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Muriéndome de amor is a Tango written by Carlos Bahr and composed by Manuel Sucher.
The lyrics of “Muriéndome de amor” portray a profound emotional journey tied to love’s intense and sometimes torturous nature. The speaker vividly describes the overpowering effect of a loved one’s kiss, which ignites a fiery passion difficult to control. This passion consumes the speaker, symbolized through fire and fever, indicating both ecstasy and agony. The repeated attempts to resist this attraction, yet invariably succumbing to it, reveal a cycle of desire and despair, capturing the classic tango theme of a tormented love.
The title “Muriéndome de amor,” which translates to “Dying of Love,” encapsulates the primary theme of passionate yet painful love. The imagery of fever, flames, and storms throughout the tango intensifies the feeling of being uncontrollably consumed by love. Phrases like “tu boca puede más que mi cordura” (your mouth overpowers my sanity) and “mi vida es una llama” (my life is a flame) illustrate love’s power to disrupt rationality and equanimity, depicting love as a physical and psychological fever that takes over the body and mind.
Written in 1956, a time when Tango was an integral part of Argentine culture, “Muriéndome de amor” reflects the traditional tango themes of passionate, often unrequited love and personal suffering. The vivid descriptions and emotional intensity resonate with the Argentine sensibility of that era, where tango was often a medium for expressing deep, sometimes dark, emotional states. This period in Argentina was also marked by political and social upheaval, and tangos like this one offered an outlet for common people to express their personal and collective anxieties.
Carlos Bahr was a noted Argentine tango lyricist, renowned for his ability to capture complex emotions and the nuances of romantic despair in his lyrics.