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.

Irreversiblemente
Luis Eduardo Aute Lyrics

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Irreversiblemente me elige
la caída
cada vez que intento, junto a ti,
resucitar.
Remuevo el alma, impulso latidos,
persigo a ciegas la alta luz
que un día, ¿cuándo fue?,
diseminó

sobre nuestras almas su hálito
divino.
Pero son en vano mis aspavientos
amadísimo cuerpo del alma...
caigo siempre, irreversiblemente,
como un cometa caigo
a las cenizas dispersas
de tu anatomía,
a los mismísimos restos
de aquel infierno, ya extinguido,
que también una noche,
¿cuándo fue?,

logró fundir nuestros cuerpos
transfigurados.

Overall Meaning

The first verse of the song "Irreversiblemente" by Luis Eduardo Aute portrays a sense of inevitability in the singer's relationship with their lover. The singer describes how they are constantly drawn towards the other person, as if falling, and that every time they try to resurrect themselves with them, they fall again. The language of "removing the soul" and pursuing the "divine breath" that once spread over them emphasizes the intensity of their passion as well as their spiritual connection.

In the second verse, the singer acknowledges that these efforts are in vain as they always end up falling "irreversibly" like a comet to the scattered ashes of their lover's anatomy. They find themselves entangled in the very remains of the "extinguished" hell that they once transfigured in. This language of dying and extinguishing underscores the idea that the relationship is both powerful and destructive, and that it always ends in the same way - in ruins.

Overall, the song "Irreversiblemente" captures the intense feeling of falling in love with someone where the relationship feels destined to end in destruction. The language of flames, falling, and ashes evokes the sense of passion and devastation that comes with loving someone intensely.

Line by Line Meaning

Irreversiblemente me elige la caída
I am inevitably chosen by the fall

cada vez que intento, junto a ti, resucitar
every time I try to resurrect with you

Remuevo el alma, impulso latidos
I stir the soul, pulse impulses

persigo a ciegas la alta luz
I blindly pursue the high light

que un día, ¿cuándo fue?, diseminó sobre nuestras almas su hálito divino
that one day, when was it?, disseminated its divine breath over our souls

Pero son en vano mis aspavientos amadísimo cuerpo del alma...
But my beloved body of the soul's gestures are in vain...

caigo siempre, irreversiblemente, como un cometa caigo
I always fall, irreversibly, I fall like a comet

a las cenizas dispersas de tu anatomía
to the scattered ashes of your anatomy

a los mismísimos restos de aquel infierno, ya extinguido
to the very remains of that already extinguished hell

que también una noche, ¿cuándo fue?, logró fundir nuestros cuerpos transfigurados
that also one night, when was it?, managed to fuse our transfigured bodies

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