La Noche de Mi Mal
José Alfredo Jiménez
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 serenely,
Under a sky bluer than blue.
Then, you see,
I held on as much as I could
And ended up crying rivers
Where you wouldn't see me.
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 serenely,
Under a sky bluer than blue.
Then, you see,
I held on as much as I could
And ended up crying rivers
Where you wouldn't see me.
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.
