"Remember Me" is a key song from the 2017 Disney/Pixar animated feature film Coco.
Big Al performs the song in Country Bear Musical Jamboree.
Plot[]
The song is sung in two different styles during the film. The original version is a lullaby sung by Héctor to his daughter Coco as a toddler in a flashback and later by his great-great-grandson Miguel to an elderly Mamá Coco near the film's ending. The second version is in ranchero-style (an homage to the Mexican Corrido style folk ballad of the twenties and thirties) sung by Ernesto de la Cruz.[1] An extended version is in a duet style performed by Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade during the film's end credits.
Lyrics[]
Remember me
Though I have to say goodbye
Remember me
Don't let it make you cry
For even if I'm far away I hold you in my heart
I sing a secret song to you each night we are apart
Remember me
Though I have to travel far
Remember me
Each time you hear a sad guitar
Know that I'm with you the only way that I can be
Until you're in my arms again
Remember me
Miguel:
Remember me,
Though I have to say goodbye
Remember me,
Don't let it make you cry
For ever if I'm far away I hold you in my heart
I sing a secret song to you each night we are apart
Remember me
Though I have to travel far
Remember me
Each time you hear a sad guitar
Know that I’m with you the only way that I can be
Until you’re in my arms again
Remember me
Natalia Lafourcade & Miguel:
Que nuestra canción no deje de latir
Sólo con tu amor yo puedo existir
Recuérdame
Que nuestra canción no deje de latir
Sólo con tu amor yo puedo existir
Natalia Lafourcade:
Recuérdame,
Si en tu mente vivo estoy
Recuérdame,
Mis sueños yo te doy
Te llevo en mi corazón y te acompañaré
Unidos en nuestra canción, contigo ahí estaré
Recuérdame
Si sola crees estar
Recuérdame
Y mi cantar te irá a abrazar
Aún en la distancia nunca vayas a olvidar, que yo contigo siempre voy
Recuérdame
Miguel:
If you close your eyes and let the music play
Keep our love alive, I'll never fade away
If you close your eyes and let the music play
Keep our love alive, I'll never fade away
If you close your eyes and let the music play
Keep our love alive, I'll never fade away...
Remember me, for I will soon be gone
Remember me, and let the love we have live on
And know that I'm with you the only way that I can be
So, until you're in my arms again
Remember me
Natalia Lafourcade & Miguel:
Que nuestra canción no deje de latir
Sólo con tu amor yo puedo existir
Remember me
Que nuestra canción no deje de latir
Sólo con tu amor yo puedo existir
Remember me
Gael Garcia Bernal:
Remember me,
Though I have to say goodbye
Remember me,
Don't let it make you cry
For even if I'm far away I hold you in my heart
I sing a secret song to you each night we are apart
Remember me,
Though I have to travel far
Remember me,
Each time you hear a sad guitar
Know that I'm with you the only way that I can be
Until you're in my arms again
Remember me
(upbeat performance verse)
Miguel:
Remember me,
If you can still recall
Remember me,
When darkness starts to fall
For even though I'm far away you take me everywhere
We'll sing our secret tune and soon I'm with you here and there
Natalia Lafourcade:
Recuérdame
Si sola crees estar
Recuérdame
Y mi guitarra oyes cantar
Aún en la distancia nunca vayas a olvidar, que yo contigo siempre voy
Recuérdame
Miguel:
If you close your eyes and let the music play
Keep our love alive, I'll never fade away
If you close your eyes and let the music play
Keep our love alive, I'll never fade away
If you close your eyes and let the music play
Keep our love alive, I'll never fade away...
Remember me,
For I will soon be gone
Remember me,
When darkness starts to fall
For even though I'm far away you think that I can be
So until you’re in my arms again
Remember me
Natalia Lafourcade & Miguel:
Que nuestra canción no deje de latir
Sólo con tu amor yo puedo existir
Remember me
Que nuestra canción no deje de latir
Sólo con tu amor yo puedo existir
Remember me
Big Al:
Remember Me,
Though I have to say goodbye
Remember Me,
Just don’t let it make you cry
Other versions[]
- For the film's Spanish-language soundtrack, Mexican singer Carlos Rivera covered a Spanish version in mariachi pop style in an extended version; this version replaces the version sung by Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade during the credits in the Spanish version of the film. This version was one of the most successful versions in the Spanish-speaking world.
- Also for said soundtrack, Natalia Lafourcade sang a solo version using the same tune from the Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade version; however, it is entirely sung in Spanish by Lafourcade.
Gallery[]
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- Ironically, "Remember Me" became Ernesto's most famous song after stealing it from Héctor, but it also ended up being his final song as he was crushed by a falling giant bell while finishing it with a high note. Also, on a darkly humorous note, Ernesto's version on the soundtrack is the exact same one from the film, right up to and including the moment where the bell crushes him.
- Interestingly, "Remember Me" serves as the Japanese title for Coco being released in Japan on March 2018 as the film's original title "Coco" does not translate adequately in Japanese language.
- The full version of Ernesto de la Cruz's version of the song from the soundtrack can be found in the deleted scene "Dia de los Muertos" which was the scrapped opening of the film.
- The song won the 2018 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
- When recording the "reunion" version when Miguel was singing the song to Coco, Anthony Gonzalez was actually in tears.
References[]
- ↑ "First listen: Hear three new songs from Pixar’s Coco". Entertainment Weekly (September 15, 2017).
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