Ah, so you think I’m going to talk about the dance called Tango; but no, this time I’m going to talk about an album called “Tango”, by those two towering figures of Argentine rock, namely Charly García and Pedro Aznar.
Now, you’re reading this and you’re probably asking yourself, why? As Simon Sinek once said, start with why: why, why, why does this guy always talk to us without talking to us. Why, why, why.
Well, I’ll tell you why. Because I am talking to you. More precisely, I’m talking to your heart, which is exactly the title of a song by our national hero Charly García, released in “Tango” on March 29th, 1986, that is, a bit over 40 years ago, and I’ll leave it up to you to Google Translate the lyrics, which are sublime.
Oh yeah, it does sound 1980s, huh? Those synths. THOSE SYNTHESIZERS.
Charly, being the superstar he still is (regardless of his substance abuse) has had his own MTV Unplugged album in the 1990s, because it was such a tradition, and within that Unplugged album there’s another song I deeply love, (originally released together in the same album “Tango”), and that other incredible song is called “Pasajera en Trance”, and here it goes again because reasons. It speaks of distance, flow, travel, and so many other things.
“She dances on the sea”, says Charly.
OK, here go the lyrics, because they are out-of-this-world. Enjoy.
She’s about to board,
maybe she’ll snag a seat on the deck.
She’s about to take off,
she’s leaving.
She travels without paying,
the old trick of walking in the shadows.
She dances on the sea,
she’s leaving.
Passenger in a trance,
passenger in perpetual transit.
Passenger in a trance,
passing through the right places.
True love,
is like sleeping and being awake.
True love,
is like living in an airport.
As Charly says at the end, “merci beaucoup”.