De no olvidar

(Crossed milonga)

And your memory, remained,
is telling me, is telling me,
that there is no forgetting.

Brief is my song, that doesn't forget you,
skin and heartbeat, skin and heartbeat,
ignited shadow.

I feel in the soul like daggers,
embedded edges, embedded edges,
in springs.

I no longer wait for you, I don't explain anything,
dead wood, dead wood,
I crucify you.

Why have you come? Go back to the past,
leave me alone, leave me alone,
Who called you?

I feel in the soul like daggers,
embedded edges, embedded edges,
in springs.

* Alfredo Zitarrosa, in a first unpublished version, does not sing this stanza.
** In the same version, after this stanza, he sings:
My hands pretend they have touched you,
skin and ashes, skin and ashes,
extinguished fire.