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Para qué vivir así

Music by Luciano Leocata, lyrics by Reinaldo Yiso. 3 recordings in our catalogue, 1951–1953.
1951: 2 · danced 0 times1953: 1 · danced 3 times
19511953
records madedanced on film, by the record’s year· our catalogue

1951: 2, 0; 1953: 1, 3

Para qué vivir así is a tango.

Para qué vivir así was composed by Luciano Leocata.

The lyrics of Para qué vivir así are by Reinaldo Yiso.

every sentence cites a published fact

Credit

Music
Luciano Leocata
Lyrics
Reinaldo Yiso

Source: TangoCloud catalogue

Every recording

3 recordings · our catalogue, dances filmed on TangoTube · 2 more we know of

1950

Choose A and B on two recordings to hear them one after the other.

  1. Ricardo PedevillaLuis Omar Zunino · Pampa · Dec 5
    Not danced on film yet
    1951
  2. Alfredo GobbiMost dancedJorge Maciel · Jun 9
    3 dances
    1953
  3. Florindo SassoneEarliest we holdRodolfo Galé · RCA Victor · Nov 21
    Not danced on film yet
    1951
  4. José BassoNot in our catalogueOscar Ferrari · Dec 111952
  5. Alfredo J. GobbiNot in our catalogueJorge Maciel · Jun 91953

Lyrics

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Las cadenas que te ataban a mi lado hoy las rompe mi conciencia al comprender que mis besos, mis caricias, te han cansado y he perdido para siempre tu querer. Aunque niegues diciendo: “Soy la misma”, yo comprendo que todo terminó. La verdad tan sólo quiero que me digas, aunque muera de dolor mi corazón. Será mejor para los dos separarnos de una vez. ¿Para qué vivir asi... Para qué? Vos soportando mis caricias y mis besos, yo comprendiendo que no es mío tu querer. ¿Por qué engañarnos y sufrir de este modo tan brutal? Yo no quiero soportar tu piedad. Aunque se rompa el corazón en mil pedazos gritame fuerte: ¡No te quiero más! No es culpable el corazón, si cualquier día, ha dejado de sentir una pasión. Es misterio incomprensible de la vida despreciar lo que se amó de corazón. Será tuyo mi amor hasta la muerte, tu cariño en cambio ya murió. Estas cosas son caprichos de la suerte, de la vida, del destino o qué se yo.

English · machine translation

The chains that bound you to my side today my conscience breaks them when I realize that my kisses, my caresses, have tired you out and I have lost your love forever. Although you deny saying: "I am the same", I understand that everything is over. The truth I only want you to tell me, even if my heart dies of pain. It will be better for both of us to separate once and for all. Why live like this... What's the use? You putting up with my caresses and my kisses, me realizing that your love is not mine. Why deceive us and suffer in this brutal way? I don't want to bear your pity. Even if my heart breaks into a thousand pieces shout loudly to me: I love you no more! The heart is not guilty, if any day, it has ceased to feel a passion. It is an incomprehensible mystery of life to despise what was loved from the heart. My love will be yours until death, your affection on the other hand has already died. These things are whims of fate, of life, of destiny or what do I know.

Danced to it

Music from 1951–1953 · danced on film 2022–2023

20222023
By the year it was danced; each dance counts once, however many channels filmed it

2022: 1, 2023: 1

What we don't know yet3 of 4 known

The year it was written.

Data: recordings, facts and sources

In other catalogues2

TodoTango · tema/3218

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tango.info · T0370283003

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Is a1

Is a Tango

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Composer1

Composed by Luciano Leocata

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Lyricist1

Lyrics by Reinaldo Yiso

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Listen

  1. Para qué vivir asíFlorindo Sassone · Rodolfo Galé · no clip yet1951
  2. Para qué vivir asíRicardo Pedevilla · Luis Omar Zunino · no clip yet1951
  3. Para qué vivir asíAlfredo Gobbi · Jorge Maciel1953

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