A Specter in the Shadows

We’re wandering the rainforests of northeastern Argentina this weekend, dear reader, birdwatching with our family’s chief ornithologist (11yrs old). We’ll return with some clips and photos from the trip next week...

In the meantime, we featured a quote from a legendary tango in last weekend’s Note and a few of you wrote in with comments about the Spanish language, translations and the power of words in general.

Given this weekend’s getaway, we thought it appropriate to include the full video (above) of that particular song and an English translation of the lyrics, for your enjoyment, below. Please enjoy something a little different this weekend…

Drizzle
lyrics by Enrique Cadícamo

What a night–filled with chills and fatigue!
The wind carries a strange lament,
the night is like a deep well of shadows,
and among the shadows I walk, so slowly…
while all the while the drizzle
underlines it all
putting its spines
through my heart…

On this night, so cold and so mine
I amaze myself, always dwelling on the same thing…
and although I want to tear her out,
throw her out,
and forget her,
I just remember her more.

Drizzle!
Sad and alone, down the sidewalk
goes my heart, stricken
with the sadness of a condemned building,
feeling your frostiness
because that girl, when she forgot me,
tore open a hole where the rain gets in.
Lost!
Like a specter in the shadows
that searches for her still and calls out her name…
drizzle…sadness…
even the sky has started to cry!

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