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With ‘Amen,’ Sebastián Yatra Turns Music Into a Call for Change: English Lyrics

The song is a call to introspection—an invitation to stop judging and start looking at ourselves with honesty

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Sebastián Yatra has released the music video for ‘Amen,’ a single from his album Milagro that goes far beyond music. The Colombian singer uses it to pose a direct question: What are we doing for others and for the world we live in?

Amen is a call to introspection—an invitation to stop judging and start looking at ourselves with honesty. The track becomes a space to talk about empathy, responsibility, and action. Yatra doesn’t just sing; he takes part, commits himself, and reminds us that art can also be a powerful tool for social change.

The music video amplifies this message with raw and moving visuals. Directed by Borja Respaldiza of The Feelms Studio, it follows Yatra’s trip to Africa with AUARA, a Spanish social enterprise that reinvests its profits into projects that provide access to clean water, sanitation, and sustainable farming.

Yatra’s Stay in Kenya

During his time in Kenya, Sebastián Yatra visited the Humanitas School run by the NGO KUBUKA and the Shelter House of the Kirira Foundation, where he witnessed firsthand the struggles of communities living without access to clean water and facing extreme vulnerability.

The video especially highlights young girls at risk of practices like female genital mutilation and child marriage. Yatra appears as an observer—present, engaged, listening, and learning from what he experienced.

This project also marks the beginning of a collaboration between Yatra and AUARA. Since learning about their work in 2024, the singer has chosen to actively support initiatives both in Kenya and in his home country of Colombia.

With ‘Amen,’ Yatra reminds us that art can be a tool to make the invisible visible and to inspire collective action.

‘Amen’ English Translation

[Verse 1]

I don’t have a heart, it broke a long time ago
And now there are things that without it I can’t feel
What’s outside doesn’t match what’s inside
The world on fire, me at a concert
Wanting to speak without wanting to hear
And in this movie, the good guy isn’t always the one who prays
The bad guy doesn’t always start the fight
Everyone claims to be right
But I have faith
There’s calm if there was a storm
There’s peace, even if I don’t feel it today
And even if there are reasons to suffer

[Chorus]

Only when you’re here, if you’re here
It goes away, it goes away
Only when you’re here, if you’re here
It goes away, it goes away
Amen, amen, amen, amen

[Verse 2]

We understood amen as an ending, but it meant “to love”
We thought it meant “win,” but it meant “heal”
We thought it meant “pray,” but it meant “to think”
Because in God’s eyes, we are all the same
No one is born with hate, it’s taught to you
As children, bombs don’t explode
Fear is what the news feeds on
And for money, love was put up for sale, and today…

[Refrain]

We understood amen, but it meant “to love”
We understood amen, but it meant “to love”

[Chorus]

Only when you’re here, if you’re here
It goes away, it goes away
Amen, amen, amen, amen
(We understood amen, but it meant “to love”)

[Outro]

Amen (We understood amen, but it meant “to love”)
(But it meant “to love”)
Amen.