Performer of a music style known as Canto Nuevo or Nueva Trova, Luis Eduard… Read Full Bio ↴Performer of a music style known as Canto Nuevo or Nueva Trova, Luis Eduardo Aute has been an artist in many different ways. It was in 1954 when Aute moved to Spain, after spending his childhood in the Philippines. Deciding to become an artist, Luis Eduardo Aute's first passion was painting, having his first exhibition in 1960, while living in Madrid. By the mid-'60s, the painter and poet was convinced to start recording his own music and he signed up to RCA in 1966. The following year, Aleluya and Rosas En El Mar were released. Prominent books such as Las Matematicas del Espejo, La Liturgia del Desorden, and Animal were published in recognition to his writing skills. After releasing Alevosía in 1995, Aute started touring all over Latin America and Spain with a painting exhibition called Ad Libidum; he later participated in a collective album called Un Secreto A Voces, based on lyrics by Alejandro Filio.

Ausência
Luis Eduardo Aute Lyrics

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Me duelen las sombras que ocultan el alma
si el alma es la mente y la sombra, distancia.
Me duele la ausencia de mentes más claras
que nunca por claras tuvieron morada.

Overall Meaning

In Luis Eduardo Aute's song "Ausencia," he explores the pain of being separated from someone or something. The first two lines of the song convey a sense of emptiness and longing for something that seems to be hidden away from view. He talks about how the shadows conceal the soul, and how the soul could be equated with the mind, while the shadows represent distance. This suggests that the pain of absence is particularly acute when the person or thing in question is far away or difficult to reach.

Aute goes on to talk about the absence of people with clear minds who were once part of his life. He says that they never found a true home, despite their clarity of thought. This could be interpreted as a lament for lost friendships or relationships, where the people in question were unable to stay in each other's lives. The pain of their absence is felt keenly by Aute, and the song becomes a reflection on the transience of relationships and how much they can impact our lives.

Line by Line Meaning

Me duelen las sombras que ocultan el alma
The pain within me is caused by the darkness that clouds the mind, if the mind is the soul and the shadow, the distance.

si el alma es la mente y la sombra, distancia.
If the soul is the mind and the shadow is the distance.

Me duele la ausencia de mentes más claras
The absence of clear minds causes me pain.

que nunca por claras tuvieron morada.
That never found a place, even though they were clear.

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