Текст и перевод песни Alci Acosta - La Cama Vacía

La Cama Vacía

Desde un tétrico hospital
Donde se hallaba internado
Casi agónico rodeado
De un silencio sepulcral
Con su ternura habitual
La que siempre demostró
Quizá con esfuerzo o no
Desde su lecho sombrío
Un enfermo amigo mío
Esta carta me escribió.

Querido amigo quisiera
Que al recibir la presente
Te halles bien y que la suerte
Te acompañe por doquiera
De mi parte y mal pudiera
Decirte que estoy mejor
Al contarte mi dolor
Postrado en mi lecho yerto
Ya soy un pobre esqueleto
Que a mi mismo me da horror.

La carta es para decirte
Que si podés algún día
Vení a hacerme compañía
Vos que tanto me quisiste
Es estoy tan solo y tan triste
Que lloro sin contenerme
Ya nadie suele quererme
Todos se muestran impíos
De tantos amigos míos
Ninguno ha venido a verme.

Hoy yo te doy la razón
Pues veo en mi soledad
Que esa llamada amistad
Es tan solo una ilusión
Cuando uno está en condición
Tiene amigos a granel
Pero si el destino cruel
Y hacia un abismo nos tira
Vemos que todo es mentira
Y que no hay amigo fiel

Bueno aquí ya me despido
Y al poner punto final
Recibe un abrazo leal
Del que siempre te ha querido
A tu mamá que no olvido
También mis recuerdos dale
Mucha devoción mostrale
Y de caricias colmala
Vos que la tenés cuidala
Si supieras cuento vale.

Llegó el domingo y ansioso
Por aquel amigo leal
Penetré en el hospital
Angustiado y pesaroso
Me dirigí silencioso
Al lugar donde sabía
Que en su lecho encontraría
Mas ahí ni bien lo encontré
Y asombrado me quedé
Al ver su cama vacía.

The Empty Bed

From a grim hospital
Where he lay in pain
Almost at his end, surrounded
By a deathly silence
With his usual tenderness
Which he always showed
Perhaps with effort or not
From his gloomy bed
A sick friend of mine
Wrote me this letter.

Dear friend, I would like
That when you receive this
You are well and that luck
Accompanies you everywhere
On my part, I could not
Tell you that I am better
As I tell you my pain
Bedridden in my cold bed
I am already a poor skeleton
That even I find horrifying.

The letter is to tell you
That if you can, someday
Come and keep me company
You who loved me so much
I am so lonely and so sad
That I cry without stopping
No one seems to want me anymore
Everyone is indifferent
Of all my friends
None have come to see me.

Today I give you the reason
As I see in my solitude
That so-called friendship
Is just an illusion
When one is in good condition
One has friends galore
But if cruel fate
And throws us into an abyss
We see that it is all a lie
And that there is no true friend

Well, here I say goodbye
And as I put a full stop
Receive a loyal embrace
From the one who has always loved you
To your mother, whom I do not forget
Also give her my regards
Show her much devotion
And overwhelm her with caresses
You who have her, take care of her
If you only knew how much she is worth.

Sunday came and eager
For that loyal friend
I entered the hospital
Anxious and sorrowful
I went silently
To the place where I knew
That I would find him in his bed
But there, as soon as I found him
And was amazed
To see his bed empty.