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Arrabal so bitter (Arrabal Amargo)

Letra: Alfredo Le Pera | Música: Carlos Gardel |

Arrabal so bitter...

crowding in upon my life

like the punishing sentence

of a malediction,

your images torture

my waking and dreaming;

your night sequesters itself

right inside my heart...

When she was alongside me,

I saw not your sorrows.

Your barrio and misery...

And she was my shining light.

And today, now vanquished,

I drag my soul along,

nailed against these streets of yours

the same as to a cross.

The arrabal's little nook so dear,

with the star-spangled canopy

of your patio that I revere...

It all, it all will be lighted up

when she gazes upon you once more.

And my precious old honeysuckles

will bloom out so they can you adore.

Just like some cloud that is passing

by,

my dreams all go away,

away, and don't return.

Do not tell anyone

that you love me no more.

And if they should question me,

I'll say you're coming,

and that upon your return

my soul will pledge to you.

The eyes of those strangers

won't be one bit surprised;

you'll see how everything

was waiting so anxiously...

my dear little white house,

old rosebush so special --

and how that once again

it will soothe all your pains,

dressed out in fiesta,

my pretty arrabal.

The arrabal's little nook so dear,

with the star-spangled canopy

of your patio that I revere...

It all, it all will be lighted up

when she gazes upon you once more.

And my precious old honeysuckles

will bloom out so they can you adore.

Oh, just like some cloud that is

passing by,

my dreams all go away,

away, and don't return.

(*)"arrabal" -- shabby outskirts of Buenos Aires

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