‘A Medio Vivir’ by Ricky Martin and Carin León: Meaning and Lyrics in English

Share:

Ricky Martin and Carin León have released ‘A Medio Vivir,’ a powerful ballad that captures the emptiness and incompleteness left after a breakup. Life goes on, but in the song it feels unfinished—like living and feeling only halfway. The lyrics recall that first intimate moment (“that first day we saw each other naked”) as if it happened just yesterday.

Even with so much time gone by, they still wait in the same place, hoping their loved one might return. Without them, everything feels “half-done”—life, emotions, even something as vital as breathing (“without you, I breathe with only one lung”). At one point, they even admit to calling or reaching out, just to check if the other person feels the same need to reconnect.

Why it Hurts? It isn’t only about missing someone—it’s about how their absence splits life in two. They can’t move forward completely, trapped between the memory of what once was and the ache of what’s missing.

‘A Medio Vivir’ is, at its core, a heartbreaking ballad about incompleteness. When someone you love is gone, you keep moving through life, but never fully—always at “half.”

‘A Medio Vivir’ English Lyrics

[Verse 1]

After so much time has passed
It may sound unbelievable to you
But I still haven’t gotten used to it
It feels like it was only yesterday

That first day we saw each other naked
And I always thought
Life must go on
But without you
Everything stayed halfway
Half-living
Half-feeling
And life passes me by
And I can’t find a way out without you

[Verse 2]

After so much time has passed
I still wait for you, like always
In the same place
And yet I can still feel
Your chest pressed against mine
And your heartbeat
And every time
It gets harder for me each time
Because without you
Everything stayed halfway

[Chorus]

Half-living
Half-feeling
And life passes me by
And I can’t find a way out without you
Half-living
Half-feeling
And life passes me by
And I can’t find a way out without you

[Bridge]

We’ve been talking for a long time
And I won’t bore you anymore
With my speech
I only called you to know
If by any chance you too
Needed it

It doesn’t hurt
To talk from time to time
It doesn’t hurt

[Outro / Final Chorus]

Because without you
I breathe with only one lung
Because without you
Everything stayed halfway
Half-living, half-living