Malevaje
Tango 1929
Music: Juan de Dios Filiberto
Lyrics: Enrique Santos Discépolo
I said, for God's sake, what have you given me?
I'm so changed,
I don't know who I am anymore?
The strange evil one,
looks at me without understanding...
He sees me losing the sign
of handsome that yesterday
shone in the action...
Can't you see that I'm impoverished,
defeated and maniated
in your heart?
I saw you go by tantrumming haughtily
with such a deep and sensual beat
that it was nothing more than seeing you and losing
faith, courage,
the eagerness to guapear.
You haven't left me even the fag in my ear
of that evil and ferocious past...
I don't need anything else to complete
more than going to mass and kneeling down to pray!
Yesterday, afraid to kill,
instead of fighting
I started to run...
I saw myself in the shadow or finao;
I thought of not seeing you and I trembled...
If I, -who never slackened-, -who never slackened-
at night in anguish
I shut myself up to weep!...
Say, for God's sake, what have you given me?
I'm so changed,
I no longer know who I am?