SOLEDAD (EN INGLXS)

SOLEDAD (EN INGLÉS)
Letra de Alfredo Le Pera, trad. Coby Lubliner
Musica de Carlos Gardel

I don't ever want anyone to tell me
That you've removed me from your sweet life once and for all.
My heart is begging for a lie to help me
While I wait for your most unlikely call.
I don't want anybody to imagine
How bitter and how deep is the loneliness I know.
The nights go by and the minute hand keeps grinding
With its nightmarish ticktock so very slow.

Now in the painful shadow of my room, as I await
Her steps that will perhaps not come again,
Sometimes it seems to me as if they only stop their gait,
Not daring then to come on in.
But there is no one, and she isn't coming,
It's just a ghost that gives my false hope a start,
And as it fades away, the vision of her comes apart,
And ashes are left in my heart.

On the silvery dial of the clock
The agonizing hours refuse to move for days.
There's a parade of strange, outlandish figures
That look upon me with a mocking gaze.
It's like a caravan that's never-ending,
That with its ghostly grin sinks in a forgetful haze.
And then your mouth, which was mine, is leaving with it.
Only the anguish of my heartache stays.