Tocando Fondo Lyrics in English Ricardo Arjona

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Verse 1

I stuck your photo on the wardrobe

So that I feel that you're here

I settled in the month of January

Outside I think it's April

I don't give a damn about the news

Anyway they never talk about me

I made a country out of this hole

Since you're not here

This is the national anthem

And for a flag I've got your brown thong

I confess that I'm having a hard time

And I don't know how I can stay on my feet

Chorus 1

And I'm still here hitting rock bottom

Discovering everything that we lacked

Blaming myself for everything

Melting the little air that I had left

And I'm still here hitting rock bottom

From my country that is this fifth floor

From your voluntary exile

Nostalgia is still the prime minister

Verse 2

Everything is intact in my country

Just like you left it

The flowers on the wallpaper

The copy of the Dalí you forgot

It's needless to say that 'I miss you'

And the rest of the corny stuff

Don't insist on what hurts

That's another phrase of yours

And even though I've paid the taxes

Of this bankruptcy that is living without you

I have no budget left

For another winter without you here

Chorus 2

And I'm still here hitting rock bottom

Discovering everything that we lacked

Blaming myself for everything

Melting the little air that I had left

And I'm still here hitting rock bottom

From my country that is this fifth floor

From your voluntary exile

Nostalgia is still the prime minister

Chorus 3

And I'm still here hitting rock bottom

Discovering everything that we lacked

Blaming myself for everything

Melting the little air that I had left

And I'm still here hitting rock bottom

From my country that is this fifth floor

From your voluntary exile

Nostalgia is still the prime minister

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SONG MEANING

Tocando Fondo invites us into the bittersweet world of a man who decides his broken heart deserves its own country. Stuck on the fifth floor, he turns his apartment into a private nation where your photo rules from the wardrobe, your brown underwear flutters like a quirky flag and the calendar has frozen in January even though April knocks outside. News broadcasts, real seasons and outside opinions no longer matter; everything revolves around the absence of the person he loves.

Within this tiny republic, Ricardo Arjona blends humor and anguish: sadness becomes a tax, Nostalgia is the prime minister and the national anthem is a confession of having hit rock bottom. As he sifts through memories and guilt, he melts what little air is left and realizes how much was missing in the relationship. The song’s playful metaphors and raw honesty remind us how heartbreak can shrink the world to four walls yet still feel larger than life.

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Ricardo Arjona Tocando Fondo Lyrics