In the Good and In the Bad

[manuel]

Tangueros,

I can't get enough of Moreno's singing with Rodriguez' orchestra.  I enjoy the suave crooning voice over the chomping music, and I know lots of Tangueras who respond to this music the right way.  Hung-yut calls it 'sleepy', I say it's 'hot'.

In this song, a guy is telling a girl "Yeah, so what?  We messed around, I knew you weren't serious, you just wanted my cash, and I just wanted an easy girl".  They play with fire, and in the end, they fall in love but are somehow not able to be together.  The title could translate as "Through thick and thin", but that doesn't match the at first tough, cool tone that turns ironic.

EN LA BUENA Y EN LA MALA                              In the Good, and In the Bad                

Orquesta de Enrique Rodríguez con el cantor Armando Moreno

En la buena te encontre                                    I met you when it was good,     
y en la mala te perdí                                         and lost you when it went bad. 
hoy tu amor luz de bengala                              Your love is just a cheap Chinese sparkler,
de sol y breve gala                                           bright and short lived.
mi cartera fue el iman que a tu ambición          My wallet was like a prince for which ambition 
le hizo hacer un simulacro de pasion              made you fake your passion. 
vampiresa de mis noches de champán           Vampiress of my champagne nights,
nunca te olvides de que,                                  don't you ever forget
en la buena te encontre                                   that I found you when it was hot
y en la mala te perdí                                         and dropped you when it was not 
y jamás un mal recuerdo                                  still, you will never have an ill 
tendras de mi.                                                  word to say of me. 

Cayo el telon                                                    The curtain fell, 
sobre tu simulación                                          on your false love. 
difunto ayer                                                      Those yesterdays of lies and pleasure      
de mentira y placer.                                         are dead.
Te di esplendor,                                               I treated you like a star, gave you all
mis billetes y mi amor                                       my money and my love-

fui sin querer                                                    but it was without desire,  
un juguete, mujer.                                             just a game, lady. 

Y porque fui pa'vos                                          Because I was good to you, though

un hombre bueno si                                        I shouldn't have been, today I can say        
hoy sin preocupación                                     without a second thought-  
puedo decir                                                     that I found you in the good, 
que en la buena te encontre                            and lost you in the bad? 
y en la mala te perdí                                        I guess, in the end,  
y al final me siento                                           I feel alone so far from you.
solo lejos de ti.                                                (it was love after all)

Manuel

[세류.]

한참 지랄지랄하더니 결국 결론은 네가 그립다라니, 뭔가 상당히 츤데레스러운 가사... -_-;

[manuel]

I changed the last verse because I was uncomfortable with my first translation. The meaning is basically unchanged-- the girl must be a 'goldbrick' or hooker who doesn't deserve the man's attention, but he falls for her.

[세류.]

Basically, they used each other. no? that's the tone I understood and according to which I translated. what is 'pa'vos'? it won't change the final translation much, but I'd like to know exactly.

[manuel]

literally, it is contraction of 'para' and 'vos', so 'for you'