"Ayer" is DELLAFUENTE looking back at how fast it all went. He opens with a strange double feeling: "Yo lo noto como que se está acabando" [I feel like it's ending] while he is "siempre sintiéndome empezando" [always feeling like I'm just starting]. What keeps him steady is small and specific: "Miro a mis niña' por teléfono y sonríen" [I look at my girls on the phone and they smile]. He even drops a football joke, "Seguimos en el medio, como Verratti" [we're still in the middle, like Verratti], a nod to the Italian midfielder Marco Verratti.
The chorus is the heart of it: "Como se pasa el tiempo, parece que fue ayer" [how time flies, it seems like it was yesterday], remembering the night "cuando nos conocimo'" [when we met] "entre humo" [through the smoke]. The second verse is full of Andalusian dropped letters, complicao', empezao', iluminao', which are just complicado, empezado and iluminado. My favourite line is "Uno se hace, no se nace iluminao'" [you become enlightened, you're not born that way], and the stubborn optimism of "Y si viene tormenta hacemos lo mismo pero con lluvia" [and if a storm comes we do the same thing, just in the rain].