Hogar Lyrics in English Fito Páez

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Hogar by Fito Páez from Spanish to English.
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I had a motherless childhood
With cousins running here and there
The house was left empty
How I miss you, Dad
You, Admiral Rojas
I wanted to hug you
The world was wearing boots
The blood reached the sea
They threw bodies into the river
The river reached the sea
Babe, we're dying of AIDS
Always playing at the sea
While the flowers opened
Divine, drunk, deliriums
The streets crowded
With crazies doing somersaults
In a shining world
I only saw that they dragged
Like animals across the lobby
Four Montoneros
Dead, outside the law
When Batato was giving
A kiss to the cop on cultural strike
That was being fashionable
That was freedom
It was the seventies
Eighties and nineties of false faith
Very alike in something
And very different too
While today the flowers close
And those divine, drunk, deliriums
The streets crowded
Of crazies doing somersaults
In these wild years
What luck I had, my life
To have reached you
Let's make a house
A new home under the sun
Uh-uh-uh
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SONG MEANING

Hogar takes us on a whirlwind tour through Argentina’s convulsive recent history while zooming in on one man’s search for belonging. Fito Páez stitches together memories of a motherless childhood, military repression, bodies thrown into rivers, the AIDS crisis, and the wild artistic underground of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Every reference feels like a snapshot: “el mundo andaba de botas” paints soldiers’ boots on the streets, “mami, morimos de sida” echoes the fear of a new epidemic, and the image of locos haciendo piruetas shows artists turning pain into performance. These lines blend personal loss with collective trauma, reminding us how everyday life and national tragedy often overlap.

Yet beneath the darkness runs a resilient pulse of hope. By the end, Páez looks straight at the listener and says: “Vamos a hacer una casa, un nuevo hogar bajo el sol.” After surviving dictatorship, disease, and decades of disillusion, he still believes in building something new—a loving home, a safe space, a fresh start. The song is a bittersweet affirmation that, no matter how chaotic the past, we can still choose connection, creativity, and light.

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