samedi 29 août 2020

SONG AND DANCE FOR A SATURDAY AFTERNOON

La retirada

La distancia entre los dos

es cada día más grande.

De tu amor y de mi amor

no está quedando nada.

 

Sin embargo, el corazón

no quiere resignarse

a escuchar el triste adiós

que sea tu retirada.

 

Cuando te hayas ido ya,

pedazo de mi vida,

si aguanté la soledad,

recuérdame un poquito.

 

Porque yo te supe amar

derecho y sin mentiras

y te voy a recordar

por Dios que muy bonito.

 

Déjame algo de recuerdo,

una lágrima y un beso

y un cachito de tu pelo.

De mí no te lleves nada

porque ya lo tienes todo,

yo soy tuyo, sólo tuyo.

 

La distancia entre los dos

es cada día más grande.

De tu amor y de mi amor

no está quedando nada.

 

Sin embargo, el corazón

no quiere resignarse

a escuchar el triste adiós

que sea tu retirada...

 



This song is associated with the great Mexican singer of Boleros, Javier Solis who died at a very young age (complications of gallbladder surgery). He is very well remembered in Mexico.

The withdrawal

The distance between us two

is larger every day.

Of your love and my love

there's, hardly, anything left.

 

Even though, the heart

doesn't want to submit itself

to hear the sad good-bye

that will be your withdrawal.

 

Once you are gone,

part of my life,

if I bore loneliness,

remember me a little.

 

Because I knew how to love you,

straight and without lies,

and I will remember you,

God bless! in a very nice way.

 

Leave me something to remember,

a tear and a kiss,

and a little bit of your hair.

From me, don't take with you anything

because you already have it all,

I am yours, only yours.

 

The distance between us two

is larger everyday.

Of your love and my love

there's, hardly, anything left.

 

Even though, the heart

doesn't want to submit itself

to hear the sad good-bye

that will be your withdrawal.

 


I was listening to some Tango on this lazy saturday afternoon when the song came on... I wondered whether these two are related.. let us see 


so this is the song and dance for the afternoon 

when the hearts are so full of affections 

and in these estranged times

let us do a tango in our imagination..



and if you want just a piano instrumental of the song here it is


so on this afternoon where the afternoon has cleansed the earth of Miami, my mind is steadily wandering 

Paris  the city of Lights , on and off in love with Paris 

Buenos Aires, the city I was in love with once upon a time 

Miami and Havana my twin homes, I would rather be in Havana 

and Brasil with its sonorous language is creeping into my heart.



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