Release
Solo Quiero Que Lo Sepas, Papá
- Release date
- 21/01/2026
- Type
- Single
- Duration
- 6 min 33 sec
- Genre
- PopAdult Contemporary
- Language
- Spanish
About this release
I wrote this song for my father and I speak to him directly, one to one. It isn't a cover or a nod to other songs about fathers. It's a letter of mine, written when he was no longer here to read it. I had things to tell him and this was the only way I found to say them out loud.
Almost everything in it is gratitude. My father taught more with gestures than with words. He set the course by what he did. I wanted to give him exactly that back: to say aloud what was taken for granted at home and rarely spoken. There's absence and there's grief, but the idea holding the song up is a 'see you later', not a final goodbye. The bond goes on. His way of loving stayed in small everyday things and in my own voice.
I didn't want a song about overcoming anything, or a message of encouragement. I just wanted it to ring true: a plain ballad, with the words in front of everything. And to be honest, I also made it for myself. Writing it and recording it was my way of putting the grief in some order and giving myself permission to keep making music without leaving him out. It didn't heal anything, that doesn't heal, but it helped me set something down inside. The title says it plainly: I just want you to know.
Almost everything in it is gratitude. My father taught more with gestures than with words. He set the course by what he did. I wanted to give him exactly that back: to say aloud what was taken for granted at home and rarely spoken. There's absence and there's grief, but the idea holding the song up is a 'see you later', not a final goodbye. The bond goes on. His way of loving stayed in small everyday things and in my own voice.
I didn't want a song about overcoming anything, or a message of encouragement. I just wanted it to ring true: a plain ballad, with the words in front of everything. And to be honest, I also made it for myself. Writing it and recording it was my way of putting the grief in some order and giving myself permission to keep making music without leaving him out. It didn't heal anything, that doesn't heal, but it helped me set something down inside. The title says it plainly: I just want you to know.
Song notes
Of everything I've released, this is the song that was hardest to write and the one I least wanted to dress up. I wrote it the way you write a letter you know you won't be able to send: not chasing pretty rhymes, trying to make every line true.
It's built as a conversation with him. I thank him, I tell him how the house is, I promise him we're still together. What mattered most was telling what he was like: someone who said the important things without saying them, with a look, with silence, with what he did. That's why the production is minimal and the voice sits right up front. A big arrangement would have sounded like putting music on something that only asked to be said.
There's one idea at the centre of it all for me: somehow, he still sounds every time I sing. It isn't just a nice metaphor, it's what I feel when I perform it. I didn't make it to turn the page or to teach anyone about grief. I made it because I needed to. It was the only way I found to keep making music without leaving him out. Writing it was hard, but not making it felt worse. And deep down I wrote it hoping that, one way or another, it reaches him.
It's built as a conversation with him. I thank him, I tell him how the house is, I promise him we're still together. What mattered most was telling what he was like: someone who said the important things without saying them, with a look, with silence, with what he did. That's why the production is minimal and the voice sits right up front. A big arrangement would have sounded like putting music on something that only asked to be said.
There's one idea at the centre of it all for me: somehow, he still sounds every time I sing. It isn't just a nice metaphor, it's what I feel when I perform it. I didn't make it to turn the page or to teach anyone about grief. I made it because I needed to. It was the only way I found to keep making music without leaving him out. Writing it was hard, but not making it felt worse. And deep down I wrote it hoping that, one way or another, it reaches him.
Lyrics
Papá
A veces sigo siendo un niño
Aunque el tiempo
Me haya hecho mayor
En casa se siente tu ausencia
En la forma en que llenabas nuestras vidas
Cuando mamá te nombra en casa
Entra un poco más de calma y calor
Yo crecí aprendiendo en silencio
De todo lo que guardabas en tu corazón
Hoy te canto con la esencia de aquel niño
Pero con la voz del hombre que soy
Por lo que me enseñaste a tu modo
Hoy solo quiero darte las gracias
Por mis hermanas y familia
Por todos los que te queremos
Lo que nunca supimos decirnos
Se resume en un gracias
Un te quiero
Y un aquí estoy
Solo quiero que lo sepas, papá
Tu latido
Se quedó en mi voz
No es adiós, es un puente hacia el cielo
Un camino que nos unirá
Cuando llegue el momento
Cuando miremos las estrellas en el cielo
Y el silencio nos deje escuchar
Sentiremos tu cariño por dentro
Como un cálido
Y fuerte abrazo
Hasta luego, papá
Siempre estarás
En nuestro corazón
Guardo momentos compartidos contigo
Como recuerdos que no se pueden olvidar
Tu mirada diciendo a tu modo
Tu silencio dejándome hablar
A tu forma marcabas el rumbo
Con tus hechos más que con la voz
En los gestos pequeños de cada día
Tu manera de amar
Siempre fue fiel y sincera
Ahora estás con tu hijo mayor en el cielo
Y con los seres queridos que partieron antes de ti
Abrázales muy fuerte por nosotros
Mientras aquí seguimos unidos a ti
Llamamos cielo al lugar del abrazo
Que no entiende de tiempo ni espacio
Cuando un día nos llegue el momento
Saldréis todos juntos a nuestro encuentro
Solo quiero que lo sepas, papá
Que tu huella
Siempre persistirá
En cada gesto pequeño en casa
Seguirás siempre
Dentro de nosotros
No es adiós, es un hasta luego, papá
Nuestro lazo
No se romperá
Cuando al fin volvamos a encontrarnos
Sentirás lo que nunca
Me atreví a compartir
Solo quiero que lo sepas, papá
Que en mi voz tu abrazo seguirá
Hasta que nos volvamos a encontrar
Track list
Credits
- Main artist:
- Phoenix Vega
- Composed by:
- Franccisco Javier Paños Madrona
- Lyrics by:
- Franccisco Javier Paños Madrona
- Produced by:
- Franccisco Javier Paños Madrona
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