Diez Años (Ten Years)
Music: Cayetano Puglisi
Lyrics: Pascual De Gregorio
Translation: Felipe & Ayano
Recorded by Francisco Canaro with Ernesto Famá in 1934
Music: Cayetano Puglisi
Lyrics: Pascual De Gregorio
Translation: Felipe & Ayano
Recorded by Francisco Canaro with Ernesto Famá in 1934
Diez años transcurrieron desde entonces
cuando temblando llegué hasta ti,
diez años que sirvieron para hundirme
y quitarme hasta las ganas de vivir...
Entonces, buenamente yo soñaba
un mundo nuevo, para los dos.
Y Dios, allá en el cielo solo sabe,
hasta dónde yo he llegado por tu amor.
(Instrumental)
(Unsung Part)
Cuántas veces en mi pecho has sollozado,
cuántas noches en mis brazos te he acunado.
Y esas horas de ternuras no han servido
para atarte como yo me ató a tu amor...
Otra boca hoy te seduce con sus besos,
y me dejas sin pensar en mi dolor...
Diez años que son mi juventud
destrozados por tu cruel ingratitud.
Ninguna como yo sabrá brindarte,
tanta ternura, tanta lealtad,
yo fui con tu dolor como una madre
como nadie te he sabido consolar...
Andate... No me dejes ni el recuerdo.
No quiero nada, nada de vos...
Que Dios allá en el cielo solo sabe
hasta dónde yo he llegado por tu amor.
Ten years have passed since then
when I arrived at you shaking,
ten years that made me sink
and took away even my will to live…
Back then, willfully I dreamed
a new world for the two of us.
And only God knows up in Heaven,
how far I have come for your love.
(Instrumental)
(Unsung Part)
How many times have you sobbed against my chest?
How many nights have I cradled you in my arms?
Yet those hours of tenderness were not enough
to bind you to me, the way I have bound myself to your love...
Now, another’s lips seduce you with their kisses,
and you leave me behind, giving no thought to my pain...
Ten years—my very youth—
shattered by your cruel ingratitude.
No one else will ever be able to offer you
such tenderness, such loyalty;
I was like a mother to you in your suffering—
no one else knew how to comfort you as I did...
Go... Leave me not even a memory.
I want nothing—nothing at all—from you...
Only God, up in heaven, knows
the lengths to which I went for the sake of your love.