Letra de Alfredo Le Pera
Música de Carlos Gardel
Traducido por Matt Curtis Waldroop
«DOWNHILL»
If I dragged on through this world
with me
the shame of what I once used to be,
and the dolor of no more that
being…
Under the brim of my fedora
how many times has been concealed
a teardrop about to be revealed
I could not keep containing.
If I passed down the roads for me
like a pariah that Destiny
was persistent in destroying…
If I was weak, if I was blind…
I just want them to comprehend
the valor that does represent
the courage of ones loving.
She’d been…for me then my life’s
everything,
just like a sun that’s shining in
spring,
my aspiration and my passión.
I knew that…the whole world could
not encompass
the total of the humble happiness
of my poor heart’s small ration.
And now…downhill tumbling in my
fallen state,
the illusions of yester date
I just can’t uproot and discard.
I dream…of the days gone by for
which I sigh,
the good old times for which I cry,
and which never will return…
Trailing behind in her footprints,
I drank down so untiringly
from my cupful of dolor.
But then, no one comprehended
that if my all I was giving,
at every turn I was leaving
some pieces of my own heart.
And now, woeful in my steep descent,
solitary and defeated,
I am wanting to confess:
If that mouth was speaking out
falsely
the amor that it was offering me,
for those oh so bewitching eyes
I would have always given more.
She’d been…for me then my life’s
everything,
just like a sun that’s shining in
spring,
my aspiration and my passión.
I knew that…the whole world could
not encompass
the total of the humble happiness
of my poor heart’s small ration.
And now…downhill tumbling in my
fallen state,
the illusions of yester date
I just can’t uproot and discard.
I dream…of the days gone by for
which I sigh,
the good old times for which I cry,
and which never will return…