Tristeza Lyrics in English Silvana Estrada

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Tristeza by Silvana Estrada from Spanish to English.
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Sadness asked
How much longer must we wait
So that you understand
That I sing to cry?
I ask you for a sigh
That eases the verb to love
And a cautious kiss
That saves me from missing
That one who's no longer here
And you who don't leave
I ask you once more
Sadness, leave me in peace
I can't remember anymore
How many kisses must we give
For the wind
That it bursts from dancing
If one day I said
That love was going to save me
Sadness, I ask you
Don't change my truth
Of that one who's no longer here
And you who don't leave
I ask you once more
Sadness, leave me in peace
Sadness, leave me in peace
Sadness, leave me in peace
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SONG MEANING

Silvana Estrada turns sadness into a character we can almost see. In Tristeza she talks directly to her own melancholy, asking it how long it plans to stick around and bargaining for small comforts: a sigh to soothe the verb amar and a careful kiss to ease the weight of missing someone who is gone. By personifying her sorrow, she turns an abstract feeling into a dialogue full of poetic imagery, letting us feel the push-and-pull between memories of lost love and the stubborn presence of pain that refuses to leave.

At its heart, the song is a gentle plea for emotional freedom. Estrada admits she once believed love would save her, yet now she begs sadness not to rewrite that truth. Each repeated line “Tristeza, déjame en paz” (Sadness, leave me in peace) is both a lament and a mantra, revealing resilience beneath the grief. The track becomes a tender lesson in self-compassion: acknowledge the hurt, speak to it, then kindly ask it to step aside so life, music, and dancing wind can flow again.

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