El Amor

The story behind

Fito Páez recorded a song called El amor después del amor that lasts five minutes and ten seconds. The lyrics talk about an end to love, but not of a violent breakup. It's more of a gentle farewell, as if one is leaving a place that no longer wants to visit. The singer's voice moves between sadness and calmness, as if the desire to move forward were mixed with the fear of forgetting. The song doesn't have a clear story, but it does have a feeling: the weight of what is ending and the certainty that it will never return. It's a song that can be touched in a moment of silence, when what remains is the memory and the space it leaves.