Buen Día Benito Lyrics in English El Cuarteto de Nos

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Buen Día Benito by El Cuarteto de Nos from Spanish to English.

Chorus 1

Good morning, Benito

I came to visit you

Verse 1

Good morning, Benito

Chorus 2

I came to visit you

Good morning, Benito, do you remember me?

I am that one who played with you in the yard

I've searched and tracked you, obsessed to see you

How lucky that I finally found you

Remember now? You'd drop by my place at any hour

You'd eat my blackberries

If any were left, you took them because a gold-digger forced you

And even you didn't know if that lady was your mom or your guardian

Do you know who I am?

The one that you told the ending of a cowboy movie

And I'm the owner of the Tolstoy book

On which you slapped a Playboy as the cover

I remember it as if it were today

And that summer when you stole my airplane isn't far away

You kept going and left, with no subtlety, with my Siamese cat

My joystick, the Rubik's Cube

And a Mecano piece

Good morning, Benito

I came to visit you

Good morning, Benito

I came to visit you

Good morning, Benito

I came to visit you

Good morning, Benito

I came to visit you

Remember that you laughed at my teenage acne?

You thought you were macho and you sarcastically said

"I'll smash your face, d*ckhead

And not even the surgeon

Most skilled in Beverly Hills would leave you sound"

And you did it, you landed it on my nose

See this scar? You were vile

They didn't give me ten stitches, they gave me a thousand

And now I'm like the Nazca lines

In Alaska's cold or in Brazil's heat

Remember, you stole my girlfriend in high school

I loved her and you took her to bed

With I don't know what story

And because you were scum I crossed you off

While you flashed the V of victory at me

These aren't my theories

You were the one that tempted my brother with that crap

You had cowardice to spare and you lacked decency

When you saw him shaking, fighting withdrawal

Good morning, Benito

I came to visit you

Good morning, Benito

I came to visit you

Good morning, Benito

I came to visit you

Good morning, Benito

I came to visit you

Did you forget that your dad was the boss of mine

And that by his own free will

He fired him from his job that winter so cold?

I get chills when they recall that mess

Because that's where I learned that men cry too

And then why that time did you call 911?

You told me not to talk and you reported me to the police

You were guilty, I innocent

And you said that the incident was my fault

But today I have a date with justice

And it won't be in vain

I prayed so much to the little Virgin and to Saint Cayetano to find you

That after this visit we'll surely be even

Good morning, Benito

I came to visit you

Good morning, Benito

I came to visit you

Good morning, Benito

I came to visit you

Good morning, Benito

I came to visit you

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SONG MEANING

Buen Día Benito is a tongue-in-cheek vendetta list. The narrator shows up cheerfully – and very ironically – to “visit” Benito, a childhood friend who turned out to be the ultimate freeloader, bully, and back-stabber. Verse by verse he fires off a hilarious yet scathing inventory of Benito’s sins: swiping toys, stealing girlfriends, mocking acne, dragging the narrator’s brother into addiction, even getting his dad fired. Every buen día is a sugar-coated jab that reminds Benito of another dirty deed.

Behind the comic exaggeration lies a theme of long-simmering resentment and karma finally knocking on the door. The visit is not just nostalgic; it is the narrator’s chance to balance the scales, to make sure that after so many years of abuse, “quedamos a mano” – we’re even. El Cuarteto de Nos turns a revenge fantasy into a playful, rapid-fire story that mixes comedy, bitterness, and a warning: sooner or later, all the Benitos of the world have to face the music.

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El Cuarteto de Nos Buen Día Benito Lyrics