Tinta roja
Alfredo Zitarrosa
Red Ink
(Tango)
Wall,
red ink in the gray
of yesterday...
Your emotion
of happy brick
on my alley
with a blot
painted the corner...
And the button
that in the width of the night
put the edge of the round
like a brooch...
And that carmine mailbox,
and that bar
where the Italian cried
his blonde distant love
that he wet with good wine.
Where will my suburb be?
Who stole my childhood?
In what corner, my moon,
do you pour like back then
your clear joy?
Sidewalks that I walked on,
thugs that are no longer,
under your satin sky
a piece of my heart
stays up all night.
Wall
red ink in the gray
of yesterday...
Gush
of my unhappy blood
that I spilled on the geranium
of that balcony
that hid her...
I don't know
if it was the black of my sorrows
or it was the red of your veins
my sangria...
Why did it come and go
after the carmine
and the gray
far bar,
where an Italian cried
his longings of good wine.
