Mariachi Lyrics Archive
Wasted Days And Wasted Nights
He finally stopped giving his days and nights to someone who never deserved them. Wasted Days honors Freddy Fender's most dignified goodbye.
About the Song
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights is a classic by Freddy Fender (Baldemar Huerta), the legendary Tex-Mex musician from San Benito, Texas, originally released in 1975. Fender was a defining figure of the Chicano musical experience, bridging rockabilly, country, and Mexican folk traditions. Los de Morelia's recording honors this border music heritage, where English-language rock and country absorbed Mexican rhythms to create something genuinely new. Fender's original explored the Tex-Mex experience of living between two cultures; this version continues that conversation.
Meaning of the Song
Wasted Days and Wasted Nights is the sound of someone who finally stopped. Stopped calling, stopped hoping, stopped giving days and nights to someone who was never going to deserve them. Freddy Fender wrote it from the border, from that particular place where two worlds meet and not everything translates. Los de Morelia carries that border feeling forward — the weariness, the dignity of walking away, the sad clarity that some loves are built on waste.
Lyrics / Letra
Wasted days and wasted nights
I have left for you behind
For you don't belong to me
Your heart belongs to someone else
Why should I keep loving you
When I know that you're not true?
And why should I call your name
When you're to blame
For making me blue?
Don't you remember the day
That you went away and left me?
I was so lonely
Prayed for you only
My love
Why should I keep loving you
When I know that you're not true?
And why should I call your name
When you're to blame
For making me blue?
Don't you remember the day
That you went away and left me?
I was so lonely
I Prayed for you only
My love
Why should I keep loving you
When I know that you're not true?
And why should I call your name
When you're to blame
For making me blue?
I have left for you behind
For you don't belong to me
Your heart belongs to someone else
Why should I keep loving you
When I know that you're not true?
And why should I call your name
When you're to blame
For making me blue?
Don't you remember the day
That you went away and left me?
I was so lonely
Prayed for you only
My love
Why should I keep loving you
When I know that you're not true?
And why should I call your name
When you're to blame
For making me blue?
Don't you remember the day
That you went away and left me?
I was so lonely
I Prayed for you only
My love
Why should I keep loving you
When I know that you're not true?
And why should I call your name
When you're to blame
For making me blue?
English Translation
Wasted days and wasted nights
I have left for you behind
for you don't belong to me
your heart belongs to someone else
Why should I keep loving you
when I know that you're not true
and why should I call your name
when you're to blame
for making me blue
Wasted days and wasted nights
I have left for you behind
I have left for you behind
for you don't belong to me
your heart belongs to someone else
Why should I keep loving you
when I know that you're not true
and why should I call your name
when you're to blame
for making me blue
Wasted days and wasted nights
I have left for you behind
