Milonga de contrapunto II

(Alfredo Zitarrosa is the author of the lyrics and each one composed the music for their part Milonga)

(Y.P.)

I don't know how long I'll live
or how much it will cost me
but more than half
of the life I lived
working, I lost
to please someone
who doesn't know that I too
am going to have fun

(A.Z.)

When I start to sing
I feel like I'm missing verses
but the worst part is that I think
I won't find them
I don't know if I should dream
of seeing the light of dawn
because the future delays
and even though I know it will come
I don't want to wait for it
singing like now

(Y.P.)

Look what a coincidence
the milonga told me
that even if I don't sing it
my town will sing it
because there is no one who knows more
milongas than that singer
nor do I know a more
graceful and popular troubadour

(A.Z.)

I feel that the copla doesn't lie to me
when it refuses
the blood that doesn't give me
it keeps it as a seed
but if the people are a torrent
and if the song is their sound
I ask him to explain
why there is no song
sung by a singer
that doesn't fall into oblivion

(Y.P.)

I'm going to answer
giving my opinion
neither man nor woman
will be able to achieve it
the one who starts to sing
doesn't sing for later
it's sung only that time
if it's sung truly

(A.Z.)

From what you're saying
I draw the conclusion
that there is no better song
than the one sung with ability
but if I'm understanding
I ask you to let me know
if the singer goes back on his word
or stops singing
when it's time to give
his life for what he says

(Y.P.)

Look, buddy, here
there are many people who didn't
come for the two of us
or just to listen
there are a thousand ways to fight
I know which is the best
that's why I became a singer
and I know what to sing

(A.Z.)

I just explained
what's happening to me
the pain I'm feeling
is what I want to leave you
if I showed off
as a presumptuous versifier
forgive me, I ask you
consider that the singer
couldn't be a payador
that's why he's badly wounded

(Y.P.)

Count on a friend here
who sings with conviction

(A.Z.)

You'll see that at any moment
you'll count on me

(Y.P.)

See, it's like I told you
that the fruit is ripe

(A.Z.)

I wasn't so sure
but I'm glad to think

(Together)

that the people will give us
the songs of the future

(The punctuation is by Alfredo Zitarrosa)