Javier Calamaro — Madrugada song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Madrugada" by Javier Calamaro.

Lyrics

Estoy sentado a mi mesa
Oyendo un tango que nadie escucha.
Casi las cinco de la matina
Y hay un recuerdo que me hace burla.
En la ginebra aburrida
Voy evocando mi vida.
Y detrás del ventanal,
El desfile matinal
De los que ganan su pan.
La noche ya larga el mazo
Y talla la madrugada,
Con un sol medio dormido
Que alumbra el tranco aburrido
Del botón de la parada
Y un punto trasnochador
De silbo y taco al compás
Se va de atorro al comboy.
En mil estaños nocheros
Y en escolazos de madrugadas
Palme una vida, casi vacía,
Y hoy que hago cuentas no tengo nada.
En la ginebra aburrida
Sigo evocando mi vida
Y la bronca de saber
Que los años que se van
Ya nunca podrán volver.
La noche ya larga el mazo
Y talla la madrugada,
Con un sol medio dormido
Que alumbra el tranco aburrido
Del botón de la parada
Y un punto trasnochador
De silbo y taco al compás
Se va de atorro al comboy.

Lyrics translation

I'm sitting at my table
Listening to a tango that no one listens to.
Almost five in the morning
And there's a memory that makes a mockery of me.
In the boring gin
I'm evoking my life.
And behind the window,
The morning parade
Of those who earn their bread.
The night is already long the mallet
And carving at dawn,
With a Sun half asleep
That lights up the boring trance
Stop button
And a flash point
From whistle and cue to Compass
He's going from Jam to comboy.
In a thousand nightly tin
And in the early hours
Palm a life, almost empty,
And today I do accounts I have nothing.
In the boring gin
I keep evoking my life
And the brawl of knowing
That the years that go
They can never come back.
The night is already long the mallet
And carving at dawn,
With a Sun half asleep
That lights up the boring trance
Stop button
And a flash point
From whistle and cue to Compass
He's going from Jam to comboy.