“Ayer” invites us into a dream-world romance where Luis Miguel, the beloved Puerto Rican-Mexican crooner, tastes perfect love only to wake up empty-handed. Throughout the lyrics he relives a night of intense passion and promises—loyalty sworn with no witnesses, souls intertwined—until the cruel moment he realizes it all happened “ayer,” yesterday, inside a dream.
The song captures that bittersweet mix of euphoria and heartbreak that comes from loving someone who exists only in memory or imagination. It reminds listeners how powerful a single dream can be: for a few fleeting hours it can feel like forever, yet when morning comes, we are left aching with the knowledge that reality has reclaimed the magic.