Me Cuesta Tanto Olvidarte Lyrics in English Mecano

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Me Cuesta Tanto Olvidarte by Mecano from Spanish to English.
Between the sky and the ground there's something
With a tendency to go bald from
So much remembering
And that something that is me
Is a two-faced portrait that
Only shows one face
The visible face is a Signal ad
The hidden face is the result
Of my brilliant idea to dump you
It costs me so much to forget you
It costs me so much
To forget you costs me so much
Forgetting fifteen thousand charms
Is a lot of good sense
And I don't know if I'll be sensible
What I know is that it takes me a while to do
Things unintentionally
And even though it was me who decided that no more
And I didn't get tired of swearing to you
That there won't be a second part
It costs me so much to forget you
It costs me so much to forget you
It costs me so much
And even though it was me who decided that no more
And I didn't get tired of swearing to you
That there won't be a second part
It costs me so much to forget you
It costs me so much to forget you
It costs me so much to forget you
It costs me so much
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SONG MEANING

“Me Cuesta Tanto Olvidarte” is a bittersweet pop gem in which the Spanish band Mecano paints the struggle of trying to move on from a past love. The singer feels suspended “between the sky and the ground,” caught in a swirl of memories that won’t let go. On the outside, they present a perfect smile – “a toothpaste-ad face” – yet inside, their thoughts are bald from overthinking. Every recollection of the ex reveals how many “15,000 charms” there are to erase, turning the act of forgetting into a full-time job.

What makes the song so relatable is its honest contradiction: the narrator chose to end the relationship, but letting go still hurts. They repeat promises that there will be “no second part,” only to admit that everyday tasks feel robotic without their former partner. The catchy melody hides a confession we all understand – breaking up may be rational, but the heart takes its own slow path to heal, and for Mecano that path is paved with nostalgic hooks you’ll be humming long after the song ends.

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