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Singer: Héctor VARELASinger 2: Argentino LedesmaComposer: Alfredo GobbiAuthor: Julio Camilloni

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Lyrics
Mis manos nacieron ciegas
y acunan sus locos sueños.
No saben que no se puede
tocar con ellas el cielo.
Por eso golpearon puertas
que a mis golpes no se abrieron.
Ella ya estaba lejana
y yo fui un mendigo ciego.

Mis manos fueron dos llamas
y solas se consumieron
porque ella fue indiferente
como una estatua de hielo.
Por eso las tengo ahora
como si fueran de yeso,
dos manos desesperadas,
aferradas a un recuerdo.

¡Ay, cómo se equivocaron
las ciegas manos que tengo!
Mis manos puse en las manos
de un amigo y tuve miedo.
No fueron manos leales,
se cumplió el presentimiento.
La vez que se hicieron puño
fueron dos puños de acero
y me golpearon el rostro
por no golpear rostro ajeno.

¡Ay, cómo se equivocaron
las ciegas manos que tengo!
Soldado del infortunio
llevo un brazalete negro.
¡Se llevaron a mi madre
y ellas no la detuvieron!
Fue el error más lamentable
que mis manos cometieron...
Ayudaron a llevarla...
¡Nunca sabrán lo que han hecho!

¡Ay, cómo se equivocaron
las ciegas manos que tengo!
English translation
My hands were born blind
and cradle their crazy dreams.
They don't know that you can't
touch the sky with them.
That's why they knocked on doors
that didn't open to my knocks.
She was already far away
and I was a blind beggar.

My hands were two flames
and alone they were consumed
because she was indifferent
like a statue of ice.
That's why I have them now
as if they were made of plaster,
two desperate hands,
clinging to a memory.

Oh, how the blind hands I have
the blind hands I have!
I put my hands in the hands
of a friend and I was afraid.
They were not loyal hands,
the presentiment was fulfilled.
The time they became a fist
they were two fists of steel
and they hit my face
for not hitting someone else's face.

Oh, how the blind hands I have
the blind hands I have!
Soldier of misfortune
I wear a black armband.
They took my mother
and they didn't stop her!
It was the most regrettable mistake
my hands ever made...
They helped to take her...
They will never know what they have done!

Oh, how the blind hands I have
the blind hands I have!

The Cabeceo