A keresés eredménye oldal 34

Te vagy a végzetem

A szerelmed
Az ok
A létezésemnek
Az életemnek.
 
Karjaidban
Akarom megtudni
Hogy boldog vagyok.
Benned élve.
 
Két lélek
Teljességében egyesül.
Tudni akarom
Hogy a végzetem te vagy-e?
 
Szeretlek, mélyen
Legbelül az enyém vagy.
Szeretlek, kívánlak
A végsőkig szeretni.
 
Az az ajándék vagy
Mit az élet nekem adott
A végzetem, szerelmem, te vagy.
 
Veled akarom megosztani
Bármit ami jön majd, így akarom én.
Még ha csak egy fellobbanás ez,
Nem kérek többet, ha mellettem vagy.
 
Mindig melled
Ahova csak akarsz menni.
A csillagokig
Elvihetsz engem.
 
Szeretlek, mélyen
Legbelül az enyém vagy.
Szeretlek, kívánlak
A végsőkig szeretni.
 
Az az ajándék vagy
Mit az élet nekem adott
A végzetem, szerelmem, te vagy.
 
Veled akarom megosztani
Bármit ami jön majd, így akarom én.
Még ha csak egy fellobbanás ez,
Nem kérek többet, ha mellettem vagy.
 

My favourite hero

When things go wrong,
when the heart breaks
when I'm drowning in my coffee break
when my guardian angel sinks to the bottom
when I no loger want to be a fairy
when all cases are conundrums
and yet I can't give up,
you might think I forget about you,
and maybe you think I abandonned you.
 
My golden little guy
My favourite hero
My beloved sweetie
you give me the strength to hang on
when life ruins my life
and others' lives too.
It's your smile that lights my way,
my favourite hero... my favourite hero...
my favourite hero... my favourite hero...
my favourite hero...
 
When you fall asleep, you become heavy,
that's to prevent me from flying away.
Little guy, my great love,
it's for you I want to win the day.
And if sometimes I feel sad,
water falling on my hands,
you come closer and whisper to me
that you are there just for me.
 
My golden little guy
My favourite hero
My beloved sweetie
you give me the strength to hang on
when life ruins my life
and others' lives too.
It's your smile that lights my way,
my favourite hero... my favourite hero...
my favourite hero... my favourite hero...
my favourite hero...
 
Come on, my hero,
Come on, little guy,
Come now, sleep tight my baby
my favourite hero... my favourite hero...
my favourite hero... my favourite hero...
my favourite hero...
 
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It's too easy to say I love you

For a while, you just sigh,
you let out an 'I love you'
because it's a pleasant thing to say.
As for me, I want a joking word
to escape a loving word.
Maybe it's fear,
maybe it's doubt,
maybe a mere memory of these dreams you cry
and bring to their knees.1
 
It's too easy to say 'I love you'
It's too common to say 'I love you'
Time flies and wind blows over the words.
It's too easy to say 'I love you'
It's too common to say 'I love you'
Nights flow and oblivion settles on the words.
 
On a loving boat
I'm conjugating now
And I'd like to reach
the future of now
to whisper 'I love you'
in a dim daylight.
I look at you, I heal myself
and you don't understand why I stay quiet.
 
It's too easy to say 'I love you'
It's too common to say 'I love you'
Time flies and wind blows over the words.
It's too easy to say 'I love you'
It's too common to say 'I love you'
Nights flow and oblivion settles on the words.
 
It's too easy to say 'I love you'
It's too common to say 'I love you'
Time flies and wind blows over the words.
It's too easy to say 'I love you'
It's too common to say 'I love you'
Nights flow and oblivion settles on the words.
 

• 1. I listened to the song, and apparently that's really what she says. I suppose the idea is 'the memory of these dreams that are toppled down by sad reality', but the way of saying is rather strange

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I made love with the sea

Lying among stars
as the sun was dying
I sought a smile
on an island of caresses.
 
I made love with the sea
I made love with the sea
 
I cradled my skin to sleep
in my arms
and set my sorrows free
in her1 flowing tenderness
 
I made love with the sea
I made love with the sea
 
Her waves stole
a star2 of light,
sprinkling scales in the sky3
and embelishing with silver
the froth along her sides.
 
And I learnt these words
so as to stop talking.
The alphabet of night
on an etheral breath
came to me and whispered I had to forget you.
 
I made love with the sea
I made love with the sea
 
Though I wouldn't fall asleep
without you around,
there, on a bed of sand,
I dreamt about your sleep.
 
I made love with the sea
I made love with the sea
 
Shall you come back tomorrow
seeking a memory,
you'll have to stay quiet.
I'll teach you at last
how to make love with the sea.
How to make love with the sea.
The sea.
 

• 1. the sea, personified as a woman
• 2. 'astre' is more like 'celestial body' and sounds more poetic than 'star' but I couldn't find anything similar in English
• 3. 'écailler' usually means 'scale (a fish)'' of '(paint) flake off', but here the idea is to compare the reflection of starlight with glittering fish scales

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I love you

I love you,
more than a thousand times I said I love you,
I wrote it in many songs and in the letters I gave you
and in the ones I keep in the drawers without opening.
 
I love you,
I've done smoke signs with the ashtray,
maybe if I say it in a bolero...
Just once and nothing more...
Woman... Wouman... if you can talk to God
you'll see that he can confirm you.
 
I love you,
more than a thousand times I said I love you,
like the summer to the downpour that let it rest,
like the sailor loves the stars in the sea.
 
I love you, to tell it in a more modern language
I bought a fluorescent cap of rapper.
And I say baby I can't stand it
I'll cut my veins if you leave me...
Sex, Bronx, modem, fax
without your love I'd rather be at Alcatraz.
 
I love you,
more than a thousand times I said I love you,
from Greenland to Tierra del Fuego,
from the snow to the tropical sand.
 
I love you,
more than a thousand times I said I love you,
if you still don't hear me I can repeat it
under the light, under the shower and I hope under you.
 
I love you,
if one voice is not enough I'll say: I love you.
If I haven't been clear enough: I love you.
From day to day, year to year and a bit more.
 
My pretty baby, my candy, my tasty and sweet mango... I love you...
From the top of a coconut tree I scream loud darling... I love you...
From balladist, with a bolero or rapping New york style... I love you...
from this salsa without being salsero, asking apologize to Cuba... I love you...
as soloist or with a whole chorus yelling with high volume... I love you...
from heaven to hell wherever you want darling... I love you...
 

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A man to burn

Now that you are the grocery boy
And with tips in your pocket you're a man
At this point you can aim for more
For her too.
 
Her mother, that hag is always the same
With her murder's look, so venal
She'll become a little kind, at the end.
 
You'll feel stronger, a real man, oh yes
Talking 'bout the house you'll buy, oh yes
And she will reward you, offering with abandon.
 
You'll have her, you'll have her, with abandon and with love
You'll have her, but you don't know how much it will cost you!
Run, flee and save something in you!
Don't let them do it,
Don't become a man to burn!
The air, the air that you used to breath not so long ago,
Still smells of him,
of real things, of pure things, of freedom!
 
Oh no, don't ask yourself where, how,
How you'll drag your life
With whom, with whom you'll cancel your name,
for whom?
'Half pound of ham'
'Yes ma'am...
Is your boy still sick?
... what a pity... do you want some little cheese?'
 
Your life spent behind a desk, building
A future that could give her,
The confidence, a car, something to be envied.
You'll have her! You'll have her, you'll have her, with abandon and love.
You'll have her, but you don't know how much it will cost yoy.
Run, flee, and save something in you!
And don't let them do it,
Don't become a man to burn!
 

Your Song

I never imagined
That travelling to the moon would be real
You turn everything upside down
When you kiss my forehead and I discover why
 
I couldn't make it up
 
I feel like I'm dancing for the first time
You are the art that sweetens my skin
From my wandering mind that follows your step
I feel like I'm dancing for the first time next to you, oh
 
I know that in you I can find
That voice that shelters me if the weather gets bad
Everything is perfect if you are
By my side creating a new city
 
I feel like I'm dancing for the first time
You are the art that sweetens my skin
From my wandering mind that follows your step
I feel like I'm dancing for the first time
 
I couldn't make it up
I just want
Your song, oh, oh, oh
 
I feel like I'm dancing for the first time
You are the art that sweetens my skin
From my wandering mind that follows your step
I feel like I'm dancing for the first time next to you, oh
 

Teflon pan

I haven't heard you... In the days of the thundering silence.
I haven't heard you with the mothers of the pain,
you didn't sound neither from afar, for the children, for the elder... forgotten.
I haven't heard you... It could be that I'm not hearing well,
but at the edge of the Neuquen routes,
I haven't heard you while they killed my teacher by the back.
And among our dissapeared songs
I never heard the sound of your resisting cover,
that resists in understanding that there are so many
who in their poor pans only keep an illusion.
 
Teflon fan, return to the drawer
the street belongs to the militant pans...
With brave smell of spontaneous demonstration.
Teflon fan, go to the bazaars,
or to sound with the militar drums...
As many times I heard you sounding.
 
I haven't heard you... When the noise of the factories stopped.
when April filled its sea of tears,
I haven't heard you with the parents of the teenager december...suffocated.
I haven't heard you... It could be that my ears hear poorly,
but I haven't heard you at the rural exposition,
claiming for wage of the mate grower hands,
for the profitability of the workers,
for the coming time to come for everyone.
I haven't heard you nor I will because there's no way
of joining your greedy elbow, with my open heart..
 
Teflon fan, return to the drawer
From the furnitures of the elegant houses,
that the cooks will miss you.
Teflon fan, go to the bazaars,
or to sound in the liberal concerts...
As many times I heard you sounding.
 
I haven't heard you... In the Kosteki and Santillan bridge,.
I haven't heard you for the sugar cane mill in Tucuman,
I haven't heard you in the evictions, neither in the flooded neighbourhoods...on this side.
I haven't heard you... In the corner of Rosario that blasted,
when the angel of the bike fell,
and his little angels were left without food.
And I never heard you ringing from here below,
for a jobless young, adrift.
It must be because from up there, form the highest floors
the scare and the wounds are never seen.
 
Teflon fan, return to the drawer...
I'm staing in a student demonstration
where you never sounded.
Teflon fan, go to the bazaars,
or to get filled with the most delicious foods
that can't be found in the street...
Teflon fan... go to cook.
 

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The Anti-Hero (Part I)

Lock the door cause I've already heard a noise outside
They might want to steal my new motorcycle
Might want to rape you but this doesn't even matter
It's pretty much the sort of shit that happen every day, you should just look out the window
 
And suddenly I thought what a fucking beautiful death if I die
Defending the goods that I have bought on time and in installments
Pretending that my heart is yours, pretend to die for us
But no, I'll kill the thief
And you'll now have devotion to me
Me, a floor licker
Who can't even drink without beating the shit out of you
 
Lock the door cause I've already heard a noise outside
They might want to steal my new motorcycle
Might want to rape you but this doesn't even matter
It's pretty much the sort of shit that happen every day, you should just look out the window
 
And suddenly I thought what a fucking beautiful death if I die
Defending the goods that I have bought on time and in installments
Pretending that my heart is yours, pretend to die for us
But no, I'll kill the thief
And you'll have devotion to meMe, a floor licker
Who can't even drink without beating the shit out of you
 
Lock the door cause I've already heard a noise outside
They might want to steal my new motorcycle
Might want to rape you but this doesn't even matter
It's pretty much the sort of shit that happen every day, you should just look out the window
 
And suddenly I thought what a fucking beautiful death if I die
Defending the goods that I have bought on time and in installments
Pretending that my heart is yours, pretend to die for us
But no, I'll kill the thief
And you'll have devotion to meMe, a floor licker
Who can't even drink without beating the shit out of you
 
How long shall I pursue the good?
I should chase after someone else again
Again, again
 
How long shall I pursue the good?
I should chase after someone else again
Again, again
 
And suddenly I thought what a fucking beautiful death if I die
Defending the goods that I have bought on time and in installments
Pretending that my heart is yours, pretend to die for us
But no, I'll kill the thief
And you'll have devotion to meMe, a floor licker
Who can't even drink without beating the shit out of you
 
How long shall I pursue the good?
I should chase after someone else again
Again, again
 
How long shall I pursue the good?
I should chase after someone else again
Again, again
 

The harem

I'm dancing with you,
over your shoulder I'm looking at him.
Angel or devil,
who am I, I don't know anymore.
 
This madness killed me,
this magic drunk me.
You killed everything in me,
so many hearts I wounded.
 
(So many hearts I wounded.4x)
 
Chorus 2x:
They put me in shackles,
everytime when they tell me,
you to break clubs,
around you is harem you throw money
you hug old friends.
 
And I'm wronging again, but I know
you will come my head,
black soul, you are black all of you,
black eyes like nights.
 
From such as you, I have headache,
kiss such as you is crime,
such as you kiss is the best
they will come my head.
 
Chorus 2x:
They put me in shackles,
everytime when they tell me,
you to break clubs,
around you is harem you throw money
you hug old friends.
 
Chorus 2x:
They put me in shackles,
everytime when they tell me,
you to break clubs,
around you is harem you throw money
you hug old friends.
 

Father, I dedicate to you this song

Up there,where you are and reside, father
a song that i would write for you,i told you that one day
i kept my word, but i was a little bit late
i weren't able to listen to it and you travelled far away
 
Father, I dedicate to you this song
Father, my soul, i am in a lot of pain
around me there is so much hapiness, but you are still in my mind
my thought will always follow you,my dear
 
if you could know,my father, how much i miss you
you are gone, and our home is full of sadness
you left and i couldn't take a word from you
you probably had an 'appointment' with death,father
 
Father, I dedicate to you this song
Father, my soul, i am in a lot of pain
around me there is so much hapiness, but you are still in my mind
my thought will always follow you,my dear
 

Almost forget you

Almost forget you in another arms
had it not been the memory of your kisses
had it not been for how much I loved you
almost forget you, love, with another lips.
 
Almost forget you with another lips,
ahead of surrender of another love, pure and sincere
ahead the joy of listening ''my love, I love you''
almost forget you, almost forget you.
 
Almost achieved to take you out of my soul,
that love so great you gave me,
and with no resentment and in front of you I say:
Almost forget you, love, with another love.
 
Almost forget you with another lips,
ahead of surrender of another love, pure and sincere
ahead the joy of listening ''my love, I love you''
almost forget you, almost forget you.
 
Almost achieved to take you out of my soul,
that love so great you gave me,
and with no resentment and in front of you I say:
Almost forget you, love, with another love.
 
Just learning.

Give you my life

They say I only have to wish for it,
they say that you're looking for me eternally
they say you're mine and I'm yours
they say you've come to change my life
I say: where have you been all this time?
it will be my luck one day, to have you.
 
I say I'm going, and I'm dying to see you
and to give you my life, sell you my soul
staying by your side despite it's not necessary
feel this winter is over
look each other inside, lose our breath
dying of the need
break our record each morning
calm has come.
 
They say that we leave for heaven
they say if I can, you can
they say each night is our star
which lights the chant of sirens
I say: where have you been all this time?
I say I desire you, but I'm afraid of you
it will be my luck one day, to have you.
 
I say I'm going, and I'm dying to see you
and to give you my life, sell you my soul
staying by your side despite it's not necessary
feel this winter is over
look each other inside, lose our breath
dying of the need
break our record each morning
calm...
 
I'm dying to see you,
to give you my life, sell you my soul
staying by your side despite it's not necessary
feel this winter is over
look each other inside, lose our breath
dying of the need
break our record each morning
calm...
 
To give you my life, sell you my soul
staying by your side despite it's not necessary
feel this winter is over
look each other inside, lose our breath
dying of the need
break our record each morning
calm has come.
 
Just learning.

In black and white

I look at a picture of my mother
she was happy, she would have been three years old
she clutched a doll
the most desired gift
It was her birthday party
 
a faded black and white
I look at my mother at the time, and I see again
my same smile
 
And I think about how many times
I felt her far away
And I think about how many times ...
 
I wanted to talk to her about me
i wanted to ask her at least why of her
long and hostile silences
and moments of nonchalance
punctually I showed myself inflexible
inaccessible and fair
intimately fierce
fearing a silly rivalry
 
I look at a picture of my mother
she was happy, she would have been been twenty years old
hair gathered in a silk scarf
and a faded expression
Sharp glimpse of the sixties
of a beaming Catania 1
I scrutinize her in detail, and I find again
my own look
 
And I think about how many times
I felt her far away
And I think about how many times ...
 
I wanted to talk to her about me
I wanted to ask her at least why of her
long and hostile silences
and that arbitrary indolence
punctually I showed myself inflexible
inaccessible and fair
intimately fierce fearing
the innate rivalry
 
I wanted to talk to her about me
I wanted to ask her at least why ......
I wanted to talk to her about me
I wanted to ask her at least why ......
 

• 1. the town of Sicily where Carmen Consoli is born

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I love you

Your hands are my caress
my everyday accords
I love you because your hands
work for justice
 
If I love you is because you are
my love, my accomplice and everything
And in the street, elbow to elbow
we're much more than two
 
Your eyes are my spell
against the bad workday
I love you for your look
that looks and sows future
 
Your mouth that is yours and mine
your mouth is not wrong
I love you because your mouth
knows to yell rebelliousness
 
If I love you is because you are
my love, my accomplice and everything
And in the street, elbow to elbow
we're much more than two
 
And for your sincere face
and your wandering walk
and your crying for the world
Because you're people I love you
 
And because love is not a halo
nor a candid moral
And because we're a couple
who knows it's not lonely
 
I love you in my heaven
I mean, that in my country
people lives happy
even if they're not allowed to
 
If I love you is because you are
my love, my accomplice and everything
And in the street, elbow to elbow
we're much more than two
 

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I love you

If I love you is because you are
my love, my accomplice and everything
And in the street, elbow to elbow
we're much more than two
we're much more than two
 
Your hands are my caress
my everyday accords
I love you because your hands
work for justice
 
If I love you is because you are
my love, my accomplice and everything
And in the street, elbow to elbow
we're much more than two
we're much more than two
 
Your eyes are my spell
against the bad workday
I love you for your look
that looks and sows future
 
Your mouth that is yours and mine
your mouth is not wrong
I love you because your mouth
knows to yell rebelliousness
 
If I love you is because you are
my love, my accomplice and everything
And in the street, elbow to elbow
we're much more than two
we're much more than two
 
And for your sincere face
and your wandering walk
and your crying for the world
Because you're people I love you
 
And because love is not a halo
nor a candid moral
And because we're a couple
who knows it's not lonely
 
I love you in my heaven
I mean, that in my country
people lives happy
even if they're not allowed to
 
If I love you is because you are
my love, my accomplice and everything
And in the street, elbow to elbow
we're much more than two
And in the street, elbow to elbow
we're much more than two
 

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The early bird

Listen boy that it can happen
that something in life will call you.
Love issues sometimes use to be
simple things to overcome.
That one who comes singing and goes
is so happy that he can't be happier
and if he says first
'I love you', he's winning.
 
The early bird catches the worm.
Who comes first will win.
The early bird catches the worm.
Life stuff and nothing more.
 
The gone days will never return
run to her side and make up your mind.
Love issues sometimes use to be
simple things to overcome.
Go and calm your nerves boy
that girl likes you surely
and if you say first
'I love you', you're winning.
 

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The double zero

Cut your hair boy
or do you think
that in this country one can be
different of the others
What's that thing of the long hair
the t-shirt and the blue jeans?
What's that thing of going to the DiTella
the soireé and the happening?
 
The double zero grinds its teeth
Where's the brave who will face it?
With the short hair
and the tailor made suit
don't be afraid of going to jail
if robbery is your vocation
 
Learn of those men
of backwards and forwards
who combed their hair
parted in the chest
Who if they put them in jail
was for being very manly
fighters and malefactors
but never faggots.
 
The double zero grinds its teeth
Where's the brave who will face it?
With the short hair
you have a thief license
Because it doesn't matter to be honest
but keeping the looks.
 
Don't come to me with the story
of the grandpa portrait
with the beard and the sideburns
the long hair and the quiff
Have an american cut
Finish your insolence
Don't you know that the short hair
guarantees decency, eh?
 
The double zero grinds its teeth
Where's the brave who will face it?
Cut your hair boy
or do you think
that in this country one can be
different of the others
 

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Heroine

My body and head are spinning
How are you feeling now?
We are like a magnet
We hug and push aside
You make me crazy
And out of my senses
Yes, you may know that
You make me out of my mind
You make me dance
And drunk without alchole
Yes, you may know that
You make me a naughty girl
 
In a movie only for us
The real hero was you, baby
As always the way you do
Like a splendid hero
Do whatever you want
Even if you're mean
And you make me sad
You need to be yourself
Even if i'm not feeling well
And it's sad ending
 
The show must go on
The show must go on
 
You always fight to the bitter end
And try to cover everything
Why did you gave me wings and
Want me to fall
You say to me 'good girl'
And make me take my tears back
Yes, you may know that
You snow me
 
In a drama only for us
The real hero was you, baby
As always the way you do
Like a splendid hero
Do whatever you want
Even if you're mean
And you make me sad
You need to be yourself
Even if it hurts me
And it is sad ending
 
The show must go on
The show must go on
 
Do whatever you want
Even if you're mean
And you make me sad
You need to be yourself
Even if it hurts me
And it is sad ending
 
The show must go on
The show must go on
You must go on
 
Blink/Blackjack

Why would I want to cry?

Why would I want to cry?
If I don't have a cousin 1 to hear me,
the one who used to listen,
it's living in glory 2
and don't remember me.
 
Who has seen a shepherdess?
decorated with wealthy fur,
and by a crown they've put on her
a little patch of green laurel.
 
Guard of the real gate,
cure my grief 3
that I can't hold it anymore.
 
I'm asking God
to take away the grief my heart has.
 

• 1. Refering to any woman.
• 2. She's dead.
• 3. Interpreting //duquelas// by context, I've never listened to that word in my entire life and couldn't find a definition, not even as a slang.

Just learning.

I Want More of You

You are that temptation
I don't know how to say no anymore
Now
(I want more of you)
(I want more of you)
(I want more of you now)
 
I can't resist it, I want you to come near
Now I need your body again
I know that taste, of your skin
I can't recall anything better, it's like honey
 
You are that temptation
I don't know how to say no anymore
I'm just going to ask you a favor
It's just that...
 
I want more of you
Some piece of your skin
To drive me crazy
I want to do it again
I want more of you
Time and time again
Just say yes to me
Do it for me
Because I want more of you
 
I can't resist it when it comes to you, yeah
I'd do anything for you, and even more
Your mouth is sweet, draws me in and tempts me
I just want a little more, come, come closer
 
You are that temptation
I don't know how to say no anymore
I'm just going to ask you a favor
It's just that...
 
I want more of you
Some piece of your skin
To drive me crazy
I want to do it again
I want more of you
Time and time again
Just say yes to me
Do it for me
Because I want more of you
(I want more of you)
 
You are that temptation
I don't know how to say no anymore
I'm just going to ask you a favor
It's just that...
 
I want more of you
Some piece of your skin
To drive me crazy
I want to do it again
I want more of you
Again and again
Just say yes to me
Do it for me
Because I want more of you (I want more of you)
Some piece of your skin (some piece of your skin)
I want more of you (I want more of you)
Time and time again (Ooh ooh ooh)
 
Because I want more of you
 

Morning star

For wanting to see you, morning star.
I stumbled and fell coming back of wandering.
The twentieth century passes and the central city ties me
with its hand of ethereal concrete, to the vice of getting up early.
I raised my eyes to the sky, when I was crossing the plaza.
Wanting to see you star, but I couldn't see anything.
 
Nothing but miserable concrete lofts.
Behind the downed foliage of some dried trees.
That vision distracted me, and I stepped on dog poop
I screamed la conchasumadre, and the police car stopped.
Oh, oh my luck, what a bad luck.
For wanting to see you, morning star.
 
Accused by the cop who saw me watching the sky
and screaming conchasumadre at the Morning star.
Under suspicion of addicted, to the city drugs.
I was added to the register og urban ilegality
Oh, oh my luck, what a bad luck.
For wanting to see you, morning star.
 
Morning star, I dreamed with your light in my imprisionment.
It bather my flesh, and my flesh bathed with my shadow the floor
Of the plains away from the great piling.
Where I was leaving my song all alone to the open sky.
My awakening was so sad, like my bad luck
Wanting to see you star, but I couldn't see anything.
 
Nothing but miserable concrete lofts.
Behind the downed foliage of some dried trees.
In the city that opresses me, to the vice of getting up early.
Where nobody warns, but many silence,
Ignoring you. Morning star.
Ignoring you. Morning star.
 

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Soft, Soft

It is said that in the heart
of who doesn't have the love,
there is the sadness of who lived, but was never born.
You, without love,
might not understand,
but you'll find, in my eyes, what you don't have.
 
A soft, soft heart.
That's my heart if it's soft, soft.
You're gonna be warm, warm to me,
from this night onwards.
A soft, soft heart
you found in me. Soft, soft.
And my warm, warm love
will grow for you.
 
A soft, soft heart.
That's my heart if it's soft, soft.
You're gonna be warm, warm to me,
from this night onwards.
A soft, soft heart
you found in me. Soft, soft.
And my warm, warm love
will grow for you.
 
A soft, soft heart...
 

True Love

Guajira, rythm calls you to dance, to enjoy
 
Friend, ask for another drink, damn it
that this singer invites it 1
even though, you don't care
I'm gonna tell this story of my life:
 
I really loved this woman,
from my soul, the dearest,
She betrayed me, that slut, damn it
what an ungrateful behaviour
made me drink,
made me a trashy person.
 
Into drugs I jumpped, my friend
and I was taken to jail
my friends forgot about me,
only my mother cried,
to God she asked and begged
to save his beloved son.
 
Remember what I say,
in prison and our beds
only our mother loves us, damn it
there's no money, no friends
pretty guajira, my rythm calls out for you!
 
Guajira, rythm calls you to dance, to enjoy
 
In the piano, Don Rubén González
 
Hey, buddy
looks who's coming over there, buddy
Barbarito Torres
 
Guajira, rythm calls you to dance, to enjoy
 
The two words which
fill me with joy the most
are when someone calls me ''son''
and I say ''mom''.
 
Guajira, rythm calls you to dance, to enjoy
 
The mother is a provider
of honey 2 that never ends
she's a star in Earth,
shines much more brighter than the sun
 
Guajira, rythm calls you to dance, to enjoy
 
She's not afraid of darkness,
addiction and its dread,
I think my mother and all her charm
cover me with tenderness.
 

• 1. He will pay for the drink
• 2. Refers to the sweet things in life, though

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Ole bullfighter

I'm gonna tell you the story that circles in my memory
about the famous bullfighter who came from Bayaderos.
He wasn't skilled in the cape but he was of the vil garrote1
he liked the corridas2 but without the lights on
 
He aroused the heifers close to Las Tendillas 3
He didn't take assistants, picadors nor rosaries
He only took his sharp rapier
he was always carrying it ready
 
Ole bullfighter take off your hat
Ole bullfighter take off your hat
 
But one day his luck turned red suddenly
a husband of Miura bred left him a garbage
He marked on him two razor trajectories
but the story of that man doesn't end here
At hel the devil said 'Welcome Antonio'
he presented his wife a lively mulatta.
She noticed his sharp rapier
he was always carrying it ready
 
The devil was combind and something weird he found
when a third horn came out a little and tender one.
He kicked Antonio out of hell for evil
you can consider yourself comulgated.
He left with two ears and a tail
the same ones that he brought since little.
 
Hey bullfighter yes, hey bullfighter yes
look at him he doesn't takes assistants
but he doesn't mind in cutting horns
look at him, he comes from hell
and he returned without an assistant
 
Hey bullfighter yes, hey bullfighter yes
take off your hat for me.
Hey bullfighter yes, hey bullfighter yes
take off your hat for me.
 

• 1. The evil club. He's not meaning the instrument to strangulate, but his club between the legs
• 2. bullfights, also meaning cums
• 3. A plaza in Cordoba

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Emilio the well-digger

He was dumped to the garbage
for being born prematurely
Like Moses he scaped from death
sailing by the waters of a torrent
Time passed, the child grew
but he's still hidden in his nest
 
Emilio the well-digger is the son of fear
and even if love were like fire
Emilio would be an ashtray
Emilio the well-digger is the son of fear
and if love were like fire
who wouldn't be an ashtray
 
He recieves the things from the sea
son of the things you use to throw
His skin is darker than any night
he has no stars to make a clasp
he's the prince of the sewers
he's partner of all the rats.
 
If you came down to the sewer
you'd be the ninth wonder
but you walk stepping in his sky
that's why Emilio will never have consolation
 
He's the prince of the sewers
he's partner of all the rats
Emilio can't buy tobacco
he carries in the skin the stigma of the armpit
He's the prince
He's the prince
 

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I Want The Truth

Be convincing
If you want to tell me you love me
I want the truth in your voice
Be convincing
No one accepts any more lies
I want the truth for us
 
I don't care about who you call
Or who are you seeing out there
But I won't let you become blinded by the love
That there is between us
If we're together till today
It was the love that was important
That makes us go on because we have something beautiful to believe in
 
It gives me strength even to forget
When I saw those messages on your phone
 
Be convincing
If you want to tell me you love me
I want the truth in your voice
Be convincing
No one accepts any more lies
I want the truth for us
 
I live in Rio de Janeiro
Hostage to the violence caused by drug dealing
Explain to me, deep within, who cares about this situation?
In Africa, the Pope condemns abortion and condom usage
Explain to me where we come from, explain to me!
Fátima1's third secret2, explain to me!
Explain our apathy when we see the whole Amazon being cut down...
 
Tell me who really cares about this situation
Because when the curtains close, our illumination will soon follow!
 
Be convincing
If you want to tell me you love me
I want the truth in your voice
Be convincing
No one accepts any more lies
I want the truth for us
I want the truth in your eyes
I want the truth in your voice
 
No one accepts any more lies
I want the truth for us
 

• 1. Our Lady of Fátima
• 2. It's said that one of Virgin Mary's apparitions revealed a series of of apocalyptic visions and prophecies which were supposedly given to three young Portuguese shepherds in 1917. The third secret is controversial. If you want more info, check here:

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Vomero and Mergellina

You live in a house in Vomero,
I live in Mergellina.
You sleep under the trees,
I sleep on the seacoast.
With creepers and ivy
Is entwined your bed.
I lie on the fine sand
And a rock is my pillow.
 
Let's get married! Let's get married!
'Cause if this marriage
Is united by love,
I'll see you on Vomero
From the seacoast of Mergellina.
 
You hear how the birds sing
In the gardens.
I hear from Posillipo
The sounds of guitars and mandolins.
If with joy and melancholy
San Martino looks at you,
I hear the Vesuvius
That whistles to me.
 
Let's get married! Let's get married!
'Cause if this marriage
Is united by love,
My beauty, from the Vomero
You'll see me in Mergellina.
 
You say: 'From Vomero
The sky is bluer'.
I say: 'The sea of Naples
Is the feast of all parties!'
And if on the trees
The leaves whisper to you,
From the untroubled sea
The boats and waves sing for me.
 
Let's get married! Let's get married!
'Cause if this marriage
Gives us two children,
A son will be named Vomero,
A daughter will be named Mergellina.
 
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A Hidden Woman

There is in my heart
A woman who’s waiting
For the right moment and the hour
To offer her gifts
 
There are in my eyes
More than enough torments
Of courage and confessions
To speak my mind
 
A hidden woman within me
A hidden woman, ready for every struggle
Would like that, at her awakening, you hear her voice
And that you be there…
 
And when I stay quiet
I point out to the silence
What I want to scream
With or without violence
 
There is in my heart
A woman who dances
Fortunate from the joy
Of having left childhood
 
A hidden woman within me
A hidden woman, ready for any struggle
Would like that, at her awakening, you hear her voice
And that you be there to extend your arms to her (x2)
 

Stephen

When will we have walked our eyes to heaven
Only to trip on reality one day
Forgetting the earth under our feet
For a cloud that passed
 
When will we be afraid of storms
Of these burning sarcophagi
Fearing the shadow when evening comes
Living an illusion
 
Who knows
But who can know
How many summers from Hell
We have left to live before the Exodus
We’ve plundered, emptied the seas
And trafficked the codes
 
We ignored the alarm
The foretold signs
We lost our soul
The only thing left is to abandon all
 
What will be left?
A life of stone
After so many lives
Happy on earth
Just as many broken lives
And we must go away
 
Deadly winds
Burning our hemispheres
It’s high time for us to get fresh air
To emigrate to Jupiter
To leave like the swallows
 
They all became crazy
This is what they’ll say of us
They’ll write on our stelae
“Your home was beautiful.”
 
And we rolled
To the bottom of the slope
Nothing to brake
Our descent
 
We’re going to lose
Like the dragonflies
We must choose
The sky or the earth
 
What will be left?
A life of stone
After so many lives
Happy on earth
Just as many broken lives
And we must go away
 
The scale balances
We must seize it
Space extends its cords
Space is pulling us in
 
To go away
Yes, we must go away
 

I will return

I still see the train moving away
And you
WHo dry that tear - I'll be back
How can I last a year without you.
 
Now write me, wait for me, time will pass
One year is not a century - I'll be back
How difficult it is to stay without you.
 
You are
You are my life, how many memories
Without you
I'll be back
I'll come back.
 
Since you started, loneliness started for me
Around me the memory, of the beautiful days of our love
The rose you left me, is now dead
And I keep it in a book, I never stop reading.
 
Let's start again together, I love you so much
Time flies, wait for me, I'll be back
I always think, you know, and the time will pass.
 
You
You are my life
love
My love
all these memories
One year is not a century
Without you
I'll be back
I'll be back
I always think you know
I'll be back
I'll be back
 

I love you so much I could cry

Versions:
Raise your stare to this christmas sky
Wish for all your dreams to come true.
My life was not so happy before I met you.
This is just for you. You love them so,
these white flowers.
 
I love you so much I could cry,
every sigh feels like the first time.
Instead of deceitful words,
here is a cloud of roses.
I shall make you a bed
of white roses petals.
I love you up to tears,
I love you madly.
 
The delicacy of your pale skin,
the beauty of your divine hair,
I worship you, nothing is more precious,
and for us it is just the beginning.
I love you so much I could cry.
 
I love you so much I could cry.
every sigh feels like the first time.
Instead of deceitful words,
here is a cloud of roses.
I shall make you a bed
of white roses petals.
I love you up to tears,
I love you madly.
 
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