Crímenes Perfectos
Fito Páez Lyrics

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¿sentiste alguna vez
lo que es tener, el corazon roto?
¿sentiste a los asuntos pendientes
volver?, hasta volverte
muy loco,

si resulta que si
si podras entender lo qe me pasa

a mi esta noche,
ella no va a volver y la pena
me empieza a crecer,
adentro,
la moneda cayo por el lado
de la soledad.

todo lo qe termina,
termina mal,
poco a poco
y si no termina,
se contamina mal,
y esto se cubre de polvo

me parece que soy
de la quinta que vio
el mundial ´78
me toco crecer viendo a mi alrededor
paranoia y dolor,
la moneda cayo por el lado
de la soledad otra vez
otra vez

no me lastimes
con tus crimenes perfectos
mientras la gente indiferente se da cuenta
de vez en cuando
solamente sale afuera
la peor manera

si resulta qe si
si podras entender lo qe me pasa
a mi esta noche
ella no va a volver y la pena
me empieza a crecer
adentro,
la moneda cayo por el lado
de la soledad
y el dolor

la moneda cayo por el lado
de la soledad
la moneda cayo por el lado
de la soledad
otra vez
la moneda cayo por el lado
de la soledad...

la moneda cayo por el lado
de la soledad

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Fito Páez's Crímenes Perfectos depict the heart-wrenching feeling of a broken heart and the emptiness that comes with it. The singer asks if the listener has ever experienced a broken heart and the feeling of pending affairs haunting them until they become crazy. He then goes on to say that if the listener understands what he is going through tonight, it is because the woman he loved will not be coming back, and the pain is steadily growing inside him.

Páez seems to suggest that endings are not good, and they often lead to contamination from the memories of the past. He compares this contamination to dust that collects over time. Páez appears to reflect on his generation's trauma, growing up in a time of paranoia and pain. He says that the coin of life has fallen on the side of solitude, causing him immense pain.

Finally, the singer pleads with the listener not to hurt him with their perfect plan of ending things while everyone else is indifferent, and only the worst way out seems apparent.

Overall, Crímenes Perfectos is a melancholic and emotionally charged song that captures a sense of heartbreak, solitude, and pain that often comes with lost love.

Line by Line Meaning

¿sentiste alguna vez lo que es tener, el corazon roto?
Have you ever felt what it's like to have a broken heart?

¿sentiste a los asuntos pendientes volver?, hasta volverte muy loco,
Have you ever felt the pending issues coming back until they drive you crazy,

si resulta que si si podras entender lo qe me pasa a mi esta noche,
If it happens that you can understand what's going on with me tonight,

ella no va a volver y la pena me empieza a crecer adentro,
She's not coming back, and the sorrow is growing inside,

la moneda cayo por el lado de la soledad.
The coin flipped to the loneliness side.

todo lo qe termina, termina mal, poco a poco
Everything that ends, ends badly, little by little,

y si no termina, se contamina mal, y esto se cubre de polvo,
And if it doesn't end, it gets contaminated, and it gets covered in dust,

me parece que soy de la quinta que vio el mundial ´78,
It seems to me that I'm from the generation that witnessed the '78 World Cup,

me toco crecer viendo a mi alrededor paranoia y dolor,
I grew up around paranoia and pain,

la moneda cayo por el lado de la soledad otra vez, otra vez,
The coin flipped to the loneliness side again, again,

no me lastimes con tus crimenes perfectos,
Don't hurt me with your perfect crimes,

mientras la gente indiferente se da cuenta de vez en cuando solamente sale afuera, la peor manera,
While the indifferent people realize from time to time, in the worst way possible,

y el dolor, la moneda cayo por el lado de la soledad
And the pain, the coin flipped to the loneliness side

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