“I swear that I will return” is the second song from AUTOPOIÉTICA, the eighth studio album by Mon Laferte.
It was also the first song previewed prior to the album’s release.
It is a cumbia rebajada, electronically manipulated on purpose to have a slower tempo and a deeper tone in Mon’s voice.

It is a reflection on the promise she made to her mother and her grandmother about returning to Chile after trying her luck in Mexico.
The song is filled with references to Mon’s life prior to her departure from Chile and her experience as an independent artist in Mexico. In her own words:

This is a song that talks about my story as a migrant, it is a story of failure, I promise my grandmother that I will bring her with me when things go well for me and I don’t succeed, my grandmother dies first. I thought it was nice to do it with this voice that is not pretty

In the song’s visualizer, Mon is inside a tomb, being symbolically buried, with the flags of her two nations, Chile and Mexico; while outside her several people throw flowers at her and dance to the rhythm of the lowered cumbia.