BOKeTE Lyrics in English by Bad Bunny

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Verse 1

6 p.m. by the river

Looking into each other’s hearts

Fashions fading away

Questions without answers

My feelings change like seasons

And even though in Puerto Rico it's summer all the time

I'm feeling cold listening to these songs

Thinking of you, but don't get excited

Or: Thinking about you, but don't get your hopes up

Because I'm not going to write to you

Which of us is going to suffer more? I don't know

But hopefully it's you, hopefully it's you

I think it's going to be you

Lit: For me, it's going to be you / From my point of view, it will be you

Chorus 1

I don't even want to compete anymore

You are pretty, but you like to lie

Stay on your trip, 'cause when you land

Or: Keep living in your fantasy...

Nobody's going to applaud

One day you're going to get old

You're going to look back and you're going to regret it

That the most real thing that you've had in your life

You let it go

Verse 2

You're a pothole in Puerto Rico

Or: You're just another pothole (annoyance) in Puerto Rico

That's why I avoid you

There are no more poems for you

This is the last one that I write

Sometimes the flashbacks hit me

You and me f*cking aggressively

I was going to take you to Mayagüez

And you didn't even make it to Arecibo

The invitation to the beach expired

Nobody ever saw the best of us

Or maybe it was that life lied to us

And we had to say goodbye

And live like I was living before meeting you

Seeing photos of you

Testing if I'm strong

The waves and the wind, the dogs and luck

I was afraid of losing you

But not more than death

I'm alive now

Thank God, I'm alive, that's what matters

I've fallen in love 515 times, and with you it's 516

So that's nothing new

It's time to move on, ignore and forget

And later on, if we have to fall in love again

We'll fall in love again

You know that I like being like this, in love, but

Chorus 2

I don't even want to compete anymore

You are pretty, but you like to lie

Stay on your trip, 'cause when you land

Nobody's going to applaud

One day you're going to get old

You're going to look back and you're going to regret it

That the most real thing that you've had in your life

You let it go

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pichar — to ignore / to brush off

Pichar is a very common Puerto Rican slang word that means 'to ignore' or 'to brush someone off'. It's an essential piece of Caribbean Spanish vocabulary and a great word to know if you love Bad Bunny's music.

Interestingly, it's derived from the English verb 'to pitch' (like in baseball), but the meaning has evolved completely! In the song, he sings "Toca seguir, pichar y olvidar" (It's time to move on, ignore, and forget), showing his resolve to leave the past behind.

Bad Bunny hits us with a breakup track that trades big dramatic tears for petty honesty and local Puerto Rican humor. Even though it is always warm back home, he starts off sitting by the river at 6 PM feeling freezing cold: "Y aunque en PR todo el tiempo es verano, estoy pasando frío escuchando estas canciones" [And even though it's always summer in Puerto Rico, I'm freezing listening to these songs]. He wonders which of them will suffer more, bluntly admits "ojalá que seas tú" [I hope it's you], and decides he is done competing for someone who looks good but tells lies.

The real punchline is the title itself. A boquete is a pothole, and Bad Bunny tells his ex: "Tú eres un boquete en PR, por eso es que te esquivo" [You're a pothole in Puerto Rico, that's why I dodge you]. He also drops a funny geographic burn about a trip that fell apart way too early: "Te iba a llevar pa' Maya y no llegaste ni a Arecibo" [I was going to take you to Mayagüez and you didn't even make it to Arecibo]. By the end, he reminds himself that he has fallen in love 516 times before, so he will just pichar (ignore it / brush it off) and move on to the next one.

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