Nostalgias [English translation]

I want to get my heart drunk

to forget some crazy love

that is more suffering than love.

So here I am

willing to erase old kisses

with others' mouths kisses...

If her love was just a flash in the pan

Why this cruel concern

is always with me?

I want to rise a glass for both of us

in order to forget my stubbornness

and I only remember it even more.

Nostalgia of hearing her crazy laughter

and feeling by my mouth

her breathing, like a fire.

Distress,

because I feel forsaken

and I think another man

will speak words of love to her soon, soon.

Brother!

I don't want to humiliate myself

neither beg her or cry for her

or tell her I can't live anymore.

From my sad solitude I will watch

the dead roses of my youth as they fall.

***

Cry, bandoneon 1, your grey tango

maybe some sentimental love

hurts you too as well.

My soul, the soul of a puppet, weeps

lonely and sad in this night,

a black an starless night.

If alcohol bring some comfort,

well, here I am in my sleeplessness

so I can drown my sorrows already.

I want to get my heart drunk

and later I'll be able to make a toast

for the failures of love.

1. A type of concertina used especially in South America.

• Artist:Sara Montiel
• Album:Mi último tango (1960)