Volver Lyrics in English Estrella Morente

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Volver by Estrella Morente from Spanish to English.

I guess the flicker

Of the lights that in the distance

Are marking my return

They're the same ones that lit

With their pale reflections

Deep hours of pain

And though I didn't want the return

One always goes back to the first love

The old street where the echo said

Yours is her life, yours is her love

Under the mocking gaze of the stars

That with indifference today see me come back

To return

With my withered brow

The snows of time silvered my temples

To feel

That life is a breath

That twenty years is nothing

That feverish the gaze, wandering in the shadows

Looks for you and calls your name

To live

With the soul clinging

To a sweet memory

That I weep again

I fear the encounter

With the past that returns

To confront my life

I fear the nights

That crowded with memories

Chain my dreaming

But the traveler that flees

Sooner or later stops his walking

And although oblivion, that destroys everything

Has killed my old dream

I keep hidden a humble hope

That is all the fortune of my heart

To return

With my withered brow

The snows of time silvered my temples

To feel

That life is a breath

That twenty years is nothing

That feverish the gaze, wandering in the shadows

Looks for you and calls your name

To live

With the soul clinging

To a sweet memory

That I weep again

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SONG MEANING

Imagine wandering back into your hometown after decades away, the streetlights blinking in the distance like tiny beacons whispering welcome back. That is the world of “Volver”: a soul-stirring tango that Estrella Morente transforms into pure flamenco emotion. The singer steps onto that "vieja calle" with silver in her hair, realizing that life is only a quick breath and that twenty years vanish in a heartbeat. Every shadowed corner still murmurs the name of a first love, proving that some memories cling tighter than time itself.

Yet this return is more than simple nostalgia. It is a bittersweet duel between hope and fear: hope in the "humble little dream" she still hides in her heart, and fear of meeting old ghosts that can shackle her nights. Morente’s voice captures both the trembling vulnerability of facing the past and the unbreakable pull of home. In the end, “Volver” celebrates how every traveler, no matter how far they flee, must eventually pause, look back, and feel that mix of sorrow, love, and renewed courage that only coming home can deliver.

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Estrella Morente Volver Lyrics