| Lástima, bandoneón, mi corazón,
| Pity, bandoneon, my heart,
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| tu ronca maldición maleva
| your hoarse evil curse
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| tu lágrima de ron me lleva
| your tear of rum takes me
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| hacia el hondo bajofondo
| into the deep underworld
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| donde el barro se subleva.
| where the mud rises.
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| Ya sé, no me digás, tenés razón,
| I know, don't tell me, you're right,
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| la vida es una herida absurda
| life is an absurd wound
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| y es todo, todo tan fugaz
| and it's all, all so fleeting
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| que es una curda, nada más,
| which is a curda, nothing more,
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| mi confesión.
| My confession.
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| Contáme tu condena, decíme tu fracaso,
| Tell me your sentence, tell me your failure,
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| no ves la pena que me digo,
| you do not see the pity that I tell myself,
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| y habláme simplemente
| and just talk to me
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| de aquel amor ausente
| of that absent love
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| que es un retazo del olvido.
| which is a piece of oblivion.
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| Yo sé que te lastimo, yo sé que te hago daño
| I know that I hurt you, I know that I hurt you
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| contando mi sermón de vino,
| recounting my wine sermon,
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| pero es el viejo amor que tiembla, bandoneón,
| but it is the old love that trembles, bandoneon,
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| buscando en un licor que aturda
| looking in a liquor that stuns
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| la curda que al final
| the curda that in the end
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| termina la función
| end the function
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| corriéndole un telón
| pulling down a curtain
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| al corazón.
| to the heart.
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| Un poco de recuerdo y sin sabor
| A bit of memory and no taste
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| gotea su rezongo lerdo,
| drips his sluggish grumbling,
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| marea tu licor y arrea la tropilla de la zurda
| dizzy your liquor and herd the herd of the lefty
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| al volcar la última curda.
| when overturning the last curda.
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| Cerráme el ventanal que quema el sol
| Close the window that burns the sun
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| su lento caracol de sueño
| his slow dream snail
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| no ves que vengo de un país
| Can't you see that I come from a country
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| que está de olvido, siempre gris,
| that is forgotten, always gray,
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| tras el alcohol. | after the alcohol. |