Ausencia

Absence

The orchestra comes out marking the beat
with this weepy tango.
I want to hear it happily,
feel it and dance it
singing its tune.
Let its notes fly searching for the love
that my joy dreamed of,
its sounds are not strange,
because twenty years ago it was born with me.

Tonight I want to hear your melody
to laugh with you until the end,
I want to mercilessly kill my sorrow;
I never want to be sentimental again.
I feel the nostalgic yesterday and still
I want to live my childhood with its crystal.

(Spoken. Piano solo.)
And my tango, with a soul from yesterday,
I hear it speaking to me in its laments.

I who cradled your childhood
in the sweet quietness,
wanted to offer you afterwards
a happy youth...
You moved away from the sun...
and in the fatal night
you mistook your role
among the nocturnal light.

That's why tango, I want you to
when I leave from here,
accompany me with your sounds
and the bandoneons
that moan for me...
If the violins wanted to cry
and the piano dies of love,
with musical innocence,
cry for my absence
if no one cried.
ABSENCE
Waltz
Music: Carlos Gardel / José Razzano
Lyrics: Francisco Bianco

Your absence keeps me awake
suffering my good without ceasing
and your name comes to my memory
reminding me more of my sorrow.
It's in vain to cry,
nothing calms the pain
that torments my beaten down being
destroying my faithful heart.
Come back soon, alleviate the distress,
because your absence is killing me, oh me!
no one dries the afflicted tears
that my eyes shed for you.
Wandering aimlessly, without faith,
defying the pain,
having no shelter other than the sky
and waiting for my love to return.
My passion was tender and is tender
and you, on the other hand, don't know how to love.
What reason have I given you, my soul,
to make me suffer like this?
It's in vain to cry,
nothing calms the pain
that torments my beaten down being
destroying my throne of love.