| Ayer cuando te vi tan altanera
| Yesterday when I saw you so haughty
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| Pasear con el que fuese mi rival
| Walk with the one who was my rival
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| Pensé en aquellas quince primaveras
| I thought of those fifteen springs
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| Que dio más hermosura a tu mirar
| What gave more beauty to your look
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| Pero hoy no sos la misma que eras antes
| But today you are not the same as you were before
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| La luz que hubo en tus ojos se apagó
| The light that was in your eyes went out
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| Tenés una amargura en tu semblante
| You have a bitterness in your face
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| Que nadie ha de saberla como yo
| That no one has to know it like me
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| Y aunque me niegues que has sufrido
| And even if you deny me that you have suffered
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| Yo bien sé que has vivido
| I know that you have lived
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| Mil horas angustiosas
| A thousand harrowing hours
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| Y que en tu pecho se han quedado
| And that they have stayed in your chest
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| Las dichas del pasado
| the joys of the past
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| Como marchitas rosas…
| Like withered roses...
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| Si por otro hombre me dejaste
| If you left me for another man
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| No quiero reprocharte
| I don't want to reproach you
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| Lo mal que me has querido
| how badly you loved me
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| Vos sos mujer y te perdono
| You are a woman and I forgive you
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| Que al fin con tu abandono
| That finally with your abandonment
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| Me has hecho más feliz
| you have made me happier
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| Yo soy como la abeja, libre vuelo
| I am like the bee, I fly free
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| Y en pos de otro cariño mi alma va
| And after another love my soul goes
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| Pues cuando necesito algún consuelo
| Well when I need some comfort
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| Hay otra que a mi vida se lo da
| There is another that gives it to my life
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| Y ya que fue tu gusto el despreciarme
| And since it was your pleasure to despise me
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| Jamás nunca a tu lado volveré
| I will never ever return to your side
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| Te pago como has sabido pagarme
| I pay you as you have known how to pay me
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| Y todo aquel pasado olvidaré | And all that past I will forget |