-room closet,” half-forgotten Aprils, and confessions that he too was a flawed partner — a loyal perro who could swim back home when called to dinner. Calamaro’s storytelling blends raw honesty, irony, and tenderness, painting a portrait of two people stuck between letting go and holding on. In the end, the roots stay put, suggesting that some loves remain underground, feeding our history long after the surface has changed.

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