What is the song about?
The song is a series of questions about life experiences: traveling far away, watching the sunrise, falling in love, winning a game, making a promise, or facing fear. The voice answers by recounting what they have lived through. In the end, the singer takes a salto hacia lo desconocido (leap into the unknown), steps out of what is familiar, and discovers they can handle anything: «Lo he vivido todo».
Useful words and expressions
- alguna vez: ever, at some point in life. Used to ask about experiences: ¿Alguna vez has visto el mar?
- el amanecer: sunrise, the moment when the sun comes up.
- los consejos: advice or recommendations given to you by another person. Unos sabios consejos means wise advice.
- volver a nacer: to be born again, to start over and feel like a new person. Volver a + infinitive means to do something again.
- tocar el cielo: to touch the sky; to feel enormous happiness.
- sin temor: without fear. Temor is a more formal word than miedo.
- fuera de lo común: out of the ordinary, special, unusual.
- la chispa: the spark, a small flash of fire; here, excitement or energy.
- dar lo mejor (de uno mismo): to give one's best, to make the maximum effort.
- la voz interior: the inner voice; what a person feels or thinks deep down.
- dar un salto hacia lo desconocido: to take a leap into the unknown, to dare to do something new.
- enfrentar el miedo: to face fear, not running away from what scares you. You can also say enfrentarse al miedo.
- sobrevivir: to survive, to stay alive or pull through after something difficult.
Grammar
El pretérito perfecto (The present perfect)
Almost the entire song uses the pretérito perfecto: the verb haber in the present tense + the past participle.| Person | haber | participle |
|---|---|---|
| yo | he | viajado, vivido |
| tú | has | visto, sentido |
| él / ella | ha | salido |
Regular participles end in -ado (viajar → viajado) or -ido (vivir → vivido). Some are irregular: ver → visto, hacer → hecho.
This tense is often used to talk about experiences without saying when they happened: ¿Alguna vez has viajado muy lejos? — Yo he estado allí.
Note: in much of Latin America, the simple past (pretérito indefinido) is more common for these questions: ¿Alguna vez viajaste muy lejos? Both forms are correct.
Short answers
- Sí, lo he hecho. → lo replaces the action from the question.
- No lo he hecho aún. → aún means