Comida Lyrics in English by No te va Gustar, Johnny Hooker
Salida usually means “exit” or “way out,” but it can also refer to going out or an outing. In the song, “queremos salida para cualquier parte” expresses a desire for freedom, escape, and the chance to go anywhere, making this everyday word feel vivid and empowering.
This is a song that starts with a riddle. "Bebida es agua, comida es pasto" [Drink is water, food is grass], and then it turns the question on you: "¿Y vos tenés sed de qué?" [And what are you thirsty for?]. Water and grass keep a body alive, and that's about it. The song wants to know what you're actually hungry for.
The answer comes back as a list, chanted like a protest: "Queremos no solo comida" [We don't want just food], "Queremos comida diversión y arte" [We want food, fun and art], "Queremos salir, salir a cualquier parte" [We want to go out, go out anywhere]. Johnny Hooker answers in Portuguese with lines like "A gente não quer só comida" [We don't want only food], so the two languages keep trading the same demand back and forth. It gets blunter as it goes: "Queremos no solo sexo" [We don't want only sex], then money, then happiness, ending on "Lo queremos todo y no por la mitad" [We want it all, not by half].
Learner notes: vos tenés is the Rioplatense way of saying tú tienes (you have), which you'll hear all over Uruguay and Argentina. Tener sed de and tener hambre de (to be thirsty for, to be hungry for) work in Spanish just like in English, for things you crave that aren't food. Hacer el amor means to make love, and a cualquier parte means anywhere at all. The Portuguese a gente literally means "the people" but is everyday Brazilian for "we".
