Tango Lyrics in Spanish and English

EL ULTIMO CAFE
The last coffee (1963)
Lyrics by: Catulo Castillo
Music by: Hector Stampone


Translated by: Alberto Paz
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Nena





ROSANNA FALASCA



CASTELLANO ENGLISH
Llega tu recuerdo en torbellino.
Vuelve en el otoño a atardecer...
Miro la garúa, y mientras miro
gira la cuchara de café...
Del último café
que tus labios, con frío
pidieron esa vez
con la voz de un suspiro...
Recuerdo tu desdén,
te evoco sin razón,
te escucho sin que estés:
"Lo nuestro terminó",
dijiste en un adiós
de azúcar y de hiel...
Lo mismo que el café,
que el amor, que el olvido,
que el vértigo final
de un rencor sin porqué...
Y allí, con tu impiedad,
me vi morir de pie,
medí tu vanidad
y entonces comprendí mi soledad
sin para qué...
Llovía, y te ofrecí, el último café.
Your memory arrives in a turmoil.
It gets dark again in Autumn...
I watch the drizzle, and while I watch
the coffee spoon turns...
Of the last coffee
that your cold lips
requested on that occasion
with the voice of a sigh...
I recall your disdain,
I evoke you for no reason,
I hear you without you being here:
"We are through",
you said in a good bye
of sugar and bitterness...
Just like the coffee,
like the love, like the forgetfulness,
like the final vertigo
of a resentment for no reason...
And there, merciless,
I saw myself die standing up,
I weighed up your vanity
and then I understood my solitude
without what for...
It was raining and I offered you the last coffee

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