Cuando pase el temblor

"Cuando pase el temblor"
Single by Soda Stereo
from the album Nada personal
Released	October 1985
Format	cassette, CD
Genre	Rock, New Wave
Length	3:49
Label	Sony Music
Writer(s)	Gustavo Cerati
Soda Stereo singles chronology
"Nada personal" "Cuando pase el temblor" (1985) "Juego de seducción"

"Cuando pase el temblor" (Spanish for "After the earthquake passes") is a rock song by Argentine rock band Soda Stereo featured as the second track on the 1985 Nada personal album. After being released in October 1985, "Cuando pase el temblor" became one of Soda Stereo's better known songs together with "De música ligera". "Cuando pase el temblor" is one of Soda Stereo's few songs to feature elements of Andean music, in this case panflutes.

Lyrics

The lyrics addressed metaphorically, to crack cocaine and its effects. This becomes very clear with examples like when he speaks of "walking on rocks" (the crack cocaine have a form of rock) and "feel a tremor in his body" (a symptom).