Canción Desesperada
Enrique Santos Discépolo, 1945.
Song of Despair
Translation Jordana del Feld
I
am a song of despair!
A crazed leaf drowning in the storm!
For your love, my unmoored faith
annihilated itself, destroying my heart.
I
lost myself inside myself
blind and crying for a dream...
I
am a demand that won't die
that screams of grief and betrayal!
WHY
did they teach me to love
if all it does is heartlessly throw me overboard
into the dreams of the sea
If love is an old enemy
and hurls punishments at us
and teaches us to cry...
I ask
WHY?
Yes! Why did they teach me to love
if loving you just kills my love?
Cruel mocking taunts, to give all for nothing
and at the end of goodbye, to abandon all hope
and then to cry....
WHERE
was God when you went away?
WHERE
was the sun when you wouldn't come?
HOW
can it be that a woman never understands
that a man gives it all, when he gives his love?
WHO
makes them believe in other destinies?
WHO
destroys the dream?
I
am a song of despair
that screams of grief and betrayal!
Canción Desesperada. Francisco Canaro y Nelly Omar.
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