Ella usó mi cabeza como un revólver

The story behind

Soda Stereo released this song in 1995, as the first track of the album *Sueño Stereo*. The lyrics are hard, direct, and stick in your head. It talks about a relationship that breaks up, about what you do for love, and how in the end everything ends up in the void. The title phrase, «she used my head like a revolver», is the one that sticks the most. It's not a gesture of love, but of abuse, of things done without thinking, without shame. The singer says he acted «cowardly, but without shame», which shows a weariness, a lack of strength to face what happened. The song has a slow, melancholic rhythm, and a sound that mixes strings, violins, viola and violoncello. It's an enveloping sound, almost like a cloud, that contrasts with the message of the lyrics. The song became famous for its complexity, for how it's built, for how it lets you feel. People listen to it, repeat it, and in the end, as the ending says, «time passes and now I think the void is a normal place».