Francisco Leon - el Cuerpo.mov

Francisco Leon performing Mientras el Cuerpo at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts in Ojai, California, with Lisa K. and Deb Edwards.

Music and Lyrics by
Francisco Leon and Federico Torres

English Translation:

While my body can take it
I will go on and on.
I'm not longer nineteen
But I don't give a damn.
I'll keep making the bar rounds
For days in a row
Without going to bed at all.

One of this Tuesdays at three am
I will come and pick you up for a little walk
Don't you dare giving me that dirty look
Otherwise I will punch your ugly face.
If were my real friend
You would put up with it.

I know, while my body can take it,
I will go on.
Even if I lost my delicate brain tissue
I'll live on, like a ruin,
rolling on the ground in a stupor.
Always trying to get higher,
I was made for all excesses
And even now, growing old
I haven't quite learned my lesson.

I wake up at 5pm Sunday --
Good friends of mine would wake me
With a tempting glass of wine and cheap pizza,
& Greasy bread, followed by more bad wine.
My trembling body is begging me
To put it out of its misery
Saying "no more pain please".

There is not a doctor or a medicine
that I didn't try.
My nickname is Mr. Cheap Alcohol
& every time I pass by
The mortuary the coroner will great me:
"Hey boy a got little something for you".

I know I will push the flag to the end,
Fight along with the last men.
I know the old times are gone,
When I was a Milonguero,
Everything was fair game.
I prayed to Mother Mary and the saints --
I promised to quit drinking, gambling and whoring
I swam my life's way inside a bottle of gin,
But I'll be better in death
Than a quitter.

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• Tango

[tobeornottobin]

What a lovely band. Klesmer, tango debauch. Loved seeing this.

[tobeornottobin]

What a Lovely Band!