Para Siempre Lyrics in English by La Vela Puerca
Estropeó comes from the verb estropear, meaning "to damage," "to spoil," or "to break down." It's a versatile word that describes something going wrong or becoming unusable.
In "Para Siempre," the lyric "Porque se estropeó" (Because it broke down) sets a melancholic tone early on. It suggests that something important, perhaps a plan or a relationship, has unexpectedly failed or been ruined, contributing to the song's theme of disappointment and things not going as imagined.
La Vela Puerca's "Para Siempre" throws us right into a day that's just not going right. The singer feels like everything is broken, saying, "Hoy el día no es como lo imaginé / Se rompió" [Today the day isn't how I imagined it / It broke]. It's a feeling many of us can relate to when things just go completely wrong, and they even say, "Todo mal / No me digas que bien / Porque está todo mal, y lo sabés" [Everything's bad / Don't tell me it's good / Because everything's bad, and you know it].
There's a sense of frustration and betrayal too, with lines like "Me robaste un pedal / Me jodiste la miel" [You stole a pedal from me / You messed up my honey]. It feels like someone has actively made things worse. Despite all this struggle and feeling like the "camino se tuerce demasiado" [path twists too much], there's a desperate hope to know that it's not all for nothing: "Solo quiero saber que no es en vano / Tropezar y volver a caer" [I just want to know that it's not in vain / To stumble and fall again]. Ultimately, the song ends with a powerful decision to move on, declaring, "Y borré tu canción para siempre" [And I erased your song forever], a definitive end to something that clearly caused a lot of pain.
