Ausencia – Bilingual Lyrics Spanish/English

• By: Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe
• Album: Cosa Nuestra

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the passionate world of Salsa with 'Ausencia.' This song is a perfect resource for learning Spanish vocabulary related to emotions, longing, and heartache, while experiencing the legendary vocal delivery of Héctor Lavoe, the 'singer of singers.'

[English]

Another chapter of my life has ended

The woman I loved is gone from me today

Waiting night and day, but she can't make up her mind to return

But I know she'll come back

And if she doesn't, I will die of sorrow

What did I do to make you leave?

I don't know if with time

This wound will heal

There was no reason to end it

I have tried to forget her

Yet, I only remember her more

Don't be surprised if you see a man crying

...

Your absence doesn't matter, I keep on waiting for you

Your absence doesn't matter, I keep on waiting for you

The day you left, I was left crying in sadness

Oh, come back, I beg you, because for your love, I swear, I'm killing myself

Your absence doesn't matter, I keep on waiting for you

Your absence doesn't matter, I keep on waiting for you

Eh, I saw a man crying before a mirror for a love that denied him heaven

And I was shocked, a chill ran through me when I saw my own face in the mirror

...

Your absence doesn't matter, I keep on waiting for you

Your absence doesn't matter, I keep on waiting for you

Eh, and I will keep on waiting until the day I die

If God takes away the moon, I won't feel too bad, but if He takes you away, He takes my stars too

Your absence doesn't matter, I keep on waiting for you

Your absence doesn't matter, I keep on waiting for you

Listen, twenty years is nothing if you like to crack a coconut

I swear to you on my mother's life, it's a serious thing, if you don't come back I'm going to go crazy

Your absence doesn't matter, I keep on waiting for you

Your absence doesn't matter, I keep on waiting for you

...

[Spanish]

Ha terminado otro capítulo en mi vida

La mujer que amaba, hoy se me fue

Esperando noche y día, y no se decide a volver

Pero yo sé que volverá

Y si no, de penas moriré

¿Qué yo he hecho que te hizo partir?

No sé si con el tiempo

Esta herida se sanará

No hubo motivo para terminar

La he tratado de olvidar

Mas sin embargo la recuerdo más

No se asombren si ven a un hombre llorar

No importa tu ausencia, te sigo esperando

No importa tu ausencia, te sigo esperando

El día en que tú te fuistes, triste me quedé llorando

Ay, regresa, te lo pido, que por tu amor, te juro, me estoy matando

No importa tu ausencia, te sigo esperando

No importa tu ausencia, te sigo esperando

Eh, yo vi llorar a un hombre ante un espejo por un amor que le negara el cielo

Y asombrado me dio un escalofrío al ver en el espejo el rostro mío

No importa tu ausencia, te sigo esperando

No importa tu ausencia, te sigo esperando

Eh, y yo seguiré esperando hasta el día en que me muera

Si Dios me quita la luna, no me siento malo, pero si me lleva a ti me lleva las estrellas

No importa tu ausencia, te sigo esperando

No importa tu ausencia, te sigo esperando

Oye, veinte años no son nada si te gusta romper un coco

Por mi madre yo te juro a ti, cosa buena, que si no vuelves yo me voy a volver loco

No importa tu ausencia, te sigo esperando

No importa tu ausencia, te sigo esperando

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
ausencia au-SEN-sya B2	noun - Absence
terminado ter-mi-NA-do A2	verb - Finished
capítulo ka-PI-tu-lo B1	noun - Chapter
herida e-RI-da B1	noun - Wound / Injury
sanará sa-na-RA B2	verb - Will heal
olvidar ol-bi-DAR A2	verb - To forget
asombren a-SOM-bren B2	verb - To be astonished
llorar yo-RAR A2	verb - To cry
espejo es-PE-ho A2	noun - Mirror
escalofrío es-ka-lo-FRI-o C1	noun - Shiver / Chill
rostro ROS-tro B2	noun - Face
estrellas es-TRE-yas A2	noun - Stars
loco LO-ko A2	adjective - Crazy
motivo mo-TI-bo B1	noun - Motive / Reason
juro HU-ro B2	verb - To swear

Key Grammar Structures

• Ha terminado otro capítulo en mi vida

  ➔ Present Perfect

  ➔ Used "ha terminado" to describe an action completed in the recent past with present relevance.

• ¿Qué yo he hecho que te hizo partir?

  ➔ Preterite (Indefinite Past)

  ➔ The verb "hizo" is the third-person singular preterite of "hacer", used for a specific completed event.

• No sé si con el tiempo esta herida se sanará

  ➔ Future Simple (Hypothesis)

  ➔ "se sanará" expresses a future possibility or uncertainty regarding the healing of the wound.

• No se asombren si ven a un hombre llorar

  ➔ Formal Imperative (Subjunctive-based)

  ➔ "no se asombren" uses the negative formal imperative (ustedes form) to address the public.

• El día en que tú te fuistes, triste me quedé llorando

  ➔ Gerund (Present Participle)

  ➔ "llorando" acts as an adverbial modifier indicating the state in which the subject remained.

• Y yo seguiré esperando hasta el día en que me muera

  ➔ Subjunctive Mood (Temporal clause)

  ➔ "muera" is in the subjunctive because it refers to a future, uncertain event in a time clause.

• Si Dios me quita la luna, no me siento malo

  ➔ First Conditional

  ➔ The "Si" clause presents a real/possible condition, followed by the indicative in the result clause.

• Si no vuelves yo me voy a volver loco

  ➔ Periphrastic Future ("ir a" + infinitive)

  ➔ "voy a volver" uses the construction "ir + a + infinitive" to express a certain immediate future action.