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Quiero verte una vez mas     I've got to see you one more time
 
Music: Mario Canaro
Lyrics: José María Contursi
Rec. by Francisco Canaro
  Tr. Jake Spatz
Recited 01 Feb. 2006, Divino Lounge
 
Tarde, que me invita a conversar
   con los recuerdos...
pena de esperarte y de llorar
   en este encierro!
Tanto en mi amargura te busque
   sin encontrarte
cuando... cuando, vida, moriré
   para olvidarte!

Twilights now invite me to converse
   with memory's apparitions...
condemned to weep and want you all the worse
   within this prison!
I sought you in my heartbreak far and wide
   and went without you...
Say when, O when, dear life, I'm going to die
   and forget about you!

Quiero verte una vez mas,
   amada mia,
y extasiarme en el mirar
   de tus pupilas!
Quiero verte una vez mas,
   aunque me digas
que ya todo terminó
y es inutil remover
las cenizas de un amor...

I've got to see you one more time,
   my lovely baby,
and see the pupils of your eyes
   still drive me crazy!
I've got to see you one more time,
   even if you tell me
that it's all quite over now
and it's useless poking round
in the ashes of a love...

Quiero verte una vez mas—
   estoy tan triste!
y no puedo recordar
   por que te fuiste...
Quiero verte una vez mas,
   y en mi agonia
un alivio sentiré
y olvidado en mi rincon
mas tranquilo moriré!

I've got to see you one more time—
   I live so sadly!
and I can't remember why
   you left so madly...
I've got to see you one more time,
   and in my anguish
feel one atom of relief
so that forgotten in my corner
I can more calmly die of grief!

Noche que consigues envolver
   mis pensamientos...
Quejas que buscando nuestro ayer
   las lleva el viento!
Sangre que ha vertido el corazón
   al evocarte...
fiebre que me abrasa la razon
   sin olvidarte!

Nighttimes now, you wrap around my thoughts,
   and your hold increases...
My moans in search of yesterday are lost
   on passing breezes!
The blood runs high in my heart and even higher
   to think I met you...
A fever sears my reason with its fire,
   and I can't forget you!

Quiero verte una vez mas—
   estoy tan triste!
y no puedo recordar
   por que te fuiste...
Quiero verte una vez mas,
   y en mi agonia
un alivio sentiré
y olvidado en mi rincon
mas tranquilo moriré!

I've got to see you one more time—
   I live so sadly!
and I can't remember why
   you left so madly...
I've got to see you one more time,
   and in my anguish
feel one atom of relief
so that forgotten in my corner
I can more calmly die of grief!



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