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Your memory and I

Here am I, in the corner of a tavern,
listening to a song of my request,
they are serving me now my tequila,
and my thoughts are already going to you.
 
I know that my misfortune is your memory,
and yet here I come to think of you,
how bitter are the things that always happen
when there is a woman repaying with hurt.
 
Who doesn't know, in this life,
the betrayal, so well known,
that a foul love leaves on us?
Who doesn't come to the tavern
demanding his tequila
and requesting his love song?
 
Already they are serving me the last one,
by now I don't know if I have faith;
right now, I am only asking them
to play, once again, 'The one who walked away'.
 
Who doesn't know, in this life,
the so well known betrayal,
that a foul love leaves on us;
who doesn't come to the tavern
demanding his tequila
and requesting his love song.
 
Already they are serving me the last one,
by now I don't know if I have faith;
right now, I am only asking them
to play, once again, 'The one who walked away'.
 
Original lyrics

Tu Recuerdo Y Yo

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evfokasevfokas    Sun, 01/03/2015 - 16:20

Thank you Rosa, some suggestions
paga > repay (is more standard in this context, same number of syllables: when there's a woman repaying with hurt)
the betrayal, so well known > the so well known betrayal (sounds better)
mal amor > foul love (sounds better)
La que se fue > She walked away (differs but the gender becomes obvious)

roster 31roster 31
   Sun, 01/03/2015 - 21:18

Gracias Evan. Much better.
I have a question:
"paying with hurt". Can you use "hurt" as a noun?

Notice that "the so well known betrayal" is used further down. I switch words around here to rhyme "known" with "song". Excusable?

(I'll check now your lyrics).

evfokasevfokas    Sun, 01/03/2015 - 21:57

De nada Rosa, the nice thing about english is that you can say almost everything you want, most of the verbs are also nouns (and vice versa of course) and even if they're not you can make them yourself. Hurt is an actual noun though