| Lastima, bandoneón, mi corazón
| Pity, bandoneon, my heart
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| Tu ronca maldición maleva
| Your hoarse malevolent curse
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| Tu lágrima de ron me lleva
| Your tear of rum takes me
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| Hacia el hondo, bajo fondo donde el barro se subleva
| Towards the deep, under the bottom 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 mi confesión
| That is a curda just my confession
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| Contame tu condena, decime tu fracaso
| Tell me your conviction, tell me your failure
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| ¿No ves la pena que me ha herido?
| Can't you see the sorrow that has hurt me?
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| Y hablame simplemente de aquel amor ausente
| And just talk to me about that absent love
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| Tras un retazo del olvido
| After a slice of oblivion
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| Ya sé que me haces daño, yo sé que te lastimo
| I already know that you hurt me, I know that I hurt you
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| Llorando mi sermón de vino
| Crying 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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| Y busca en un licor que aturda
| And look in a liquor that stuns
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| La curda que al final termine la función
| The curda that at the end ends the function
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| Corriéndole un telón al corazón
| Pulling a curtain to the heart
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| Cerrame el ventanal que arrastra el sol
| Close the window that drags the sun
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| Su lento caracol de sueño
| Your slow dream snail
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| ¿No ves que vengo de un país
| Can't you see I come from a country
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| Que está de olvido, siempre gris tras el alcohol?
| What is forgotten, always gray after alcohol?
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| Contame tu condena, decime tu fracaso
| Tell me your conviction, tell me your failure
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| ¿No ves la pena que me ha herido?
| Can't you see the sorrow that has hurt me?
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| Y hablame simplemente de aquel amor ausente
| And just talk to me about that absent love
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| Tras un retazo del olvido
| After a slice of oblivion
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| Ya sé que me hace daño y yo sé que te lastimo
| I already know that it hurts me and I know that I hurt you
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| Llorando mi sermón de vino
| Crying 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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| Y busca en un licor que aturda
| And look in a liquor that stuns
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| La curda que al final termine la función
| The curda that at the end ends the function
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| Corriéndole un telón al corazón | Pulling a curtain to the heart |