Letra de Azucena Maizani
Música de Azucena Maizani
Traducido por Matt Curtis Waldroop
Approaching is nighttime…
And soon you’ll be rising…
You’ll sally forth briskly to hunt up
a new dame.
You’ll shine proudly with all your
stamp of elegance
settled very suavely
on your so regal frame.
You will stroll down Corrientes…
You will stroll down Florida…
The life that you lead is
swanker than a pasha’s.
Of regal liaisons you have more than
your share;
with all your class and your money
you will have them all.
But I know that a torch you bear yet;
You live suffering for an old flame,
and you seek a way to forget
by changing from dame to dame…
I know that from midnight until dawn,
when the partytimes have gone,
your spirits feel so low and
oppressed
by memories that won’t let you rest,
and that you begin to cry.
With all of that adventure,
with all of your great fortune,
you carry on your life
only in pleasured state.
And with all of that money
which you have always had,
all of your caprices
you managed to sate.
You think that all this glitter
which you sport easily
is not known by people as just purest
disguise.
Your vanity of nitwits
deceives them very well…
And you hope that no one
ever knows the lies.
But I know that a torch you bear yet;
you live suffering for an old flame,
and you seek a way to forget
by changing from dame to dame…
I know that from midnight until dawn,
when the partytimes have gone,
your spirits feel so low and
oppressed
by memories that won’t let you rest,
and that you begin to cry…