“In the loving calm of your arms”

Monday, 11 April 2022

It focuses our attention on our partner rather than the surrounding crowd and allows us to experience the urgency of communicating emotions—our own, those expressed by the music—through movement and directly through immediate physical contact. It is this directedness that I have always found so compelling about tango, the need to focus on someone else, the need to channel the music through ourselves and our partner. This act of sharing, this emphasis on the integrity of the couple is one of the most compelling aspects of the dance. For, in forcing us to turn our attention to someone other than ourselves—our skill, our technique, our ability—we come a little closer to minimizing our isolation, our sense of being a disconnected, autonomous entity whose struggle is our own.

Decime Qué Pasó 

Siento rabia,
porque ha llegado el hastío,
se fue metiendo en nuestro nido
y en un descuido nos venció.

Siento rabia
por la impotencia en que vivo;
este cariño muere
por algo que lo hiere
y no le encuentro salvación.

Decime qué pasó entre nosotros,
la vida no es la misma entre los dos.
Tuvimos por sonseras un enojo,
¿qué pasa que agoniza nuestro amor?

Decime qué pasó entre nosotros,
la frase está en los labios de los dos.
Tal vez se esté arrullando en la nostalgia el corazón,
por cosas de un ayer mejor.Siento rabia,
porque ha llegado el hastío,
se fue metiendo en nuestro nido
y en un descuido nos venció.Siento rabia
por la impotencia en que vivo;
este cariño muere
por algo que lo hiere
y no le encuentro salvación.Decime qué pasó entre nosotros,
la vida no es la misma entre los dos.
Tuvimos por sonseras un enojo,
¿qué pasa que agoniza nuestro amor?Decime qué pasó entre nosotros,
la frase está en los labios de los dos.
Tal vez se esté arrullando en la nostalgia el corazón,
por cosas de un ayer mejor.

I feel rage
because boredom has arrived,
it found its way into our nest.
We were careless and it defeated us.

I feel rage
for the helplessness I live in;
this love dies
hurt by something
and I can’t find a way to save it.

Tell me what happened between us,
life is not the same for the two of us.
We were so stupid being upset,
what happens to our love that is fading away?

Tell me what happened between us
the phrase is in our lips.
Perhaps the heart is lulled to sleep in nostalgia,
by things of a better past.

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