Last week my Spanish (for health professionals) professor made us watch Talk to Her (Hable con Ella), a Pedro Almodovar movie and the soundtrack is amazing. This is one of my favorite songs from the movie. It's called Cucurrucu Paloma and it's sung by Caetano Veloso. The words are very sad, but the way the song is sung is so moving. I can't stop listening to it.
And no, I'm not being emo. My roommate
Jennifer knows how I feel about emo kids. hahah. They make me want to gag myself.
Here are the words in Spanish and in English:
Dicen que por las noches
no mas se le iba en puro llorar,
dicen que no comía
no mas se le iba en puro tomar;
juran que el mismo cielo
se estremecía al oír su llanto
Cómo sufrió por ella,
que hasta en su muerte la fué llamando:
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, lloraba,
ay, ay, ay, ay, gemía,
ay, ay, ay, ay, cantaba
de pasión mortal moría.
Que una paloma triste
muy de mañana le va a cantar
a la casita sola
con sus puertitas de par en par;
juran que esa paloma
no es otra cosa mas que su alma,
que todavía la espera
a que regrese la desdichada.
Cucurrucucú, paloma,
cucurrucucú, no llores.
Las piedras jamás, paloma
qué van a saber de amores.
Cucurrucucú, cucurrucucú,
cucurrucucú, paloma no llores.
ENGLISH
They say that at nights
all he could do was cry all the time
they say he won´t eat
all he could do was drink at all times
they swear that heaven itself
would tremble hearing his crying
He suffered so much for her
that even on his death he was calling her
ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, he cried
ay, ay ay ay ay, he sobbed
ay ay ay ay ay he sang
from a deadly passion, he died
That a sad dove
early in the morning goes to sing
at the lonely little house
with it´s liitle doors wide open
They swear that that dove
is nothing else than his soul
still waiting for her return
Cucucrrucucu, dove
cucucrrucucu, don´t cry
stones will never, sparrow
know anything about love
cucurrucucu, cucurrucucu
cucurrucucu, dove don´t cry
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