Que Vachache (What Can You Do)
Music: Enrique Santos Discépolo
Lyrics: Enrique Santos Discépolo
Translation: Felipe & Ayano
Recorded by Carlos Gardel in 1928
Music: Enrique Santos Discépolo
Lyrics: Enrique Santos Discépolo
Translation: Felipe & Ayano
Recorded by Carlos Gardel in 1928
Pianta de aquí, no vuelvas en tu vida
Ya me tenés bien requeteamurada
No puedo más pasarla sin comida
Ni oírte así decir tanta pavada
¿No te das cuenta, que sos un engrupido?
¿Te crees que al mundo lo vas a arreglar vos?
Si aquí ni Dios rescata lo perdido
Pianta de aquí, Hace el favor
Lo que hace falta es empacar mucha moneda
Vender el alma, rifar el corazón
Tirar la poca decencia que te queda
Plata, mucha plata. Y plata otra vez.
Así es posible que morfes todos los días
Tengas amigos, casa, nombre... y lo que quieras vos
El verdadero amor se ahogó en la sopa
La panza es reina y el dinero es Dios
Pero no ves, otalio engominado
Que la razón la tiene el de más guita
Que la honradez la venden al contado
Y a la Moral la dan por moneditas
Que no hay ninguna verdad que se resista
Frente a diez mangos moneda nacional
Vos resultás, haciendo el Moralista
Un disfraza'o... sin carnaval
¡Tirate al río! No embromes con tu consciencia
Sos un secante que no hace ni reír
Dame puchero, guárdate la decencia
Vento, mucha vento. Yo quiero vivir
¿Qué culpa tengo si has pilla'o la vida en serio?
Pasas de otario, morfas aire y no tenés colchón
¿Qué vachache? Hoy ya murió el criterio
Vale Jesús lo mismo que un ladrón.
Get lost, and don't you ever come back.
You've really left me high and dry.
I can't go on without a bite to eat,
Or listening to you spout such nonsense.
Don't you realize you're just a deluded fool?
Do you think you're going to fix the world?
When not even God can salvage what's lost here—
Just get lost, do me a favor.
What you need is to rake in the cash,
Sell your soul, raffle off your heart,
Throw away whatever decency you have left—
Money, lots of money. And money again.
That way, you might actually eat every day,
Have friends, a home, a reputation... whatever you want.
True love drowned in the soup;
The belly is queen, and money is God.
But don't you see, you slick-haired sap?
That the guy with the most dough is the one who's right,
That honesty is sold for cash on the barrelhead,
And Morality is traded for pocket change?
That no truth can hold its ground
Against ten pesos in hard cash?
Playing the Moralist just makes you look like
A guy in a costume... with no carnival to show for it.
Go jump in the river! Stop harping on about your conscience;
You're a drag who isn't even funny.
Give me a stew; keep your decency for yourself.
Cash, lots of cash. I want to live.
Is it my fault you took life too seriously?
You look like a fool, starving, and got nothing to fall back on.
What can you do? Good sense is dead and buried;
Jesus is worth the same as a thief.