“Lejos” conveys a deep yearning for escape and belonging. With lines like “What am I doing here? Paying to live… Far from where I was born,” the song captures the frustration of feeling out of place and the urge to reconnect with one’s identity.

What does it mean to escape, to stay, or to be carried away by inertia toward other geographies? What does it mean to travel and live abroad (outside of where, of whom); what does it mean to abandon what belongs to you?, only to reconstruct it in…