Perdonenme, compañeros, pero necesito desahogarme

[Xipe Totec]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odXqBrb6ctI

[rabs]

1. Sheesh, reading the subject line

Thought something bad had happened to you. :-)

Nice song, but complicated, going to have to listen to it couple of more times.

Is the letra out there somewhere?

[Xipe Totec]

3. Something bad did happen to me. Well, almost...

My GF was/is about to dump me.

Maybe.

I think she's changing her mind :)

Here is a quick and rough translation:


Our relationship lasted
as long as two pieces of ice last
in a whiskey on the rocks.

Instead of faking it,
or smashing a glass of jealousy,
she started to laugh.

I suddenly found myself
like nobody's dog,
barking at heaven's gate.

She left me a dresser full of grievances,
the taste of honey on my lips,
and frost in my hair.

And they were right;
my lovers,
who said that, before,
I was the bad guy.

With one exception:
this time
I really wanted to love her
and she did not.

And so she parted,
and left my heart
in my bones
and me on my knees.

From the taxi,
and shrugging her shoulders,
she blew me two kisses...
one per cheek.

And I returned
to the curse
of a dresser without her clothes,
to perdition
in bars and drink,
to the Cinderellas
of the street corners
and cafes in Laina
picking up tabs
for soulless people
that loose their temper
in cocaine.
Going mad,
wasting
money and life
And finally, little by little
gave her up for lost.

And I kept,
trying not to drown
Maria with flowers,
to not stalk her
with my long stories
of cold bedsheets,
and empty rooms
to try not to buy her back
with trinkets
or become the puppet
that goes in pilgrimage
with the brotherhood
of Saint Reproach,
I loved her so much,
that to forget her
it took me
nineteen days
and five hundred nights.

The poem continues, it's rather long.
The rest, you'll have to find on your own :)

http://letras.terra.com.br/joaquin-sabina/34773/

:hi:

[Xipe Totec]

4. Today is exactly nineteen days since she dumped me

:evilgrin:

It turned out just like the song said.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Wow, that's gotta sting, still.

Remember, time heals all some wounds!

[Xipe Totec]

6. Nothing but happy memories now

Actually, we parted as friends.

Which is more than I can say for my ex-wife. :evilgrin:

But thanks for the kind thoughts!

[rabs]

7. Now you have five hundred nights ahead

I loved her so much,
that to forget her
it took me
nineteen days
and five hundred nights.
:nopity: :cry: :nopity:

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Me cansé de rogarle,
me cansé de decirle
que yo sin ella
de pena muero...
Ya no queria escucharme...
si sus labios se abrieron
fué pa' decirme...
ya no te quiero.

Yo sentí que mi vida
se perdía en un abismo
profundo y negro
como mi suerte...
quise hallar el olvido
al "estilo Jalisco"
pero aquellos mariachis
y aquel tequila
me hicieron llorar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KlON9ihpTo

Goes better with :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

:hi:

edit to add that that happy you parted as friends. For that you can have a tequila with the beers !!!!!

[Xipe Totec]

8. Para un Menu...

Las novias pasadas son copas vacías;
en ellas pusimos un poco de amor;
el néctar tomamos... huyeron los días...
¡Traed otras copas con nuevo licor!

Champán son las rubias de cutis de azalia;
borgoña los labios de vivo carmín;
los ojos oscuros son vino de Italia,
los verdes y claros son vino del Rin.

Las bocas de grana son húmedas fresas;
las negras pupilas escancian café;
son ojos azules las llamas traviesas,
que trémulas corren como almas del té.

La copa se apura, la dicha se agota;
de un sorbo tomamos mujer y licor...
Dejemos las copas... Si queda una gota,
que beba el lacayo las heces de amor.

- Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, 1888


http://www.poesia-inter.net/mgn002.htm

[Judi Lynn]

2. Never have heard of this Spanish artist before. Thanks! n/t