Gualberto Ibarreto has participated as special guest in many albums of other well known singers and groups from Venezuela and United States, such as Serenata Guayanesa, Cecilia Todd, Huáscar Barradas, Juan Carlos Salazar, El Cuarteto, Metallica, Gustavo Cerati among many others.
Presagio
Gualberto Ibarreto Lyrics
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lamentado tu partida
era gaviota perdida
como perdido es tu amor
El ave que ayer voló
presagiando tu partida
era gaviota perdida
Tu amor que fue
el agüita de mi calor
el azúcar de café
el consuelo de mi dolor
Tu amor que fue
la salida del mismo sol
la frutica demás dulzor
el jardín de mi florecer
Tu amor que fue
el agüita de calor
el azúcar de mi café
el consuelo de mi dolor
El ave que ayer volo
presagiando tu partida
era gaviota perdida
como perdido es tu amor
El ave que ayer volo
lamentado de su herida
era gaviota perdida
como perdido es tu amor.
In Gualberto Ibarreto's song Presagio, the singer uses powerful imagery of a lost seagull to represent the loss and sorrow felt from a lover's departure. The first stanza depicts the bird lamenting the departure of the singer's love, and even though the bird is lost, it seemed to have a presage of the impending separation. The second stanza further amplifies the connection between the gull and the lost love. The repetition of the lines "era gaviota perdida como perdido es tu amor" means "it was a lost seagull, just like your lost love". The singer describes the deep impact of the lost love on his life and how it was everything to him - the water to his warmth, the sugar to his coffee, the solace to his pain.
Line by Line Meaning
El ave que ayer voló
Yesterday the bird flew
lamentando tu partida
mourning your departure
era gaviota perdida
it was a lost seagull
como perdido es tu amor
just like your lost love
Tu amor que fue
Your love that once was
el agüita de mi calor
the little water to my heat
el azúcar de café
the sugar to my coffee
el consuelo de mi dolor
the comfort to my pain
la salida del mismo sol
the same sun that rises
la frutica demás dulzor
the extra sweetness to my fruit
el jardín de mi florecer
the garden to my blooming
El ave que ayer volo
Yesterday the bird flew
presagiando tu partida
predicting your departure
lamentado de su herida
mourning its wound
era gaviota perdida
it was a lost seagull
como perdido es tu amor
just like your lost love
Contributed by Thomas K. Suggest a correction in the comments below.