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“Life Is a Milonga”
Music & lyrics by Fernando Montón y Rodolfo Sciammarella Continue reading
On March 1, 2006 I landed at Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires. I was 19 years old. Continue reading
Seeing Each Other Again lyrics by Luis Castiñeira I loved you so much, so very much– just thinking about it makes me weep… how sad are memories such as these! Seeing each other again was a mere dream and you won’t come, I know that you won’t come! I know that everything, every last thing … Continue reading
Life is Short lyrics by Francisco Gorrindo Let’s see, boys—I want to be joyful, I want to be dazed, so I don’t have to think. Life is short and you must live it, and just set reality aside. You must forget about sacrifice— what it costs to live, and to win your bread— and on these nights of … Continue reading
Returning lyrics by Alfredo Le Pera, music by Carlos Gardel I can make out the twinkling of the far-off lights that signal my return— the same ones whose pale reflections used to illuminate the deepest hours of my sorrow. And though I didn’t want to come back, you always return to your first love, the same old street where … Continue reading
Poesía de gotán: The Poetry of the Tango 