Good afternoon my dears! Today I'm inspired.
So, grab a couple of beers and be ready for an awesome blogpost.
Probably a "caipirinha" would be a better choice to get you in the mood. But choose your poison, choose wisely, and enjoy.
I am an old soul. And I like Bossa Nova. So I'll be here introducing you one of the best albums so far, one of my beloved ones, and will try to go through this with you, song by song.
They are famous worlwide, probably you have heard at least one of his song in your life.
Now, let's go through the songs. I will put on spoiler because it's 30 songs, and probably most of you won't have the patience to go through it all. (SKIP SONG #7) But if you do, I will definetly love it.
1) Canto de Ossanha - Ossanha's Chant
Ossanha is an spiritual entity, one of the Orixás worshipped in african and afro/Brazilian religions such as Candomblé and Umbanda. Ossanha is the Orixá responsible for the ritual and medicinal leaves and plants. The music tells about a very common use in Brazil, the witchcraft for love. Orixá, also spelled “Orisha” is a kind of spiritual entity in the afro-brazilian religions such as Candomblé. Both “Xangô” and “Ossanha”, refered in the song are names of some orixás.
The man who says “I give” / Don’t give / ‘cause those who really give / Don’t tell
The man who says “I go” / Don’t go / ‘cause when he went / He didn’t really wanted to
The man who says “I am” / Is not / ‘cause those who really are says "I’m not"
The man who says I’m there / Is not / ‘cause nobody’s there / When they want
Pitiful is the man who falls / At the Ossanha’s chant / Traitor!
Pitiful is the man who looks for / Witchcraft of love
.....
‘cause I’m nobody of going / Into talkin’ about forget / The sadness of a love / which’s gone / No!
I’m just going if it’s to watch / A star rising / In the morning of a new love
.....
Xangô told me to tell you / If it is Ossanha’s chant /Don’t go!
‘cause you’re going to regret very much
Ask your Orixá / Love’s only good when it hurts...
2) Pout-Porri: Berimbau / Consolação - Berimbau it is an instrument played at Capoeira. / Consolation
Good men don't cheat the love who only wants you good.
Who says much that goes, will not
And just as it does not go, it does not come
Whoever from within does not leave
You will die without loving anyone.
The money of those who do not give
It is the work of those who do not have
...
If there was no love
If I did not have this pain
And if I had not suffered it
And if I did not have to cry
It was better if everything was over
I loved, I loved too much
What I suffered because of love
Nobody suffered
I cried, I lost peace
But what I know
It's just that no one has ever had more
More than me
3) Samba da Rosa - Samba of Rose (flower/woman)
Rose to see
To admire
Rose to grow
Rose to sprout
Rose to live
Rose to love
Rose to pick
And pluck the petals
Rose to sleep
Rose to wake up
Rose to smile
Rose to cry
Rose to leave
Rose to stay
And to have another "woman Rose"
It's spring
It's the rose-bud
Oh, how I wish
A Rose in my heart
4) Sei Lá - I don't know
There are days that I am
Thinking about life
And sincerely
I see no way out
How is it, for example?
That you can understand
We are barely born
And we already begin to die
Upon arrival
There is always leaving
Because there is nothing
Without separation
I don't know,
Life is a great illusion
I just know that life is right.
No one ever knows
What is wrong
Just Pretending
Pretending to forget
That nothing reborn
Before it's over
And the rising sun
It has to be nightfall.
There is no use
Staying outside
The time of the "yes"
It is an oversight of "no"
I don't know, don't know
I only know that it takes passion
Life is always right
5) Tomara
I hope that you come back quickly.
I hope that you do not say goodbye
Never again of my affection
And cry, repent
And think hard
That is better if we suffer together
Than to live happily alone
I hope the sadness convince you
That yearning doesn't pay
And that absence does not give peace
And the true love from the one who loves you
Weaves the same old plot
That doesn't undo
And the most divine thing in the world
It is to live every second
Like never again
6) Testamento - Testament
You that only work to save money
What's the matter, tell me, what's the matter?
You'll see one day.
You'll be in for a trouble.
Above the ground
Underneath the darkness
It's tough, my brother.
Well, my friend, as we used to say, the hole is more below ... (free translation to "it's not that simple")
And you with all your chest, in your coffin, you will be there in the most complete solitude, thinking a lot about not using it what you earned, only your funeral suit. What the hell, huh?
You do not stop to think
That time is short and does not stop
You will see one day, what a remorse!
How good it is to stop
Watch a sun set
Or watch a sunrise
And turn off
But you, with all that hope ... stockings, public titles, working capital, public relations (and tie!), Protocols, commendations, caviar, champagne (and tie!), Love without passion, body without soul, thinking without spirit
(and more tie!) and then, one fine day, heart attack; or worse, the psychiatrist
You who only enjoy life
And have a woman to use or to show up
You'll see one day.
What you are getting into!
The woman was made
For love and forgiveness
Come on, do not fall for it.
You, for example, are there with a doll on your side, beautiful and stilish, thinking you are the master and master of the material. Yes, friend, but she walks away, lost in a lyrical and confused world full of songs, adventure and magic. And you do not even touch your soul. Yes, women are very strange, very strange
You who do not like to love
To not suffer, not smile and not cry
You'll see one day.
The trouble you are getting into.
7) Essa Menina - This Girl
SKIP THIS SONG, IT'S A PEDOPHILE ONE. Like Lolita.
8) Pra viver um grande amor - To live A great love
I don't walk alone.
I'm only in good company.
With my guitar
My song and poetry
To live a great love,
It's needed a lot of concentration and a lot of wisdom.
Much seriousness and little laugh
To live a great love,
The mystery is to be a man of one woman
Well, to be from many - pity! - it's for everyone
Neither has any value
To live a great love, first
One must become a gentleman
And be everything to your lady
Be that as it may
We must make the body an abode
Where the beloved woman lives close
And stand outside with a sword
To live a great love
To live a great love right
It's not enough just to be a good guy
You must also have a lot of chest
Rower breast
It is always necessary to keep in mind
A credit of roses in the florist
Much more, much more than the dressmaker!
To live a great love
It count points know how to do things
Scrambled eggs, shrimps, soups
Sauces, steaks with fries, all kinds of food
For after love
And what's better than going to the kitchen
And prepare with love a chicken
With a rich and delicious farofinha (roasted manioc flour)
For your great love?
To live a great love, it is very
Very important to always live together
And until, if possible, only one deceased
Not to die of pain
It takes permanent care
Not only with the body but also with the mind
For any "low" your beloved feels
And it cools a little the love
You must be courteous without courtesy
Sweet and conciliatory without cowardice
Know how to make money with poetry
Do not be a winner
But all this is no use at all
If in this dark and raging jungle
You don't know how to find the great beloved one
To live a great love!
I do not walk alone.
I'm just in good company.
With my guitar
My song and poetry
9) Chega de saudade - No more missing
Go my sadness
And tell her that without her I can not be
Tell her in a prayer
That she come back
Because I can not suffer anymore
Enough of missing you
The reality is that without her
There is no peace, there is no beauty
It's just sadness and melancholy
That does not leave me
But if she comes back
If she comes back
What a beautiful thing
What a crazy thing
For there are fewer fish to swim in the sea
Than the kisses I'll give in her mouth (little kisses and little fishes sound the same in portuguese)
In my arms, the hugs
There will be millions of hugs
So tight, so glued, so silent,
Hugs and kisses and caresses without end
Because we need to finish this
Of you living without me
I don't want you far away from me anymore
Let's end with this, you are not living without me.
10) Garota de Ipanema - This is a known one from you all!!! It even has an english version.
played
here by Mr. Frank Sinatra <3 It's the story of a beautiful girl at the beach. A carioca girl, like me, but I didn't even care too much about the beach!
11) Samba de Gesse
It may seems
That I always knew you
That you appeared to me
When I did not see a way to be
We forget
That we change our well-being
Ah if I could
I had waited just for you.
When dawn
I see you at my side
I say in prayer
That life is beautiful, just like you
Me that was crazy
I was sad
I stopped being sad
It seems that there is only you and me
12) São demais os perigos dessa vida
The dangers of this life are too many.
For those who have passion mainly
When a moon arrives suddenly
And if stays in the sky, as it is forgotten
And if the moon that acts wild
Come join any song
Then you have to be careful
Because a woman must walk near
A woman who is made
Of music, moonlight and feeling
And that life does not want to be so perfect
A woman who is like the moon itself:
So beautiful that it only spreads suffering
So full of modesty that only lives naked
13) Cotidiano N. 2
There are days I do not know what happens
I open my Neruda and turn off the sun
I mix poetry with cachaça
And I ended up discussing football.
But no problem,
I have my guitar
I wake up in the morning, bread and butter
And a lot of blood in the newspaper.
then the children arrive
and I come to find Herodes natural
Then I'll do the laundry with the mistress.
Maybe our day will come.
And I laugh because rich people laughs at random.
it also costs nothing to dream
On Saturdays at home I get wasted
and dream phenomenal solutions
but when sleep comes night dies
The day tells stories always the same
Sometimes I want to believe, but I can not,
it's all a total nonsense
Then I ask God: "Listen, my friend,
If you went to undo why did you do it? "
14) Apelo
Oh my love do not go away
See life as it cries
You see how sad this song is.
Oh, I beg you not to be absent.
Because the pain you now feel
Just forget with forgiveness.
Ah, my beloved, forgive me
For although it still hurts
The sadness I caused
I beg you not to destroy
So many things that are yours
For an evil that I have already paid
Oh my love, if you only knew
The sadness in my prayers
That I cry praying for you
If you knew for just a moment
All repentance
How sad everything has turned
If you knew how sad it is for me
To know that you left
Without even saying goodbye
Oh my love, you would come back
And again would fall in my arms crying
15) Insensatez - How Insensitive
This one has an english version as well!
Here
16) Valsa para uma menininha - Waltz for a little girl
Remeber song #7? well, this one is totally different! It's about a little girl and he says that he doesn't want her to grow up and remain always his little girl. It's so cute and I get so sad because I think of my niece and I think about what any father would wish that his little girl would never grow up, and I think of me when I become a mother and I will have this same feeling. I cry so much with this song. and I'm crying right now again.
Little girl from my heart
I just want you
Three feet from the ground
Little girl, do not grow no more.
Stay small in my song
Little imp lady
Clapping hands
Pretending scared
From the bogeyman
My little girl, you are such a grace
A little something like that
Starting to live
Stay that way, my love.
Without growing
Because the world is bad, it's bad.
And you will suddenly suffer.
A disappointment
Because life is only
Your bogeyman
Stay like this, stay like this
Always like this
And remember me.
For the things I gave
And do not forget me too.
When you finally know
Of everything I loved.
17) Tarde em Itapoã - Afternoon in Itapoã
An old bathing trunks
The day to lazy around
A sea that does not have size
And a rainbow in the air
Then in the square Caymmi
Feeling lazy in the body
And on a wicker mat
Drinking coconut water
It's good
Spend an afternoon in Itapuã
To the sun that burns in Itapuã
Listening to the sea of Itapuã
Talk of love in Itapuã
While the sea opens a brand new green
Argue with sweetness, drinking a corkscrew cachaça
And with a forgotten look
At the meeting of sky and sea
Very slowly, I'm feeling
The whole earth rolling
Then feel the shiver
The wind that the night brings
And the says-it-says-that soft
That sprouts from the coconut palms
And in the serene spaces
Without yesterday or tomorrow
Sleeping in the dark arms
From the moon of Itapuã
18) A tonga da mironga do kabulete
Oh god. This one is too complex to even think of translating. First because this expression is a nagô curse. at the time they wrote this song, the country was on a dictatorship , so thusing this expression was a way to run away from the censorship. So, I will use some free translation here, and the expression is something like "shove it in your mother's ass!" Just listen and enjoy.
You who read and do not know
You who pray and do not believe
You come in and do not fit
You will have to live
19) Tatamirô
Now it's only getting worst. This one is dedicated to religion (again, umbanda/candomblé). I love this kind of songs, it's a spiritual thing. Can't fucking try to explain. Doesn't even find something on wikipedia. Someday I will do a better blogpost about this.
20) O canto de Oxum
Same thing about the previous one.
21) Maria vai com as outras
And again.
22) No colo da Serra
A little house
On the edge of the mountain
A span of land
To plant
A woman's lap
A companion
A Brazilian woman
To love
If I have to fight
I'll fight for her.
If I have to die
I'm going to die for her.
And if I have to be happy
You'll have to be happy too!
Men came from the night
In cries of war
They hurt the earth
The sky and the sea
Men stayed on the ground
Looking at the stars
But without being able to see them
In the sky shine
And what else to promise
To the heirs of life?
And what verses to do
To the conceived woman?
And when someone dies like that
It's going to be death for me too!
If I have to die
I'm going to die for life!
23) Como dizia o poeta
Who has passed through this life and did not live,
It may be more but it knows less than I do.
Because life is only given to those who have given it,
For those who loved, for those who cried, for those who suffered.
Who has never enjoyed a passion
You'll never have anything, no.
There is no evil worse than unbelief,
Even love that does not pay
It's better than loneliness.
Open your arms, my brother, drop it.
Why sum up if we can can share.
I frankly do not even want to know
Of those who do not go because they are afraid of suffering.
Woe to those who do not tear the heart,
This one will not be sorry.
Who has never enjoyed a passion,
You'll never have anything, no.
24) Mais um adeus
Another goodbye
A separation
Again, loneliness
Again, suffering
Another goodbye
That can not Wait
Love is an agony
Come at night, go during the day.
It's a joy
And suddenly
A desire to cry
Counterpoint
Look, baby, look out.
With your cold
Do not get serene
Do not take ice cream
Gin is a poison.
Careful, honey.
Do not drink too much
Save yourself for me
Absence is a suffering
And if you have a moment
Write me a note
And send the money
For the rent
Because the due
It's not like me:
Can not wait
Love is an agony
Come at night, go during the day.
It's a joy
And suddenly
A desire to cry
25) O velho e a Flor
By heavens and seas I walked
I saw a poet and I saw a king
Hoping to know what love is
No one could tell me
And I already wanted to die.
When an old man with a flower said so
Love is the affection
It is the thorn that is not seen in every flower
It's life when
Arrives bleeding
Opened in love petals
26) A rosa desfolhada
I try to make up our love
In your absence
All the madness, all the martyrdom
Of immense passion
Your turntable, our portrait.
A careless time
All stepped on, all broken
Everything on the floor
And in every corner
Your disenchantment
Your melancholy
Your sad desperate figure
Before what I told you
And then the amazement and soon the insult
Lacerated love
And then the mourning before the agony
From the fact accomplished
Silent
Became the rose
On the floor without it's petals
That I with my fingers tried with fear
Rebuild from nothing:
Your perfume, your sweet hair
Your beloved skin
All undone, all lost
The bare rose
27/28/29 - I will skip those because my head is a little tired. it's too rough to try to translate bossa nova. Bossa nova is meant to be appreciate it.
30) Regra três
So many you have done that she grew tired
because you, boy
abuse the rule number three
where less is worth more.
At first, she cryied
but decided to stay
it's because the happy moments
had left roots in her grief
afterwards, she lost hope
because the forgiveness also tires of forgiving.
There's always the day the hole things falls apart
go enjoy your desert
but leave the lightbulb lit
if someday the sadness wishes to enter
and a drink nearby
because you can be certain
that you will cry.
That's it my dearest. Try to listen to this at least once in your lifetime. Share your thoughts and any questions I will be more than pleased to talk with you about it. And, for the end, I will put here a picture of a future set that sums up all my love for bossa nova. Tropical Gir, shot by @kasha will be out next year!
