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Tu boca mintió (No me mires) (1951)

Lies from Your Lips (Don’t Look at Me!)
(1951)
Music by Armando Angeletti

Lyrics by Alberto Longo

When I meet you, I’m begging you not to look at me,
Because your gaze rekindles my pain;
Follow your road, your flowered path,
Let my life go on without you;
Otherwise one day when I’ve had too many drinks
I may throw away my manhood and my honor.

I…tore my life,
my home, and my faith to pieces for you…
Now…there are only ashes left
of everything we had yesterday;
I dreamed of a world of love and hopes
That night when, between kisses, I called you mine,
Now from the depths of my soul I curse
that distant dream, the lies from your lips…

You’ve hurt me, my life has always been
Your toy, passion and pain;
I don’t want to see you anymore, I wanted to forget you,
to kill my feelings with another fantasy;
Otherwise one day when I’ve had too many drinks
I may throw away my manhood and my honor.

Orquesta Juan D’Arienzo, singer Roberto Lemos (1951)

Orquesta Juan D’Arienzo, singer Armando Laborde (1954)

(Spanish original after the jump)

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