No Volveré
José Alfredo Jiménez
I Won't Return
When I find myself far from you
When you want me to be with you
You won't find a memory of me
Nor will you have more loves with me
I swear I won't return
Even if life shatters me
If once I loved you madly
You will be bid farewell from my soul
I won't return
I swear to you by the God who watches me
I tell you crying with rage
I won't return
I won't stop
Until I see that my tears have formed
A stream of flooded forgetfulness
Where I will drown your memory
We were clouds that the wind separated
We were stones that always clashed
Drops of water that the sun dried up
Drinking bouts that we never finished
I'm leaving on the train of absence
My ticket has no return
What I have of me, I give to you
But I return your kisses
I won't return
I swear to you by the God who watches me
I tell you crying with rage
I won't return
I won't stop
Until I see that my tears have formed
A stream of flooded forgetfulness
Where I will drown your memory
I'm leaving on the train of absence
My ticket has no return