Periódico De Ayer

The speaker describes a love that once felt important but has become irrelevant. At first, the relationship is exciting and widely noticed; later, its story is old news. The repeated question about why anyone would read yesterday’s paper gives the song a firm, dismissive mood, though some lines suggest the past still remains in the speaker’s memory.

The newspaper is the central image: the romance becomes a headline, then forgotten news. This suggests that feelings and public attention can fade quickly. The speaker also says the former lover’s name is kept in an “album of forgetting,” an unusual image that makes remembering part of letting go. Later, the person is called “a paper soul,” which may suggest fragility or a lack of emotional depth. The phrase that paper can “stand anything” hints that written accounts—or people’s claims—can contain whatever someone chooses to put there.

The speaker sounds confident and even cruel, telling the former lover to leave and saying the relationship is no longer worth revisiting. Yet the repeated references to the past imply that the breakup still has emotional weight. The song may be about genuine detachment, but its sharpness could also hide hurt or resentment; the lyrics do not settle that question.