“Cuando Estés Aquí” is a heartfelt ballad in which Spanish singer-songwriter Pablo Alborán captures the strange pause in life created by distance and lockdown. With images of Madrid turned into a desert and balconies that have run out of tears, he paints the quiet loneliness of homes converted into makeshift offices. Broken promises are compared to punctured footballs, stray bullets of despair, while fear hides behind forced smiles. In this suspended reality, forgetting feels fashionable, yet the present keeps forcing us to remember what truly matters.
The chorus offers a bright spark of hope. Alborán asks to “set the counter to zero” so he can be the first to kiss the other person’s scars, promising that laughter will return when they are finally together. Love and human closeness become the ultimate remedy; until that long-awaited embrace arrives, he endures “the hell of living without you.” The song reminds us that even in the deepest isolation, healing is possible once we reunite with those we love.