Lo Mejor De Nuestras Vidas Lyrics in English by Fito Páez
Altamar literally translates to "open sea" or "high seas." It's a more poetic and less common way to refer to the deep, open ocean, evoking a sense of vastness and sometimes vulnerability.
In the song, Fito Páez uses it in the line, "La ilusión de la pelota nos abriga en altamar" (The illusion of the ball shelters us on the open sea). Here, "altamar" serves as a metaphor for life's uncertainties and challenges, suggesting that the simple joy and hope found in something like a soccer ball can provide comfort and protection amidst life's vast and sometimes turbulent journey.
"Lo Mejor De Nuestras Vidas" is Fito Páez's call to keep fighting for what matters, even when the world around him feels broken. He sings about a media that twists the news, a country wounded by poverty, and animals and people alike treated as disposable. Against all that, the chorus lands hard: life is worth nothing if you don't fight for it.
The second half turns from anger to hope. He wishes for children to just be children, for love to be the reason for everything, and for old age to be met with happiness rather than fear. He even imagines communism coming back or governments burning down, not out of despair but as a way of saying nothing is fixed forever.
He closes by pointing to Mahatma Gandhi, who freed a nation without firing a single bullet, and by giving thanks to Luis Alberto Spinetta, the legendary Argentine musician he loved and admired. It's a song about staying alive with purpose: loving hard, speaking your mind, and refusing to let anyone take the best years you have.
