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Nada (1944)     Nothing
 
Music: José Dames
Lyrics: Horacio Sanguinetti

Rec. by Miguel Caló
with Raul Iriarte
  Tr. Jake Spatz
Recited 06 June 07, Divino Lounge
 
He llegado hasta tu casa...
Yo no sé como he podido!
Si me han dicho que no estás,
que ya nunca volveras,..
Si me han dicho que te has ido!
Cuanta nieve hay en mi alma!
Que silencio hay en tu puerta!
Al llegar hasta el umbral,
un candado de dolor
me detuvo el corazón.

I came all the way to your house here...
I don't know how I was able to!
If only they'd told me you aren't here,
that you're never to return...
If only they'd told me you're gone!
What a snow now falls in my soul,
what a silence there is at your door!
As I came up to the porch,
a padlock full of pain
stopped my heart in chains.

Nada, nada queda de tu casa natal...
solo telarañas que teje el yuyal.
El rosal tampoco existe
y es seguro que se ha muerto al irte tu...
Todo es una cruz!
Nada, nada más que tristeza y quietud...
Nadie que me diga si vives aun...
Donde estas... para decirte
que hoy he vuelto arrepentido
a buscar tu amor?

Nothing, nothing's left of the house where you were born,
nothing now but cobwebs that thread the overgrowth.
The rosebush too, it isn't here
and surely it must have died at your departure...
It's all a cross for me!
Nothing, nothing more than a melancholy calm,
no one who can tell me if you're still alive at all...
Where'd you go... now who can tell you
that I've come back today a changed man
in search of your love?

Ya me alejo de tu casa...
y me voy yo ni se donde...
Sin querer te digo adios
y hasta el eco de tu voz
de la nada me responde.
En la cruz de tu candado
por tu pena yo he rezado...
y ha rodado en tu porton
una lagrima hecha flor
de mi pobre corazon.

Already I put your house behind me
and take myself I know not where...
I wish you goodbye without a choice,
and still the echo of your voice
replies from the vacant air.
At the cross of your lock and chain
I said a prayer for your pain...
and in your doorway there tossed
a flower, that was a tear
my own poor heart has lost.



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