La noche de mi mal
Chavela Vargas
The Night of My Misfortune
I don't even want to hear your name again,
I don't even want to know where you're going.
That's what you told me that night,
that dark night of my misfortune.
If I had told you 'Don't go',
how sad my future would have been.
If I had told you 'Don't leave me',
my own heart would have laughed.
That's why you saw me so calm,
walking calmly under a sky bluer than blue;
then, you see, I held on as long as I could,
ended up crying a river where you wouldn't see me.