“Accounts of the Soul”
Album: Escenas (Scenes), 1985
Style: Storytelling salsa, salsa consciente (socially conscious salsa). Story of a boy who watches his mother waste her life away pining for his father who left them.
Country: Panama
Lyrics Translation:
Siempre en la noche
Mi mamá buscaba el sueño
Frente a la televisión,
Y me pedía que por favor,
No la apagara.
Always at night
My mother sought sleep
In front of the television,
And she’d ask me please,
Don’t turn it off.
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