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Neighborhood Romance

Mercedes Sosa

Romance de Barrio

Primero la cita lejana de abril
Tu oscuro balcón, tu antiguo jardín
Más tarde las cartas de pulso febril
Mintiendo que no, jurando que sí.
Romance de barrio, tu amor y mi amor
Primero un querer, después un dolor
Por culpas que nunca tuvimos
Por culpas que debimos sufrir los dos.

Hoy vivirás despreciándome,tal vez sín soñar
Que lamento al no poderte tener
El dolor de no saber olvidar
Hoy estarás como nunca lejos mío
Lejos de tanto llorar fué porque si, que el despecho te cegó como a mí
Sín mirar que en el rencor del adiós
Castigabas con crueldad tu corazón,
Fué porque sí, que de pronto no supimos pensar
Que es más facil renegar y partir que vivir sín olvidar

Ceniza del tiempo la cita de abril,
Tu oscuro balcón, tu antiguo jardín,
Las cartas trazadas con mano febril,
Mintiendo que no, jurando que sí.
Retornan vencidas tu voz y mi voz
Trayendo al volver con tonos de horror
Las culpas que nunca tuvimos,
Las culpas que debimos pagar los dos.

Neighborhood Romance

First the distant April date
Your dark balcony, your old garden
Later the letters with a feverish pulse
Lying that it's not true, swearing that it is
Neighborhood romance, your love and my love
First a desire, then a pain
For faults we never had
For faults we both should suffer

Today you'll live despising me, maybe without dreaming
That I regret not being able to have you
The pain of not knowing how to forget
Today you'll be like never before far from me
Far from crying so much it was because yes, that spite blinded you like me
Without realizing that in the resentment of goodbye
You were cruelly punishing your heart,
It was because yes, that suddenly we didn't know how to think
That it's easier to deny and leave than to live without forgetting

Ashes of time the April date,
Your dark balcony, your old garden,
The letters drawn with a feverish hand,
Lying that it's not true, swearing that it is.
Our voices return defeated,
Bringing back with tones of horror
The faults we never had,
The faults we both should pay for.

Escrita por: Aníbal Troilo / Homero Manzi