DOS FRACASOS ("Two Disasters")
Tango, 1941
Music by Miguel Caló
Words by Homero Expósito
Performed by Orquesta Típica Miguel Caló with vocal by Alberto Podestá, 31 July 1941.
Subtitled video in Spanish with English-language version. (Titles begin immediately; if you don't see them, click the "CC" button.)
Full, face-to-face text of the lyrics in Spanish and English follows the video.
| Me sorprendí Cuando te hallé Como un dolor sin palabras. La voz mareada de copas Se me anudó en la garganta. Quise gritar, Pero pa´ qué Si al fin yo estoy igual. Sueños... Que gastamos conversando, Cuando... Nos hablábamos de amor. Horas... Que ya están en el olvido, Sensación de haber perdido La esperanza en el adiós. Rabia... De sabernos tan cambiados, Miedo... De gritar esta verdad, Somos... Dos fracasos que se amaron Y partieron y olvidaron, Y hoy se miran asombrados De morder la realidad. Vuelve otra vez A tu rincón Que yo ya me voy con los años. Ya llueve plata en mis sienes Y hay un dolor en tus manos. Pa´ qué llorar Todo el ayer Si ya no puede ser. |
I was surprised, when I found you like a pain, dumbstruck. Your voice dizzy with drink, tied a knot in my throat. I wanted to scream, but what for if in the end I’m just like you? Dreams... that we spent discussing. When... we used to talk of love. Hours... that are now forgotten, the feeling of having lost the hope of our farewell. Rage, seeing how much we've both changed, fear, of crying out that truth. We are... two failures that loved each other and parted and forgot and today we find ourselves astonished to take in the reality. [Go back again to your corner that I'm already leaving with the years. Now silver rains on my temples and there’s a pain in your hands. Why weep for all that went before, if now it cannot be?] |
Spanish lyrics courtesy of hermanotango.com.
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