Letra de Enrique Cadícamo
Música de Juan Carlos Cobian
Compuesto en 1936
I want to drown my heart with wine
to extinguish a crazy love
that more than love, is pain
And that’s what I’m here for,
to erase those old kisses
with other lips’ kisses.
If her love was short lived,
why is this cruel preoccupation
always living in me?
I want to drink for both of us
to forget this obsession,
but I remember her even more.
The nostalgia
for her laughter,
for feeling her fire-like breath
next to my lips
The anguish
of being abandoned
and of thinking that soon another will
whisper tender words to her
Brother,
I don’t want the humiliation
of begging, crying,
of telling her I can’t live without her.
From my sad solitude
I will see the falling of the lifeless roses
of my youth.
Moan, bandoneón, your sad tango
maybe you also are in pain
for a broken love
Cry my silly, lonely and
sad soul tonight,
dark, starless night.
If drinks bring relief,
here I am with my sorrow
to drown it at once.
I want to drown my heart with wine
to then make a toast
to my defeated love.