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Nostalgias lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo I want to get my heart drunk so I can snuff out a crazy love that more than love, is just suffering… and I come here for this, to erase the old kisses with kisses from other mouths… If her love was a one-day bloom what’s the reason that I … Continue reading
Humiliation lyrics by Carlos Bahr I knew nothing of the love that kneels, babbling out pleas, tame from conceits. And this was how, with flaws that still humiliate me, that in my delirium, I came to love you. Today as I wake up faced with your half-hearted passion, in my conscience that felt too full of … Continue reading
Moorings lyrics by Carmelo Santiago I wander like a suffering shadow beneath this gray veranda I reflect on myself and I am nothing… I am like my little coal skiff that stays shored up— it lives tied fast to the shore. And so I too, tied fast to my past am an anchored ship and I feel … Continue reading
Red Ink lyrics by Cátulo Castillo music by Sebastián Piana A big stone wall, [1] red ink over yesterday’s grey, the emotion of your happy bricks over my little alleyway took a blot and painted the corner and that copper [2] who in the depths of night walked the borders of his beat like a … Continue reading
Old Gateway lyrics by Máximo Orsi music by Hector Palacios Plea of the wind, voices from the plains, anguished prayers, sorrow’s laments. Wandering birds that one spring, a fiery sun scorched with love. The affection was strong as a carob tree— but a blow from time’s axe cleaved it so easily. And today in the long … Continue reading
Poesía de gotán: The Poetry of the Tango 