Como Un Cuento Lyrics in English by No Te Va Gustar
Baldear literally means "to mop" or "to wash down" with a bucket of water. It's a common household verb, but its use in this song is quite unexpected and metaphorical.
The lyric "Nunca te vi baldear el corazón" (I never saw you mop your heart) creates a striking image. It suggests a deep emotional cleansing or purification that the singer has not witnessed in the subject, making it a unique and thought-provoking choice of word in a lyrical context.
This is a Divididos song, off the Argentine band's 2000 album Narigón del siglo. No Te Va Gustar recorded their version live in Uruguay in 2024 for their Portal Sessions EP, as a tribute to the band.
The lyric watches a country come apart from behind glass. "Como un cuento / Veo la gente caer" (Like a story / I see the people falling), set "En esa lluvia que lavó este mar" (In that rain that cleansed this sea), as if the damage were already washed and finished. The chorus lands its accusation as a joke about Argentine music: "Un Chalchalero no es un Rolling Stone" (A Chalchalero is not a Rolling Stone). Los Chalchaleros played folk from the northern provinces and the Rolling Stones did not, so treating the two as interchangeable is the confusion the singer keeps running into. "Debe haber un gran error" (There must be a big mistake), he decides, and then admits "Yo no lo sé" (I don't know). The middle verse names what he cannot place: "De secretos y clandestinidad" (Of secrets and a clandestine life), a double life, and "Y una bala con visa en La Paz" (And a bullet with a visa in La Paz), violence that travels on paperwork.
