LA MEMORIA Lyrics in English Jessie Reyez

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Verse 1

This love left me deaf

The advice of my mother doesn't reach me, doesn't reach me

And I can't wait

Lit: And I don't see the hour

To leave this neighborhood desperate with sorrow

I don't escape your memory

You appear in my songs

Even if I don't say your name

Even if I replace you with another

Or: Even if I replace you with someone else

Because you were the one who treated me badly

But you want excuses

Because you were the one who treated me badly

What if I treated you the same

Chorus 1

You need to fall in love with a b*tch

You need to lose a war

You need to find a twin

Who breaks your heart

Who leaves you in your sorrow

That way you suddenly learn

Verse 2

I don't escape your memory

You appear in my songs

Even if I don't say your name

Even if I replace you with another

Because you were the one who treated me badly

But you want excuses

Because you were the one who treated me badly

What if I treated you the same

Chorus 2

You need to fall in love with a b*tch

You need to lose a war

You need to find a twin

Who breaks your heart

Who leaves you in your sorrow

That way you suddenly learn

Outro

When the red is almost black

Outro

And the rose is almost dead

Outro

That is my favorite color

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SONG MEANING

In “LA MEMORIA,” Canadian-Colombian powerhouse Jessie Reyez turns a bruised heart into an R&B confessional full of fire and wit. She sings of a love so toxic it drowns out her mother’s warnings and makes her desperate to leave her old neighborhood. No matter how hard she tries to replace her ex in her lyrics, his memory keeps crashing the party, reminding us how stubborn pain can be.

Instead of wallowing, Jessie flips the script with savage humor. She wishes her ex the very lessons he forced on her: fall for a “perra,” lose a war, meet a twin soul who shatters him the way he shattered her. The closing image—red fading to black, a rose almost dead—reveals her favorite color: the beauty found in darkness. The result is a cathartic anthem that blends Spanish and English, vulnerability and vengeance, proving that a broken heart can still write a killer hook.

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