Listen to this when
Cuando un amigo se va
For the empty chair a friend leaves behind 🤍
Who it's for
Alberto Cortez sings about the void a friend leaves behind when they are gone, treating that absence with poetic seriousness.
Hollow, missing someone→Tender remembrance
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Cuando un amigo se va" is a song by Argentine singer-songwriter Alberto Cortez from the album El compositor, el cantante. Cortez began writing it the night he learned, while on tour in Madrid, of his father's death in 1969; he described his father as his first friend. The song reflects on the emptiness a friend leaves behind when they are gone.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Age: All ages
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, “On Death”
