Fasten your seatbelt for a ride in a bumper car without a steering wheel! In “Autos De Choque,” Bunbury invites us into a chaotic amusement-park metaphor where society’s leaders pound on drums, wave moral manuals and try to steer our lives for us. The lyrics paint those power-holders as vigilantes de las costumbres who hand out nothing but “bait and placebos,” leading the masses toward a trash-heap of broken mirrors and broken identities. Their goal? To keep us dizzy, sweating “blood” in endless collisions while they preach empty rules.
Yet the song is fiercely defiant. Bunbury reminds us that there is one purpose that lies beyond their domain: the right to disappear from their game, to reclaim freedom and meaning they cannot touch or even understand. “Autos De Choque” becomes an anthem for anyone who refuses to believe second-hand truths, smashes the mirrors of manipulation, and drives off the carnival lot on their own terms.