Desapariciones Lyrics in English by Maná
Desaparecidos refers to people who have been forcibly abducted or
This song tells several different stories, each one a desperate search for a missing person. It opens with a woman asking, "Que alguien me diga si ha visto a mi esposo" (Someone tell me if you've seen my husband), and goes on to list other cases: a sister named Altagracia who vanished between work and school, and a pre-med student named Agustín who was detained by an unknown "fuerza" (force). The song doesn't offer any easy answers or happy endings. Instead, the chorus asks a series of painful questions about the people who disappear.
The song asks, "¿A dónde van los desaparecidos?" (Where do the disappeared go?), and gives a grim suggestion: "Busca en el agua y en los matorrales" (Look in the water and in the bushes). It also describes a night full of violence—explosions, gunshots, and screams. The most chilling detail might be why no one saw anything: "Estaban dando la telenovela / Por eso nadie miró pa'fuera" (The soap opera was on / That's why nobody looked outside). It's a powerful song about a very serious topic in Latin American history, told through the voices of the families left behind.
