Malena [English translation]

Malena sings the tango like no one else

and into each verse she pours her heart,

her voice is perfumed with the weeds of the slum,

Malena feels the pain of the bandoneón.

Perhaps there, in her childhood, her lark's voice

filled with that dark tone of the back alley,

or maybe that romance is only mentioned

when she becomes sad with alcohol…

Malena sings the tango with a shadowed voice,

Malena feels the pain of the bandoneón.

Your song

has the coldness of a last encounter,

your song

is bitter with a salty memory.

I don't know

if your voice is the bloom of sorrow,

I only know

that in the murmur of your tangos,

Malena,

I feel you are better,

much better than I.

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Your tangos are abandoned creatures

that cross over the mud of a back alley

when all the doors are closed

and the ghosts of the song bark.

Malena sings the tango with a broken voice;

Malena feels the pain of the bandoneón.

• Artist:Roberto Goyeneche