Mariachi Lyrics Archive

Recuérdame

You live as long as someone remembers you. Las Almas sings Recuérdame as what it has truly become — a real Día de los Muertos folk song.

About the Song

Recuérdame is the emotional heart of Disney-Pixar's Coco (2017), composed by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. The film, set during Día de los Muertos, drew deeply on Mexican folk traditions, and Recuérdame became the film's central thesis: the dead live as long as they are remembered. Las Almas' version honors both the film and the ancient belief it so faithfully rendered. The song has been embraced by Mexican families worldwide, sung at funerals, at ofrendas, and at Día de los Muertos celebrations as a real folk song — which, in the truest sense, it now is.

Meaning of the Song

Recuérdame is the Día de los Muertos philosophy in song form: you are not gone as long as someone remembers you. The guitar, the voice from far away, the promise to be present in ways only memory allows — this is what the ofrenda means, what the marigold path means, what the photograph on the altar means. Las Almas sings it as the tradition it has become: a song that belongs to every family that has placed a photo on an altar and lit a candle in the dark.

Lyrics / Letra

Recuérdame
Hoy me tengo que ir, mi amor
Recuérdame
No llores, por favor

Te llevo en mi corazón
Y cerca me tendrás
A solas, yo te cantaré
Soñando en regresar

Recuérdame
Aunque tenga que emigrar
Recuérdame
Si mi guitarra oyes llorar
Ella con su triste canto te acompañará
Hasta que en mis brazos tu estas

Te llevo en mi corazón
Y cerca me tendrás
A solas, yo te cantaré
Soñando en regresar

Recuérdame
Aunque tenga que emigrar
Recuérdame
Si mi guitarra oyes llorar
Ella con su triste canto te acompañará
Hasta que en mis brazos tu estas

Recuérdame

Interpretación Las Almas • ℗ Muertolandia Music © The Pico Blvd Group

English Translation

Remember me
even though I have to say goodbye
remember me
don't cry, don't be sad

I'll always be in your heart
from far away I'll sing for you
until we are together again
remember me

Remember me
though I have to travel far
remember me
when you hear this sad guitar

Know that I am with you
the only way I know how
until we embrace again
remember me