Adiós Madrid

(Milonga song)

Sweet Madrid, tough Madrid,
licorice heart;
April has arrived, I'm leaving here,
I'll sing in another country.

Sweet Madrid, tough Madrid,
Madrid hurts, tender Madrid.
I would have been in your streets
a lost child, if you had wanted
to throw me away and hate me.

Chorus
Sweet Madrid, sweet Madrid, tough Madrid,
licorice heart.

You believe the sun is Spanish
-dreams of your heart-;
but it's true that a city
can be far from the sea.

Madrid hurts, let me go,
I am corn to you,
and I was born where in April
a plant of salt is born from the sea
that extends and, beyond Argentina, bends
and turns corn into flour.

Chorus
Corn into flour...

You know Madrid, I gave you nothing,
you let me sleep;
I was a harlequin, sweet Madrid,
dreaming of my country.

Goodbye Madrid. I return to live.
Hard root, I feel upon leaving
that something of me stays here
forever: the burning illusion of loving you,
being strong and leaving you, without stopping loving you.

Chorus
Thank you Madrid!

Solo
I return to live!

Chorus
Tough Madrid

Solo
Sweet Madrid

Chorus
Goodbye Madrid

Solo
April has arrived.

Chorus
And this song that I give you...

Solo
I also take it with me...

Chorus
It was born from you. Madrid.

In the second version, published in a different run of the same album, the choruses appear as follows:
* Sweet Madrid, tough Madrid, / licorice heart.
** (Solo) Madrid hurts, let me go, / I am corn to you.
(Chorus) From that country...
(Solo) And I was born where in April / a plant of salt is born from the sea /...
*** The country into flour...
**** (Chorus) It was born from you.
(Solo) It was born from you.
(Chorus) Madrid.