Lorena may refer to:
Lorena is the self-titled debut album of the Spanish singer Lorena. It was released on 27 March 2007 in Spain, two months after winning fifth series of Spanish Operación Triunfo in 2006. It is an album of personal covers of greatest hits of international artists that also includes two new songs.
The album entered and peaked at number 4 of the Spanish Top 100 Albums. Two singles were released from the album: "Sin Medida" in March 2007 and "Otro Amor Vendrá" in July 2007. To date (September 2007) the album has sold more than 40.000 copies.
"Lorena" is an antebellum song with Northern origins. The lyrics were written in 1856 by Rev. Henry D. L. Webster, after a broken engagement. He wrote a long poem about his fiancée but changed her name to "Lorena", an adaptation of "Lenore" from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven." Henry Webster's friend Joseph Philbrick Webster wrote the music, and the song was first published in Chicago in 1857. It became a favorite of soldiers of both sides during the American Civil War. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
During the American Civil War, soldiers on both sides of the conflict thought of their wives and girlfriends back home when they heard the song "Lorena". One Confederate officer even attributed the South's defeat to the song. He reasoned that upon hearing the mournful ballad the soldiers grew so homesick that they lost their effectiveness as a fighting force.
"Lorena" was based on the lyricist's love for a Zanesville, Ohio girl named Ella Blocksom (who later married William Wartenbee Johnson, Ohio Supreme Court justice from 1879 to 1886).
Qué buena es Lorena cuando quiere
pero cuesta mucho verla sonreír
Lorena es todas o ninguna
o puede ser alguna para mí.
No te olvides de decirle si algún día pasas
por la puerta de la casa de Lorena
que sigo vivo y nunca me olvidé de recordar.
Ni todos mis pecados son pecados capitales
ni corona de laurel.
Y nunca te arrepientas si fuiste buena,
Lorena lo hace por vos.
Hay que ser hombre para olvidar una mujer
si no hay otra igual.
Flaca, no me claves tus puñales
que los males del amor me duelen más.
Nunca te lo dije pero quiero
arrancarte y comerte el corazón.
Tiene tantos pecados
con razón Lorena también ganó su lugar
de angustias y de alcohol.
Lorena no siente pena por nadie,
a Lorena nadie le debe un favor.
Desde nena que a Lorena le enseñaron
que en la vida nunca es nada por amor.
No te olvides de decirle si algún día pasas
por la puerta de la casa de Lorena
que sigo vivo y nunca me olvidé de recordar.
Tengo a Lorena en las venas
por la sangre se me metió.
Es como una droga cualquiera
es necesidad, es amor.
Bajo la luna camino
esquivando charcos, lagunas, ríos y mares.
Y no quiero volver a verte nunca triste, sola.
Lorena no es de aquellas que dan pena,
no dejes que tu ángel te abandone.
No existe el odio,
no existe el recuerdo.
Hoy es hoy, y siempre será hoy.
Pudimos alcanzar el infinito
perdido entre las manos de Lorena.
Queremos decirte que te vemos
en el sol, en la mesa, en el reflejo.
No dejes que tu ángel te abandone, Lorena
es más fácil volar con él.