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Como dos extraños     Like two strangers
 
Music: Pedro Laurenz
Lyrics: José María Contursi
Rec. by Pedro Laurenz
  Tr. Jake Spatz
Recited 08 March 2006, Divino Lounge
 
Me acobardó la soledad
y el miedo enorme
de morir lejos de tí...
Qué ganas tuve de llorar,
sintiendo junto a mí
la burla de la realidad.
El corazón me suplicó
que te buscara
y que te diera su querer...
Me lo pedía el corazón
y entonces te busqué,
creyéndote mi salvación.

Being alone—it terrified me,
and so did the huge fear
of dying nowhere near you...
What an urge I had to cry,
sensing beside me
the ridicule of how things are...
My heart implored me
to seek you out
and to give you all its love—
it was begging me, my heart,
and so I sought you out,
thinking that you'd save me.

Y ahora que estoy frente a tí
parecemos ya ves dos extraños...
Lección que por fin aprendí,
Cómo cambian las cosas los años.
Angustia de saber, muertas ya,
la ilusión y la fe.
Perdón si me ves lagrimear,
los recuerdos me han hecho mal.

And now that I'm standing before you,
already we seem two strangers...
A lesson I'm only learning now...
The years, how they make things change.
It's anguish to know that, long dead now,
are the hopefulness and the faith...
Sorry if you see me welling up,
my memories have done me badly.

Palideció la luz del sol,
al escucharte fríamente conversar.
Fue tan distinto nuestro amor
y duele comprobar,
que todo, todo terminó.
Qué gran error volverte a ver
para llevarme destrozado el corazón.
Son mil fantasmas al volver,
burlándose de mi
las horas de ese muerto ayer.

The light of the sun went dim,
to hear you speak so coolly.
The love we had was so unique
and it hurts to see for sure
that everything, everything's over.
What a big mistake to come see you,
just to bring my heart home destroyed...
They return as a thousand phantoms,
laughing at my expense,
the hours of that dead yesterday...



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