"...love of my life, I ask you a favor:
Tell me one time, do you love me or not?"
One of my guilty pleasures is late De Angelis songs like this, with Oscar Larocca at the microphone. To me, each one is like an ultra-condensed version of one of those provocative Douglas Sirk melodramas that Hollywood offered in the same era: Written on the Wind, All That Heaven Allows, Imitation of Life (Photo, right).
I'd love to play this song in a tanda with Cafe Para Dos, Volvamos a Empezar, and Prohibo at our local milonga; I'd love to dance to that tanda with my favorite partner; and I'd love to whisper the lyrics in her ear as we dance. But as the least senior DJ in our community, anyone of those things would get me in hot water, or boiling oil, or something nasty, and we don't want that, do we? So I make nice, and stick to safer "Ds"—Di Sarli, D'Arienzo, D'Agostino, Donato, even Demare)—and everyone's happy. But when I'm singing in the shower, watch out! "Se te not en tus ojos, corazón, que me estás mintiendo!"
Se Te Nota En Los Ojos Corazón (1956)
(I can see it in your eyes, love)
Music/Lyrics: Felix Villa
Singer: Oscar Larocca
By this cross I swear to you, my love,
That my love is pure and true like God,
That your silence is torture for me,
That I always offer you a heaven of tenderness.
But I can't stand this bitterness,
It is torturing me, killing me without pity.
Therefore, love of my life, I ask you a favor:
Tell me one time, do you love me or not?
I can see it in your eyes, my love,
That you're lying to me.
I can see it in your eyes, my love,
That you still love me.
I'm waiting to hear from your lips, "I love you,"
Can't you see that your silence hurts?
I can see it in your eyes, my love,
That you can't hold out much longer.
[Spoken] What do I have to do to get you to speak to me one time?
Don't you see that my love is dying for no reason?
Because if you say something to me, anything,
My heart will blossom and sing with happiness.
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Por esta cruz, yo te lo juro corazón
que mi cariño es puro y cierto como Dios,
que tu silencio es un castigo para mí,
que siempre te ofrecí un cielo de ternura.
Pero no puedo soportar esta amargura
que me tortura y me mata sin piedad
Por eso, vida, yo te pido por favor
me digas de una vez, ¿me quieres si o no?
Se te nota en los ojos, corazón,
que me estás mintiendo.
Se te nota en los ojos, corazón,
que me estás queriendo.
Espero de tus labios un "te quiero",
¿No ves que tu silencio me hace mal?
Se te nota en los ojos, corazón,
que no puedes mas.
¿Que debo hacer para que me hables de una vez?
¿No ves que mi amor se esta muriendo sin razón?
Porque si tu me dices algo, nada más,
florece el corazón y canta de alegría.
Se te nota en los ojos...
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