Milonga del que se ausenta

(Milonga)

Version by Alfredo Zitarrosa:

I started loving her just because, for nothing...
It was like falling asleep on the guitar
and dream milongas, figures and zambas.
It came as the day comes in the bowers:
a handful of trills, a murmur of wings,
and a kiss on the beak, like a calandria.
I was healing a wound that had been bleeding for a long time,
of spite and rage, and she with her kisses and her white hands,
He wove a spider web to heal it.*

I walk away from you, I can't cry,
My song remains in the night,
marking distances.

How sad tomorrow must be
without a hope.
How dark the path of life
if there is no light in the soul.

I walk away from you, I can't forget
that you looked at the sky and the tears in your eyes
trembling he appeared.

The rain may tell you when it falls
that on some road gets wet with tears
my poor handkerchief.

Don't wait in vain for the return
behind your window,
the clouds that cross the sky today,
You don't have to see tomorrow.

I walk away from you, I want to cry,**
but excited looking at the road
my eyes blur.

In the version of the album "Candombe del olvido", from 1979, he says:
* He wove cobwebs to heal her.
** I walk away from you, I can't cry.

(Texts in italics correspond to recited parts)