Viejo Amigo Lyrics in English by Joe Veras
Correspondido means “requited” or “returned,” especially when talking about love or feelings. In the song, the singer wonders what it feels like to love someone without knowing whether that love is correspondido, making this an emotionally powerful and useful word for describing mutual affection.
Joe Veras’s “Viejo Amigo” sounds like a conversation between two friends after one of them falls in love again. The speaker admits, “mi viejo amigo, me vuelvo a enamorar” [my old friend, I’m falling in love again]. He cannot sleep because he keeps thinking about her and spends his time wishing he could see her. The repeated mention of an “old friend” makes the song feel personal and direct, as if a friend is receiving an excited, slightly desperate confession. “No duermo pensando en mí” [I don’t sleep thinking about myself] appears in the lyrics as given, though the surrounding lines clearly focus on the woman and the speaker’s restless thoughts about her.
The speaker also asks someone who sees her every day to pass along a message: “tú que a diario la ves” [you, who see her every day]. He wonders what she really needs. “Quizás no le hagan falta flores, tal vez no le hagan falta las palabras” [perhaps she does not need flowers, perhaps she does not need words] leads to a blunt idea: maybe love is what she is missing. He says that he knows her and that he would risk a lot for her, even admitting, “de eso yo también puedo morir” [I could die from that too]. The song’s language is sometimes fragmentary, but its central image is clear: an old friend hears about a new love, while the lovesick speaker keeps thinking, hoping, and trying to reach a woman who might not return his feelings.
