Recuerdo Crónico Lyrics in English Sergio Dalma

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Recuerdo Crónico by Sergio Dalma from Spanish to English.
The gentle beat of raindrops on the face
Prelude to being out of bed all night
Anxious for you, drunk on living
Tired of seeing doors right in front of my nose
Defeated with no place to go
Looking for you against myself
Adam's rib, a future that stayed in the past
Going in to kill, words with sawed-off cannons
Wanting to wake up
That which when dreaming turns fiction into reality
In the very place where the end begins
I put everything into forgetting
Messing up ways of living
I follow your shadow without calm all over Madrid
I counterattack and the heart counterattacks
Trace that need leaves
Highway heading toward nowhere
Chronic memory
Sunlit winter, what a shame of a storm in summer
No victor in this war that has already ended
Breaking down crying keeps me from taking off
Maybe in the morning the storm will ease
Maybe when I leave you'll want to find me
Chronic and deadly memory
Messing up ways of living
I follow your shadow without calm all over Madrid
I counterattack and the heart counterattacks
Trace that need leaves
Highway heading toward nowhere
Chronic memory
Chronic memory
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SONG MEANING

Recuerdo Crónico paints the picture of a long, rainy night wandering the streets of Madrid, where every raindrop taps out the rhythm of a love that refuses to fade. The singer is “borracho de vivir”—drunk on life—yet exhausted from closing doors and empty rooms. He chases an unforgettable shadow, stumbling through memories that feel as real as the asphalt beneath his feet. Beneath the neon glow, he wages a private war against heartbreak, firing off “words with sawed-off cannons” in a futile attempt to silence the echo of an all-consuming love.

This song is a poetic chronicle of post-breakup restlessness: the battle between wanting to forget and needing to remember. Every verse is a tug-of-war between hope and resignation—“autopista rumbo hacia ningún lugar,” a highway to nowhere, loops endlessly in his mind. Yet in the eye of the storm, Dalma hints at a fragile optimism: maybe the tempest will calm by morning; maybe once he is gone, she will feel the same ache. Until then, the singer carries his recuerdo crónico, a chronic memory that refuses to let him go, turning Madrid’s streets into a living, breathing diary of love, loss, and lingering desire.

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