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Como los nardos en flor

Singer: Francisco LOMUTOComposer: Teófilo Lespés y Mario LespésAuthor: Eduardo Viera

More by Francisco LOMUTO

Lyrics
¡Tango! Mágica armonía
de pasional sentimiento,
que estuviste largo tiempo
como delito escondido;
surgiste predominante
del arrabal altanero
y como mago hechicero
todo el mundo has invadido.
La tristeza voluptuosa
de que te hallas saturado,
parece haber delirado
en la ausencia o el dolor,
y al compás de los acordes
que engarzan los bandoneones
se elevan los corazones
como los nardos en flor.

Vibra el alma como lira
de hondo sentimiento,
al místico sensualismo
de tu humana inspiración,
y sigue el pecho inflamado
por la suplicante queja...
mientras, muda, la pareja
baila un tango dormilón...
English translation
Tango! Magical harmony
of passionate feeling,
that you were long
as a hidden crime;
you emerged predominant
from the haughty suburb
and like a sorcerer magician
you have invaded the whole world.
The voluptuous sadness
with which you have saturated yourself
seems to have raved
in absence or pain,
and to the compass of the chords
that the bandoneon strings
the hearts rise up
like the nards in bloom.

The soul vibrates like a lyre
of deep feeling,
to the mystical sensualism
of your human inspiration,
and follows the inflamed chest
by the pleading complaint...
while, mute, the couple
dances a sleepy tango...

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