Un día en el mundo
Vetusta Morla Lyrics

The lyrics of Vetusta Morla's Un día en el mundo paint a bleak picture of society and its many cages. During the day, people are trapped in cages made of concrete, imitating the behavior of lions they have seen in captivity. At night, they catch suffocated hearts and fire off shots in their honor, a metaphor for the emptiness and violence that fill our lives. The singer looks happy, but that's just because the matrix of modern life has brainwashed him into believing that consumption and production are good for him – despite the blood on his nose.

The second verse takes us to a twisted version of paradise, where people dilate their pupils by gazing at neon-lit sirens and swear by God's name while blaspheming. They promise things to their loved ones and grind their bodies down to dust in pursuit of cardboard dreams. This is all just part of the game, a game that has been played for so long that the reason why it was started in the first place has been long forgotten. In the chorus, the singer repeats that he's happy and has been left like that by the game, which has made him dress up, seduce, and deceive for someone else's benefit. Although he doesn't know where the rumor that saw them born went, he does know that the price for the cages that trap them was paid by the beast-tamer.

Overall, the song is an indictment of the modern world's often shallow and hypocritical values. The metaphor of lions in concrete cages is a potent symbol of how we are all trapped in some form of prison, be it corporate 9-to-5 jobs, consumer culture, or societal norms. The singer's happiness is ironic, underscoring how we have lost sight of what truly matters and what it means to be truly free. The chorus is particularly powerful in its repetition, emphasizing how we are all trapped in the same cycle, unable to break free or find our way back to the world before cages.