Tango Lyrics in Spanish and English

NOSTALGIAS

Nostalgias (1936)

Music by: Juan Carlos Cobian

Lyrics by: Enrique Cadicamo

Translated by: Dario Mendiguren

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Last Updated: 12/05/00

Version en castellano

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Quiero emborrachar mi corazon
para olvidar un loco amor
que mas que amor es un sufrir...
Y aqui vengo para eso,
a borrar antiguos besos
en los besos de otras bocas.
Si su amor fue flor de un dia,
por que causa es siempre mia
esta cruel preocupacion.
Quiero, por los dos, mi copa alzar
para olvidar mi obstinacion,
y mas la vuelvo a recordar.

Nostalgias
de escuchar su risa loca
y sentir junto a mi boca
como un fuego su respiracion...
Angustias
de sentirme abandonado
y sentir que otro a su lado
pronto, pronto le hablara de amor...
Hermano,
yo no quiero rebajarme
ni pedirle ni rogarle
ni decirle que no puedo mas vivir.
Desde mi triste soledad
vere caer las rosas muertas
de mi juventud.

Gime, bandoneon, tu tango gris
quizas a ti te hiera igual
algun amor sentimental...
Llora mi alma de fantoche
sola y triste en esta noche,
noche negra y sin estrellas.
Si las copas traen consuelo,
aqui estoy con mi desvelo
para ahogarlo de una vez.
Quiero emborrachar al corazon
para despues poder brindar
por los fracasos del amor.

I want to drown my heart with wine
to extinguish a crazy love
that more than love, is pain…
And that's what I'm here for,
to erase those old kisses
with other lips' kisses.
If her love was short lived,
why is this cruel preoccupation
always living in me?
I want to drink for both of us
to forget this obsession,
but I remember her even more.

The nostalgia
for her laughter,
for feeling her fire-like breath
next to my lips…
The anguish
of being abandoned
and of thinking that soon another will
whisper tender words to her…
Brother,
I don't want the humiliation
of begging, crying,
of telling her I can't live without her.
From my sad solitude
I will see the falling of the lifeless roses
of my youth.

Moan, bandoneon, your sad tango
maybe you also are in pain
for a broken love…
Cry my silly, lonely and
sad soul tonight,
dark, starless night.
If drinks bring relief,
here I am with my sorrow
to drown it at once.
I want to drown my heart with wine
to then make a toast
to my defeated love.