Translation of the song lyrics Dicha pasada - Osvaldo Pugliese, Miguel Montero

Dicha pasada (original)

Ayer cuando te vi tan altanera
Pasear con el que fuese mi rival
Pensé en aquellas quince primaveras
Que dio más hermosura a tu mirar
Pero hoy no sos la misma que eras antes
La luz que hubo en tus ojos se apagó
Tenés una amargura en tu semblante
Que nadie ha de saberla como yo
Y aunque me niegues que has sufrido
Yo bien sé que has vivido
Mil horas angustiosas
Y que en tu pecho se han quedado
Las dichas del pasado
Como marchitas rosas…
Si por otro hombre me dejaste
No quiero reprocharte
Lo mal que me has querido
Vos sos mujer y te perdono
Que al fin con tu abandono
Me has hecho más feliz
Yo soy como la abeja, libre vuelo
Y en pos de otro cariño mi alma va
Pues cuando necesito algún consuelo
Hay otra que a mi vida se lo da
Y ya que fue tu gusto el despreciarme
Jamás nunca a tu lado volveré
Te pago como has sabido pagarme
Y todo aquel pasado olvidaré

(translation)

Yesterday when I saw you so haughty
Walk with the one who was my rival
I thought of those fifteen springs
What gave more beauty to your look
But today you are not the same as you were before
The light that was in your eyes went out
You have a bitterness in your face
That no one has to know it like me
And even if you deny me that you have suffered
I know that you have lived
A thousand harrowing hours
And that they have stayed in your chest
the joys of the past
Like withered roses...
If you left me for another man
I don't want to reproach you
how badly you loved me
You are a woman and I forgive you
That finally with your abandonment
you have made me happier
I am like the bee, I fly free
And after another love my soul goes
Well when I need some comfort
There is another that gives it to my life
And since it was your pleasure to despise me
I will never ever return to your side
I pay you as you have known how to pay me
And all that past I will forget