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Exhibit 012

De Años de Casi

Fronteras y Ecos · Track 12 · 5:11

The Cornerstone

Not every unfinished story feels incomplete.

Some remain suspended between possibility and reality for so long that the waiting itself becomes part of the relationship.

De Años de Casi reflects on everything that almost happened. The conversations that nearly became plans. The reunions that almost changed everything. The futures that briefly seemed within reach before quietly dissolving into ordinary life.

The song does not mourn those possibilities. Instead, it recognizes that they shaped the relationship just as deeply as the moments that truly occurred.

Some lives are defined by certainty.

Others are remembered through the beauty of what almost was.

Story Behind the Song

As the years passed, the relationship gradually became less about reunion and more about conversation. Messages, memories, and familiar routines quietly replaced the certainty that had once surrounded every meeting.

The recurring word 'casi' became more than a description. It became an emotional landscape. Nearly arriving. Nearly choosing differently. Nearly discovering another life together.

Rather than asking whether different decisions might have changed everything, the song accepts that some stories derive their beauty precisely from remaining unfinished.

Memory preserves those possibilities without demanding answers, allowing them to exist alongside gratitude instead of regret.

Lyrics

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Verso 1

Me escribes cuando la noche

Ya no sabe dónde terminar

Y apareces entre las sombras

Como quien nunca se fue del todo jamás

 

Yo respondo sin prisa

Como quien conoce el ritual

De encontrarse en las palabras

Cuando no se puede en la realidad

 

Tú y yo somos expertos

En quedarnos a mitad

Habitando ese territorio

Que separa el irse del regresar

Pre-Coro

Hay personas que se vuelven recuerdo

Y otras que aprenden a esperar

Coro

Casi cruzamos la distancia

Casi dejamos de imaginar

Casi encontramos el momento

Donde todo podía comenzar

 

Pero la vida fue escribiendo

En otro idioma y otro lugar

Y nos quedamos viviendo

De años de casi llegar

Verso 2

Guardamos conversaciones

Como quien guarda un viejo mapa

Sabiendo que existen caminos

Que nunca encuentran la misma casa

 

Y aunque el tiempo fue cambiando

La forma de mirar atrás

Hay cosas que no se terminan

Solo aprenden a respirar

Pre-Coro

Porque algunos sentimientos

No saben cómo finalizar

Coro

Casi cruzamos la distancia

Casi dejamos de imaginar

Casi encontramos el momento

Donde todo podía comenzar

 

Pero la vida fue escribiendo

En otro idioma y otro lugar

Y nos quedamos viviendo

De años de casi llegar

Puente

¿Y si hubiéramos elegido distinto?

¿Y si el reloj hubiera esperado?

 

Preguntas que nunca responden

Pero tampoco se han marchado

 

Tal vez no era nuestro destino

Tal vez sí, pero llegó tarde

O tal vez algunas historias

Nacen solamente para quedarse

Final

No fuimos un para siempre

Ni un adiós para olvidar

Fuimos algo más difícil

 

De años

De casi llegar

 

Y todavía cuando apareces

 

Por un instante

 

La distancia parece equivocarse.

Studio Notes

De Años de Casi serves as one of the album's most contemplative exhibits.

Unlike earlier songs that describe physical journeys, this exhibit explores emotional geography. The distance now exists less between countries than between the life imagined and the life ultimately lived.

The repeated use of 'casi' transforms the song into a meditation on possibility. Rather than presenting unfinished stories as failures, it suggests that some relationships fulfill their purpose without ever becoming what either person originally imagined.

Musically, the arrangement should feel intimate and reflective, allowing silence and restraint to carry as much emotional weight as the melody itself.

The song reminds us that a life can be profoundly shaped not only by what happened, but also by everything that almost did.

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Credits

Artist
Francisco Colón
Album
Fronteras y Ecos
Words and Lyrics
Francisco Colón
Creative Direction
Francisco Colón
Production
Francisco Colón Studio
Vocals and Musical Generation
Suno AI
Mastering
Adobe Audition