Tango Lyrics in Spanish and English
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YIRA, YIRA
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Cruisin’, cruisin’ (1926)
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Music by: Carlos Gardel | |||
Lyrics by: Alfredo Lepera | |||
Translated by: Frank Sasson | |||
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In Yira, yira, Enrique Santos Discepolo rflects upon the inevitable end of our lives and the plight of those who live cruising and cruising throughr life without ever finding a purpose and life, cruising I've taken the liberty to suggest a couple of technical changes on Yira, yira which reflect a little closer the message conveyed by Discepolin. Grela, for example, is one of many pejorative names given to women. When Discepolo says that "luck is grela" he's associating the consequences of having luck dodge you with the consequences of "bad" things "women do to men". Yirar is indeed a lingo originally associated with the cruising of the street walkers. It has also been adopted as a way to describe the action of walking aimlesly, cruising, drifting. Yira or Yiro is also a name commonly used to address a street walker. Largar para'o (Largar parado) has the meaning of being abandoned. Otario is an idiot, a sap. | |||
Version en castellano | English translation | ||
Cuando la suerte que es grela
ando y fallando, te largue parao, cuando estes bien en la via, sin rumbo desesperao. Cuando no tengas ni fe, ni yerba de ayer, secandose al sol... Cuando rajes los tamangos buscando ese mango que te haga morfar... La indiferencia del mundo que es sordo y es mudo, recien sentiras. Veras que todo es mentira, veras que nada es amor que al mundo nada le importa, Yira...yira... Aunque te quiebre la vida, aunque te muerda un dolor, no esperes nunca una ayuda ni una mano...ni un favor. Cuando esten secas las pilas de todos los timbres que vos apretas... buscando un pecho fraterno para morir...Abrazao... Cuando te larguen parao despues de cinchar lo mismo que a mi. Cuando manyes que a tu lado se prueban la ropa que vas a dejar, te acordaras de este otario que un dia cansado se puso a ladrar. Aunque te quiebre la vida, aunque te muerda un dolor, no esperes nunca una ayuda ni una mano...ni un favor. |
When luck which is very bad
ng and missing, leaves you alone, When you're well on the way Without desperate direction When you don't even have faith Nor yesterday's weed (mate) Being dried by the sun When you split the dancing shoes Looking for that dough To be able to eat You will now feel The indifference of that deaf and dumb world. You'll see that everything is a lie You'll see that nothing is love That the world doesn't care Yira yira *1 Even though life will break you Even if a pain will bite you Don't ever expect a help Nor a hand .... Nor a favor When the batteries Of all the bells you ring, have dried up, While looking for a brotherly chest To die in an embrace When they leave you alone *2 After cinching* The same as myself When you notice that beside you They're trying on the clothes That you are leaving, You will remember this otario *3 That one day, tired Started to bark Even though life will break you Even if a pain will bite you Don't ever expect a help Nor a hand .... Nor a favor |
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