|
Tango Lyrics in Spanish and
English
|
|
|
CONVENCERNOS
|
To convince ourselves (1976)
|
| Lyrics by: Eladia Blasquez |
Music by: Eladia Blasquez |
| Translated by: Alberto Paz | Return to Table of Contents |
| Last update on: 1/19/08 | |
| CLICK ON THE REFRESH BUTTON TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE LATEST PAGE | |
| |
| According to Julio
Nudler writing in Todo Tango.com, Blasquez created a truly new tango
song, although not on vanguard's molds, with her rare ability to
combine notes and words. With a new thematic and an updated language
she hit in an ample public, not necessarily tanguero. The
traditionalists received her coldly, although without the
aggressiveness they saved for other proposals of the kind. She was frequently called "the Discepolo with skirts", but that comparison with Enrique Santos Discepolo is really excessive. Although Blázquez usually was critical, incisive and skeptical, her verses do not have - except in rare occasions- the depth, the wealth of images nor the poetry of those of Discepolo. Within the irregular quality of her compositions, she falls at times in an excessive and rhetorical exaltation of Buenos Aires, that overlooks the deteriorated quality of life in that great large city of disordered growth, polluted and in some sectors chaotic. Another despicable characteristic of her composition is the hollow nationalism that at times she professes. An example of it can be found in the tango "CONVENCERNOS", that she wrote with Chico Novarro in 1976, when Argentina began to undergo the bloodier military dictatorship of its history. |
| CASTELLANO | ENGLISH |
|
Convencernos que somos capaces
que tenemos pasta y nos sobra la clase decidirnos en nuestro terreno y tirarnos a mas nunca a menos Convencernos, no ser descreidos que vence y convence el que esta convencido no sentir por lo nuestro un falso pudor y aprender de los nuestro el sabor Y ser al menos, una vez nosotros sin ese tinte del color de otros recuperar la identidad, plantarnos en los pies crecer hasta tapar la inmadurez y ser al menos una vez nosotros tan nosotros, bien nosotros, como debe ser... Convencernos, un dia de veras que todo lo bueno no viene de afuera que tenemos estilo y un modo y hace falta jugarlo con todo... Convencernos, con fuerza y coraje que es tiempo y es hora de usar nuestro traje ser nosotros por siempre y a fuerza de ser convencernos y asi convencer Y ser al menos, una vez nosotros sin ese tinte del color de otros recuperar la identidad, plantarnos en los pies crecer hasta tapar la inmadurez y ser al menos una vez nosotros tan nosotros, bien nosotros, como debe ser.... Y vos tambien, y vos tambien quedate con nosotros y vos tambien, y vos tambien quedate con nosotros no con otro, con nosotros, como debe ser... |
To convince ourselves that we are capable
that we have what it takes and class to spare to decide ourselves in our land and to bet at more and never at less To convince ourselves, not to be skeptics, that wins and convinces the one who is convinced not to feel a false shame for what is ours and to learn the flavor of what is ours. And to be at least once, ourselves without that tint of somebody else's color to recover the identity, to stand up on our feet to grow until the immaturity is covered and to be at least once ourselves, so much us, so ourselves, as it must be... To convince ourselves, one day really that all the good things don't come from outside that we have style and a way and there is a need to play with all we got... To convince ourselves, with strength and courage that it is time and the hour to use our suit to be ourselves forever and by force of being to convince ourselves and thus to convince. And to be at least once, ourselves without that tint of somebody else's color to recover the identity, to stand up on our feet to grow until the immaturity is covered and to be at least once ourselves, so much us, so ourselves, as it must be... And you too, and you too stay with us and you too, and you too stay with us not with others, with us, as it must be... |
|
CONTACT US |
|||