19 Dias Y 500 Noches Lyrics in English Joaquín Sabina

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song 19 Dias Y 500 Noches by Joaquín Sabina from Spanish to English.

Ours lasted

What two ice fish last

In a whiskey on the rocks

Instead of pretending

Or smashing a glass of jealousy on myself

She started laughing

Suddenly I saw myself

Like nobody's dog barking

At the doors of heaven

She left me a toiletry bag of grievances

The honey on the lips

And frost in the hair

They were right

My lovers

In that thing that before, the bad one was me

With one exception

This time

I wanted to love her, love her

And she didn't

So she left

She left my heart skin and bones

And me on my knees

From the taxi

And, going overboard

She threw me two kisses

One per cheek

And I went back

To the curse of the drawer without her clothes

To the perdition of the cocktail bars

To the bargain-bin and streetcorner Cinderellas

And, through those taverns of Fino Laina

Paying the bills of soulless people

That lose their calm with cocaine

Driving me crazy

Squandering the purse and life

I went on, little by little

Giving her up for lost

And even though I

So as not to overwhelm Maria with flowers

So as not to besiege her with my anthology

Of cold sheets and empty bedrooms

So as not to buy her with costume jewelry

Nor be the puppet that goes on pilgrimage

With the brotherhood of the Holy Reproach

I loved her so much

That I took long to learn to forget her

Nineteen days

And five hundred nights

She said hello and goodbye

And, the slam sounded like a sign

Of interrogation

I suspect that, like that

She took revenge through forgetting

Cupid of me

No, I don't ask forgiveness

For what? if she is going to forgive me

Because she doesn't care anymore

She always had her brow very high

Her tongue very long

And her skirt very short

She abandoned me

Like old shoes are abandoned

She smashed the lenses of my distance glasses

She pulled her living portrait out of the mirror

And I was such a bullfighter through the alleyways

Of gambling and wine

That yesterday the doorman threw me out of the casino

Of Torrelodones

What a great sorrow

I would deny the Holy Sacrament

In the very moment

That she orders it to me

And even though I

So as not to overwhelm Maria with flowers

So as not to besiege her with my anthology

Of cold sheets and empty bedrooms

So as not to buy her with costume jewelry

Nor be the puppet that goes on pilgrimage

With the brotherhood of the Holy Reproach

I loved her so much

That I took long to learn to forget her

Nineteen days

And five hundred nights

And I went back

To the perdition of the cocktail bars

To the bargain-bin and streetcorner Cinderellas

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Benjamin Prado Rodriguez, Joaquin Martinez Sabina

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19 Días y 500 Noches is Joaquín Sabina’s witty chronicle of a break-up so brief it lasts "lo que duran dos peces de hielo en un güisqui on the rocks". One second the lovers are clinking glasses, the next she is waving from a taxi while he stays behind with nothing but a vanity bag full of grievances, honey still on his lips and frost in his hair. For once, the self-confessed "malo" had truly wanted to love, yet she didn’t, and that gap sends him crashing from heaven’s gate to the gutter.

The song then paints a Technicolor hangover: smoky bars, budget Cinderellas, cocaine-fuelled debts, and all-night laments where he squanders both wallet and soul. Determined not to overwhelm her with flowers or clichés, he chooses instead a marathon of excess, convincing himself that forgetting her took only nineteen days and five hundred endless nights. The result is a cocktail of humor, bitterness, and street-wise poetry that turns heartbreak into an anthem you can shout along to while learning some of Spain’s sharpest wordplay.

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