| Mucho tiempo después de alejarme
| Long after I walked away
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| Vuelvo al barrio que un día dejé…
| I return to the neighborhood that one day I left…
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| Con el ansia de ver por sus calles
| With the desire to see through its streets
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| Mis viejos amigos, el viejo café
| My old friends, the old cafe
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| En la noche tranquila y oscura
| In the quiet dark night
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| Hasta el aire parece decir:
| Even the air seems to say:
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| «No te olvides que siempre fui tuya
| «Do not forget that I was always yours
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| Y sigo esperando que vuelvas a mí»
| And I'm still waiting for you to come back to me"
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| En esta noche vuelvo a ser
| On this night I am again
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| Aquel muchacho soñador
| that dreamy boy
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| Que supo amarte y con sus versos
| That he knew how to love you and with his verses
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| Te brindó sus penas…
| He gave you his sorrows...
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| Hay una voz que me dice al oído:
| There is a voice that whispers in my ear:
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| «Yo sé que has venido
| «I know that you have come
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| Por ella… por ella!»
| For her… for her!”
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| Qué amable y qué triste es a la vez
| How kind and how sad at the same time
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| La soledad del arrabal
| The loneliness of the suburb
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| Con sus casitas y los árboles que pintan sombras
| With its little houses and the trees that paint shadows
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| Sentir que todo… que todo la nombra
| Feeling that everything… that everything names her
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| ¡Qué ganas enormes me dan de llorar!
| What a huge desire they make me cry!
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| Bajo el cielo cubierto de estrellas
| Under the star covered sky
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| Una sombra parezco al pasar…
| A shadow I seem to pass...
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| No he de verme jamás con aquella
| I will never see myself with that
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| ¡Qué tanto mi quiso… y hoy debo olvidar!
| How much he loved me... and today I must forget!
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| En la noche tranquila y oscura
| In the quiet dark night
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| Hasta el aire parece decir:
| Even the air seems to say:
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| «Para qué recordar que fui tuya
| "Why remember that I was yours
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| Si yo ya no espero que vuelvas a mí!» | If I no longer expect you to come back to me!” |