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Recién     Only now
 
Music: Osvaldo Pugliese
Lyrics: Homero Manzi
(1) Rec. by Ricardo Tanturi
with Enrique Campos

(2) Rec. by Pedro Laurenz
with Alberto Podestá
  Tr. Jake Spatz
Recited 30 August 2006, Divino Lounge
 
Hoy, recién, recién,
vuelvo otra vez a tu lado con mi vida.
Escondiendo los fracasos.
Ocultando las heridas.

Today, only now, only now,
do I bring my life back to your side again,
with such failures to cover up,
with so many wounds to hide.

Y hoy al encontrar
la protección de tus manos tan serenas
recién siento que me apena
saber que te hice mal.

And today, only as I find
the haven of your too-untroubled hands,
do I sense what sorrows are mine
to know I've done you wrong.

Tenía menos años
y el corazón imprudente
por calles del engaño
rodó, rodó torpemente.

A couple years the younger,
imprudent then and clumsy,
the heart went knocking about
the side-roads of deceit.

Me amabas tanto y tanto
que me cansó tu tristeza.
Y por no escuchar tu llanto
preferí no verte más.

You kept on loving me so much
that I wearied of your sadness.
And so as to not hear your weeping
I preferred to see you no more.

Hoy, recién, recién
miro las cosas sin sombras no mentiras
y comprendo cuánto enseñan
las lecciones de la vida.

Today, only now, only now,
I look at things without shadows, without lies,
and I understand how much they teach
the lessons of life.

Hoy, al retornar,
pensé encontrar el reproche de tu olvido
y tan solo hallé el castigo
de todo tu perdón.

Today, I thought by returning
I'd face the rebuke of your having moved on,
only to discover my punishment
is that you forgive me all.



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