“ “Return with with my whitened hair” ”
In 1961 during my first year in Medical School I fell in love with Carlos Gardel’s tango VOLVER (return). The melody and the lyrics (see pinned post) have never left my heart. Often you could catch me in the shower singing as loud as I can and hopefully in tune 🎵 this beautiful tango ( YouTube ...
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Photo Location: Rock Harbor Grill Orleans Massachusetts
  • Carlos Neu Edited 10 months ago

    Here is my poem inspired by the lyrics of Volver: line from a song
    Sentir que es un soplo la vida

    In that corner of my soul a gentle breeze caresses… more

    Here is my poem inspired by the lyrics of Volver: line from a song
    Sentir que es un soplo la vida

    In that corner of my soul a gentle breeze caresses
    With a puff whispering about what our love shares.
    Serenaded by an eternal tango the balmy night hugs you and me
    While in the cadence of this song stops time indefinitely.
    .
    To feel that life is like a breath so gentle and brief
    Like a tango that returns and then gets lost in a Spring fog.
    Accompanied by a weeping accordion filling the air with sounds
    Filling our beating hearts with each note as we dance into the night.  

    Memories and songs visit us from the past
    With reminiscing eyes of passion and dreams,
    The full moon, that loyal witness of lost loves and your absences
    Whispers in your ears about that love and my eventual return (Volver..) 

    The breath of life is like a kiss into the wind
    Gently caressing your tender skin but vanishing in a moment.
    Gardel in each tango, his voice like an eternal love song
    Where his words in dark corners reverberate and enchant.

    And so we live briefly between flat notes and sharp chords
    Us, you and me, dancing away our lives in harmonious accord. 
    What a short breath our life reflects, brief yet deep,
    Like the Tango that fills the universal hearts.

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  • Carlos Neu Edited 10 months ago

    Lyrics in English:  volver

    I can almost see the flicker
    Of the lights that in the distance … more

    Lyrics in English:  volver

    I can almost see the flicker
    Of the lights that in the distance
    Mark the way of my returning…
    https://lyricstranslate.com/en/volver-volver.html-0

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  • Carlos Neu Edited 10 months ago

    The lyrics in Spanish:  Yo adivino el parpadeo de las luces que a lo lejos
    Van marcando mi retorno… more

    The lyrics in Spanish:  Yo adivino el parpadeo de las luces que a lo lejos
    Van marcando mi retorno
    Son las mismas que alumbraron con sus pálidos reflejos
    Hondas horas de dolor
    Y aunque no quise el regreso
    Siempre se vuelve al primer amor
    La vieja calle donde le cobijo
    Tuya es su vida, tuyo es su querer
    Bajo el burlón mirar de las estrellas
    Que con indiferencia
    Hoy me ven volver
    Volver
    Con la frente marchita
    Las nieves del tiempo platearon mi sien
    Sentir
    Que es un soplo la vida
    Que veinte años no es nada
    Que febril la mirada
    Errante en las sombras, te busca y te nombra
    Vivir
    Con el alma aferrada
    A un dulce recuerdo que lloro otra vez
    Tengo miedo del encuentro con el pasado que vuelve
    A enfrentarse con mi vida
    Tengo miedo de las noches que pobladas de recuerdos
    Encadenen mi soñar
    Pero el viajero que huye
    Tarde o temprano detiene su andar
    Y aunque el olvido que todo destruye
    Haya matado mi vieja ilusión
    Guardo escondida una esperanza humilde
    Que es toda la fortuna de mi corazón
    Volver
    Con la frente marchita
    Las nieves del tiempo platearon mi sien
    Sentir
    Que es un soplo la vida
    Que veinte años no es nada
    Que febril la mirada
    Errante en las sombras, te busca y te nombra
    Vivir
    Con el alma aferrada
    A un dulce recuerdo que lloro otra vez

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  • jjenncee Edited 9 months ago

    A super shot Carlos

    A super shot Carlos

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