A keresés eredménye oldal 11

Step-siblings

I was talking talking to...
I was talking talking to...
I was talking talking to...
I was talking talking to...
 
If my wish came true, came true
We’d become immortal and be together forever
 
The red outsider becomes family
And survives together with fate
 
The oldest son is a jack of all trades rather than a master of none
The second son is a glutton, let’s oddly eat skewers
The third son’s movements are strange
I wonder what’s the matter, I wonder what’s the matter!
 
When will
Goodbye come?
Don’t die, stay
We’re step-siblings forever
 
Let’s laugh holding our bellies
(Together forever)
Let’s laugh holding our bellies
(Even if we become zombies)
Let’s laugh holding our bellies
(Until they get twisted)
Let’s laugh holding our bellies
(Tomorrow as well, and the next year too)
 
Let’s laugh holding our bellies
(Together forever)
Let’s laugh holding our bellies
(Tomorrow as well, and the next world too)
 

A Happy Prophetic Magical Song

Like a pole of clouds, go thus before the herd
understand all, know, don't say a single word
like a pole of smoke disappear inside the room1
sometime inside you will tell you to continue
on your path.
 
Like the Milky Way that crosses the heavens
you go strait, don't pay attention to the stars
that shine in order to blind the eyes
sometime inside you will tell you to continue
on the path.
 
Ho, go strait,
go alone,
don't fear,
oho oho oh,
don't get angry,
go innocently,
go alone.
 
Like a wild goose that crosses the evening sky
he flies at the front of the formation2, not discouraged by the distance
and the instinct show and prophesies the path for him
sometime inside you will tell you to continue
on your path.
 
Like Bridget Bardot that figured out the business3
left behind her the good and the bad
and the matters she observes from the balcony
sometime inside you will tell you
stop.
 
Without planning let yourself to go
all the calculations will end at last
like the tree that rises to life from (the seeds) of Fall
sometime inside you will tell you
to continue!
 

• 1. apartment in older idiomatic usage
• 2. lit: arrow
• 3. need additional explanatory reference, perhaps referring to her abrupt exit from the entertainment business in 1973 - comment below please if you know

My little

In 1977 I was just 20 years old
And it broke my heart, little one
I chose you
Even when they called you bastard
Because all I saw was you, little one
 
And I stood
Far away on the edge
On my hand
Was it just you, no man, no ring
And when my heart caught fire
Fear came too.
There was only me and my little one.
The others met for a drink
I went to your house, my child.
The night so long
Only you and me, my little one
 
Got your own head very quickly
The Mireille Mathieu haircut did suit you
At some point I couldn't get to you, little one
But I stayed at your door
I listened to you for hours
How you sang your own songs, little one
 
At night
When you slept
I was awake
There was only you, no man, no ring
And when my heart caught fire
Fear came too.
There was only me and my little one.
The others met for a drink
I went to your house, my child.
The night so long
Only you and me, my little one
 
If I have something to regret
Then only that I don't tell you enough
How proud I am of you, my little one
Apparently I have been taken long ago
And you the love of my life
And in the end what I found was you, my little one
 
But sometimes at night
I lay awake
And I wish I could go back in time
There was only you, no man, no ring
And when my heart caught fire
Fear came too.
There was only me and my little one.
The others met for a drink
I went to your house, my child
The night so long
Only you and me, my little one
 
There was only you, no man, no ring
 

Beautiful, darkness

My feelings keep piling up, piling up
If only confessing them was that easy
I would have gotten rid of this anxiety a long time ago
 
My frail heart is derelict and being restricted
It's being crushed
Like a dark fate
This is too painful so I'll go home
 
Ahh, I happened to pass by the nurse's office
And what I saw
Was your faint and fleeting smile
 
Sparkling emotions, trembling feelings
Everything about you is captivating me
And becoming the warmth inside my chest
Even my heart and my fingertips
I have no control over them
Just what happened to me...
 
It's like your presence
Is lighting up my dark, dark life
Please become what I live for, this is too painful
 
Hey, hey, who is that?
How dare they cling to you
They are like hideous moths attracted to light
 
Ahh, please have eyes only for me
I'm spitting venom and revealing my true nature
Not this again, I hate when it happens
 
My voice can't reach you, nor can my feelings
My heart has been captured, it's now completely murky
Even my thoughts are a mess
And now my sharp, dark feelings
Are holding a blade against my own neck
Just what happened to me...
 
I will graduate soon
So if I leave a glass slipper behind
Will you come for me?
 
Sparkling emotions, trembling feelings
Everything about you is captivating me
And becoming the beats inside my heart
A distant glimmer dyes my cheeks
There's nothing but your smile burned into my memory
Just what happened to me...
 
I let out my constricting true intentions
And want to try throwing them at your back
I bet I'm all out of time, I'm sure
Please notice me more
Notice me
 

By your life the ones with red lips (but talking to male not female)

(swear) By your life the ones with red lips
who pulled my heart with thick ties
turn to me and remember my love
and guard it as law and religions.
 

My Dearest

I really want to know how you’re doing recently
Hearing about it from other people, how about you tell me sometime
After that period of regret
Please be assured, I’ve gotten stronger
No matter how desolate the world is
There’s no reason to fear loneliness as long as I've loved you
 
My dearest one, how have you been?
Those days without me, how have you been since?
Still, my dear, I have not let you down
Let me kiss you for a while, just like what we would used to do
 
I think you must like the fact that
I've learned to be more cheerful lately
Now that I think of your face
What other mistakes are there
That can’t be forgiven?
No matter how desolate the world is
There’s no reason to fear loneliness as long as I've loved you
My dearest one, how have you been?
Those days without me, how have you been since?
Still, my dear, I have not let you down
Let me kiss you for a while, just like what friends would do
 
Although time in the world after leaving you
Seems longer than the times we’ve been together
We can always make it up
Because the empty times in between
If that can still be shared
It’s also romantic…
Although this relationship is no longer the same
How is it possible to terminate our care for each other completely?
 
My dearest one, how have you been?
Those days without me, how have you been since?
Still, my dear, I have not let you down
Let me kiss you for a while, like what a family member would do
 
My dearest one, how have you been?
Days without me, how are you since we parted?
Still, my dear, I have not let you down
Let me kiss you for a while, just like what we would used to do
 

You Were a Mistake

You played within my soul
You were my heaven and my earth
Like a child running on the shore
I was looking for a simple place and some comfort
 
It's over, it's over
Words breaking on the paper
Like a child against the world
I was looking for another direction
 
And you
You were a mistake
You played with my borders of living and dying
I remained a druggie of loneliness
Since you left, I've lost my identity
All the tears have blended in with the humidity
How I lost you so easily
 
We've been through a crazy journey
Such as that time itself can't burn away
Like a child I was waiting for the end
The child within me is gone, he went out for a chase
 
It's over, it's over
Going back to the same spot
Like a child filled with innocence
I was looking for another direction
 
And you
You were a mistake
You played with my borders of living and dying
I remained a druggie of loneliness
Since you left, I've lost my identity
All the tears have blended in with the humidity
How I lost you so easily
 
And you
You were a mistake
You played with my borders of living and dying
In the nights I recovered from the loneliness
Since you left, I've lost my identity
All the tears have blended in with the humidity
How I lost you so easily
 

The thought at the Spring

It’s March, when the Spring winds are blowing.
The fallen blossoms’re flying to the every place.
With the Oriental harp, I’m playing the love song
But you won’t return from the bustling city place.
 

A Branch of Plum Blossom

Versions: #1
True love is like broad grassland
Winds and rains times and times cannot separate it
Finally clouds will disperse, and sun shows up
Glowing sunbeams shine on you and me
True love is like plum blossoms blooming
Code ice and snow cannot cover it up
Just on the coldest branch it blooms
Watching spring comes to you and me
 
Snowflakes flying / north winds blowing
Heaven and earth are blur and broad
A branch of plum blossoms in winter / stands proudly in the snow
Just to diffuse fragrance for her
Love whom I love / with no grievance and regret
This feeling for long is present in my heart
 

5000 miles away from Home

5000 Miles away from Home
 
Already when I was a boy
I knew for myself
Just to stay in one place, I couldn't take
I read books, day and night
And then I thought
I would be 5000 miles away from home
 
Oh, if it would be just today
Somewhere, infenitly away
Could, I be 5000 miles far away from home
 
And when I was sixteen
I went on my first big trip
Everywhere the world looked wonderful
And at once I found
This life is ideal
I was 5000 miles away from home
 
Now I have seen so much
Where could I even go now?
I am lonely and alone, day by day
Because with every, step and tread
Pulls me the homesickness
I am 5000 miles away from home
 
And I wish for, myself that today I would
not be so far, so infinitely far away
Wouldn't be 5000 miles away from home
Wouldn't be 5000 miles away from home
Wouldn't be 5000 miles away from home
 

Hearest Thou

Hearest thou, the wind is foreign and autumnal
A guest marcheth unto thy pale home
Whether thou be standing by thy window, or weaving, or spinning,
Shut off thy light and lie down.
 
Thou hast fallen asleep, and I shall enter and sit.
Upon the floor I shall sit
To gaze upon thee.
Silent and foreign in thy peaceful room
As thine shoes, I shall wait for thee.
 
Then thou shall arise within the glow of enemies,
For my God hath passed in thy slumber
Then thou shall arise,
And two unpleasant dreams
Shall slowly come near,
Grab hold of thee
And lead thee unto me
Unto me
Unto me.
 

Superstition

What is that you're believing?
Whether is it devil or is it god?
Day by day, the priest with a crafty scheme
Makes old-fashioned and moldy charm
 
If you have countless images to the day after
You might think of yesterday as the falling sand
 
*1
Oh, The old era is gonna be end
Oh, The new dawn is at the beginning
 
Who is that you're trusting?
Whether is it scholar or is it friend?
The theory of big bang or evolution
They're out of area to solve your distress
 
If you feel that future has infinite possibilities
You might think the past as a flying ghost
 
(*1 repeat)
 
*2
Superstition-it's the frightening
Superstition-it's the illness
Superstition it's the graveyard
Superstition-it's the dark night
 
'Sweeter water is right here
I'll do the same sweetness tomorrow'
 
(*2 repeat)
 
'Sweeter water is right here
I'll keep you in sweet dreams'
 
(*2 repeat)
 
If you can make choice at each period of time
You can make numbers of world as much as you want
 
Oh, The old era is gonna be end
Oh, The dark light is gonna fade
Oh, The old era is gonna be end
Oh, The new dawn is at the beginning
 

One day, I thought the world was beautiful.

One day, I thought the world was rotting.
 
Details¹, pricking with a needle, in chaos, conforming, so that we don't slip²
Details, this is my song
Details, this is your song
Details, this is our song
 
The night is...
We can't see the starry sky, so let's go out into the night
I wonder, why is this worn out heart hurting?
 
SANE,MAD,SANE,MAD
You will kill God, and become him?
 
With a lot of thinking my conclusion is this.
 
Lalalala
Lalalala
Lalalala
Lalalala
 
One day, I thought this world was beautiful.
 
We can't see the starry sky, so we'll look for stars, right?
Even if my worn out heart hurts, it's all right
The suffering won't disappear, so let's hold hands
Because when you are pained and suffering, you'll hear it again
 
Details, this is my song
Details, this is your song
 

To My Children

Now you are grown up, will soon leave our house,
your childhood passed rapidly by,
no, it's not yet over for dad and mom,
they still have some other desires.
 
Although, I'd have gladly held them back,
those moments, too precious to waste,
but fugacity of time nobody can mold,
according to their own petty taste.
 
So, what can I hand you as a gift on your way,
that you'll master now on your own?
My hope, that on each and every day
my love will not leave you alone.
 
I've never been a man of high moral standards.
When are children good, when bad?
Children are innocent, keep them clear
from oppression and moral fear.
 
You are a miracle, like everyone,
born out of absolute beauty.
Our world would be more peaceful indeed,
if this knowledge became worldwide duty.
 
I've never been perfect, you know me,
failure is my second name.
In the best case we used to be amused,
when perfect parents came up.
 
What have I done wrong, what was right?
Yes, you were only lent to me.
I will not beat around the bush, 1
education was never important to me.
 
Education what for? For ambition, for greed?
For being boss in a well payed position?
You know my heart is wide open
for dreamers and losers in any case.
 
There's only one single big request that I have,
please listen to me and conform:
No matter what they promise you, my child,
never wear a uniform!
 
It will not be easy, the times they are hard,
they will throw spanners in your works. 2
I hope that in any hardship and pain
my unconditional love will help.
 
It is all I have and all I can give,
no bulging bank accounts, but
we keep those moments of beauty when
together we happily basked.
 
Don't worry about your father, 'cause now
it's time for your very own life.
I am grateful to you, because from you I learned,
to give without expectation.
 

• 1. Idiom: Um den heißen Brei herumreden
• 2. Idiom: Sand ins Getriebe streuen

My narrow limits

My own narrow limits, my own short sightness
I bring before you.
Change it into wideness, have mercy, my Lord.
Change it into wideness, have mercy, my Lord.
 
My whole helplessness, what bends and criples me
I bring before you.
Change it into strength, have mercy, my Lord.
Change it into strength, have mercy, my Lord.
 
My lost confidence, my timorousness
I bring before you.
Change it into warmth, have mercy, my Lord.
Change it into warmth, have mercy, my Lord.
 
My long for security
I bring before you.
Change it into home, have mercy, my Lord.
Change it into home, have mercy, my Lord.
 

My best friend

Not always everything turns out as you'd like
Life always plays it's own game
But I had a friend
that always stood faithfully by my side
Have no idea why he had to die
Why he had to leave me, a question I do not ask
Only thing left,
tears on my cheek.
 
And the last goodbye on your grave,
from me, your friend and brother.
The memory remains.
Last goodbye on your grave,
from me, your friend and brother,
a look in the past is what remains.
 
Together, we went through thin and thick,
you faithfully at my side,
fighting wind and storms,
no path too long in your eyes.
If I had a bad streak, you brought me luck,
you went with me together to hell and back.
You were a part of me.
 
And the last goodbye on your grave,
from me, your friend and brother.
The memory remains.
Last goodbye on your grave,
from me, your friend and brother,
a look in the past is what remains.
 
Time heals the wounds,
and I forget about my pain,
but you're never going to disappear from my heart,
never disappear from my heart.
You were my best friend,
and still I'll hurt often at your grave.
But we'll see each other again one day,
and together walk along the new paths.
 
And the last goodbye on your grave,
from me, your friend and brother.
The memory remains.
Last goodbye on your grave,
from me, your friend and brother,
a look in the past is what remains.
 

The Couple

The carousel goes round and round
 
And I'm on it
Again and again
My, the world is fast
And I see it
Only blurred anymore.
Everything is such a rush
Nobody has leisure.
 
Just in the center, a couple is turning slowly.
 
Like in a Viennese waltz
All by themselves, so wonderful.
 
How everything is hurried,
 
A thousand coffees,
Amidst love and anger.
And in the evening, ears blow off.
Everything is such a rush
Nobody has leisure.
 
Just in the center, a couple is turning slowly.
 
Like in a Viennese waltz
All by themselves, so wonderful.
 
Race, race [I'm telling you,] year,
 
Race (you) month.
Race (you) week, away.
Before you lies what was,
Behind you that
Which you missed out on.
Everything is such a rush
Nobody has leisure.
 
Race, race (you) year
 
And oneself
Racing behind it [in vain].
Entirely greedy and soft,
And oneself
Merely drifts here and there.
Everything is such a rush
Nobody has leisure.
 
Only in the center, a couple is turning slowly.
 
Like in a Viennese waltz
All by themselves, so wonderful.
 

A Shop With Delicious Tea

Take me to the world of dreams. I'll follow your voice
The two of us crossing the river, the current is so fast
 
After I grab your arm
I will surely plead
Climb the hill, the grassy plain
Let your body rest, Let your body rest
The wind is gentle
 
Long ago I have decided that you're the only one
I've chosen a person that can forgive my heart
 
Take me to the world of dreams, I want to follow your voice
The two of us walking in town, someone is watching us
 
Tell me everything about you
For the sake of tomorrow, I want to get along
The shop around the corner's
Tea is delicious, tea is delicious
Let time stop
 
Don't leave me over just a fight
Don't leave me, even if tears flow
 
Long ago I have decided that you're the only one
I've chosen a person that can forgive my heart
 
Don't leave me over just a fight
Don't leave me, even if tears flow
 
Take me to the world of dreams, the two of us crossing the river
Take me to the world of dreams, the two of us walking in town
 

Transparent Answer

During all of these fleeting days
Just like any other day
Drifting alone in the same old seat as always
 
'Well then how about you?'
As if attempting again
The textbook without numbers said something meaningless
 
If you're asking about my results
Well, they could be better
Picking up a recycled paper with a perfect score 100
 
In the seat right next to me
There smiling sheepishly
Was you, the one with a low grade sitting on the desk
 
Outside the window, there's nothing I wish for
Because the answer immediately arrives
'Well then doesn't that just get boring?'
You always seemed like you had fun
 
Don't touch the heart that wants no more than to disappear
Today it can't be found anywhere on Earth
The alarm starts to ring in my head
The alone me says 'You're a cold and callous fool'
 
Even if a miracle answer appeared in front of me
I would know the answer in a heartbeat anyway
 
'If I died right now then
someone would just replace me'
Muttering things like that, isn't it just silly?
 
Those fleeting days continue to drift on by repeating
I feel uncomfortable whenever you're absent
 
Well anyway, the test will be returned tomorrow
I wonder if my score will ever change
 
During all of these fleeting days
Just like any other day
Something
May have already gone completely wrong
 
The colour of your hair
The smile on your face
Some people might not remember them anymore
 
'The seat by the window feels empty
What could it be that's reflected from there?'
I tried to get to know you
But in the end I didn't know a thing at all
 
If I could have just understood you even a little
These fleeting days could've continued forever
 
By the time you stopped the alarm ringing in my head
I couldn't see your tree in the forest of problems
 
She couldn't take having a heart that wanted to disappear
How many times was it hidden behind a smile?
Your smile that jumped from the roof and died from flying right out the window
 
I will never forget it, not even tomorrow
 

BWV 248 IV Cantata for New Year 4 Air S: Does your name instil, my saviour.

Air S
Does your name instil, my saviour, does it instil
Even the tiniest seed
Of that fierce terror?
No, you yourself say (No!)
Shall I now be afraid of death?
No, your sweet word is there!
Or should I rejoice?
Yes, you my saviour say it yourself (Yes !)
 

Destiny

A voice overflowing from the heart
Sings a melody, looking to the future
Your voice pouring out
Matched mine and echoed under the ultramarine sky
 
Not a dream, not a dream, traces of tears
Not a lie, not a lie, mud-covered smiles
Not a dream, not a dream, I want to put my arm around you and shout
Send out our thoughts
 
Doesn’t have to be a miracle
Doesn’t have to be beautiful
I have my reason for living and it shines bright
This battery won’t die
As long as my soul’s alive
I’m gonna give my all for this thing called destiny
 
Silence keeps playing in these earphones
In my weakness, my future goes further out of reach
There were nights when I hated
Songs that say “It’s gonna be alright” or “Keep fighting”
 
Not a dream, not a dream, all those days with regret
Won’t forget, won’t forget, the nail marks on the palm of my hand
Not a waste, not a waste
Everything’s worth it
Just a little bit more
 
My dreams are burning and I’m drenched in sweat
I cower at the weight of expectations, still
Our player numbers are not the ones on our backs
But the answers in our eyes
Overlapping, shining forever
 
Doubt springs from worry
Takes root and branches in all of us
But are we going to lose to that?
Right now it’s about giving our all
To that thing called destiny
 
C’mon now, it doesn’t have to be a miracle
Doesn’t have to be beautiful
I have my reason for living and it shines bright
This battery won’t die
As long as my soul’s alive
I’m gonna give my all for this thing called destiny
 
That thing called destiny
I’ll hold it up and face it
 

BWV 248 Karácsonyi Oratórium II, 10: Aludj, drágám, élvezd a nyugalmat.

Ária A
Aludj, drágám, élvezd a nyugalmat,
egykor majd felébredsz mindnyájunk üdvére.
Most légy boldog
anyád kebelén
szívünk örömére.
 

A girl like you

A Girl Like You
 
Now in the holy night - I stand alone and I
think and I ask you to have for me such a valuable angel
I glance at heaven - G-d gave me a joyous event
The dear Manager in Heaven is only destined for me
 
My girl is a girl full of grace
There has never been prettier than my girl
I look in your two eyes - they are exactly like two twinkling stars
It brings me peace [yir] each of mine on [yir] face there is the beauty only
 
Oy that I could [sich] to me right now
That I was able to rule
Such grace I take possession of, everyone is here for me
With luck I want to write in the kesuba (marital contract) and
then you will always remain
My girl dear girl will be mine at the right time
 

BWV 248 Christmas Oratorio II, 10: Sleep, my dearest, enjoy your rest.

Air A
Sleep, my dearest, enjoy your rest.
wake after this so that all may thrive!
Comfort the breast,
feel the pleasure
with which we make glad our hearts!
 

I see the God in you

Versions: #1
You didn't ask anything, never ask for anything in return. Whatever you gave, that is from your heart. You never weight anything and gave me by smiling. You are sun and shadow. You are mine and I don't know anything but just you and I see the God in you. I can't help myself sweetheart to see the heaven in you. My head bow down in front of you because I can see the God in you.
God has created a couple. (that's us)
 

Whatever you left half, I hate whatever it has left half

Whatever you left half, I hate whatever it has left half
I count my mistakes....suddenly in front of space
Strange nights, hours that you aren't here
And I am, I am still here ...
The 'goodbye' that I always loathed to say,
I don't want us to dance damn
I learned to forgive...
But not to forget as well
 
Always I was laughing at because I was wearing my clothes inside-out
I never cared for the expensive clothes, my love
But the people are clothes as well
They have the 'inside' and the 'out' side
But I choose to have my etiquette in front of me. When they look at me in the eyes
 
How much idiots we are?
Every time we make dreams with an obvious ending
We fall in love with the wrong person over and over
Since the fairytale was perfect like the old times
 
I learned to pretend that it doesn't matter to me
Since in reality it was killing me with coyness
I lend you the tomorrow and you were looking at yesterday
I lost me, not you, what are saying?
 
Love at first sight doesn't exist baby
You got lost in front of me, everything is a matter of time
Here that they killed in front of me whatever I loved
Here that people sell you for few gusta
 
All of you are giving love, your love is fucking
I doesn't fuck,
I stay the only asshole that I insist
Better the frustrate from the usual...
 
Whatever you left half, I hate whatever it has left half
I count my mistakes....suddenly in front of space
Strange nights, hours that you aren't here
And I am, I am still here ...
 
Right moments in wrong time
Wrong people in an puplic room
Tell for storms
The greatest words hid in three dots ....
 
Cursed I go around in the time
Shook up I smell you everywhere , I mutter
Im hurt, damn I saw you and you remind me
The reason that I walk alone
 
Strangely, in the town of Athena I feel like a stranger and like a familiar at the same time
Between million faces
Im wandering in the dirty alleys like a ghost
I stop to take a breath a bit of oxygen with anathema
 
Still here I smell your smell, damn I'm fed up
To be addicted in something that I don't have to feel whole and I'm despairing
Saturday night together, Sunday morning what?
 
And if love uppermost the next day would have found us together
But again you are missing
Always something it will be missing, you know don't worry for me, im used to it
 
Outside it's raining, they say that it's sad weather
But I smile because with me the weather laughs
For her wish, I would be a falling star
But tonight I would like you to be beside me not behind me....
Really soever
 

Young boys, young girls

Young boys, young girls,
*Līgo, līgo
In **Jāņu night don’t sleep,
Līgo, līgo
In Jāņu night don’t sleep,
Līgo
 
Young boys, young girls,
Līgo, līgo
In Jāņu night don’t sleep,
Līgo, līgo
In Jāņu night don’t sleep,
Līgo
 
Young boys, young girls,
Līgo, līgo
In Jāņu night don’t sleep,
Līgo, līgo
In Jāņu night don’t sleep,
Līgo
 
Then from morning you’ll see
Līgo, līgo
How sunny is decorating.
Līgo, līgo
How sunny is decorating.
Līgo
 
Then from morning you’ll see
Līgo, līgo
How sunny is decorating.
Līgo, līgo
How sunny is decorating.
Līgo
 
Līgo, līgo.
 

The woman who defeated me

I thought my way was better, with an unloved soul
I flew crazily and fell without dreams, until you came
I wanted to teach you how to leave without caring
I wanted to forget your childish face, but it's as if I can't get rid of it
 
I can't fight with you, love
Your heat breaks my weapons
And my mind says no
But my soul already knows that you
 
You are the woman who defeated me
Sweet compromise of the soul
I promise to love you in my dreams now, too
You are the woman who defeated me
 
I wanted to let you leave me, on wandering paths
And I sought to remain the way I was, with unfulfilled thoughts
I fought against myself, I thought that you're just a lie
I didn't want to want you until you brought my heart to the moon
 
I can't fight with you, love
Your heat breaks my weapons
And my mind says no
But my soul already knows that you
 
You are the woman who defeated me
Sweet compromise of the soul
I promise to love you in my dreams now, too
You are the woman who defeated me
 
Too much love, it'll surely kill you, boy
The voice within me told me, keep your heart closed off
I don't know how you knew to put a piece of heaven inside of me
You, without weapons, disarmed the heart of a man
 

Naniwa sisters

On a back street of our dear Naniwa
The lights of two sisters are on
The floating world hill is dark but
It's useless to show tears of worry
Surely happy, surely happy
Surely happy we want to be us two
 
Sister, Do you like that man?
What are you saying? I like him. Don't you?
I do. But anyhow
I want my sister to be happy
Don't be a fool, girl
Your happiness will be your sister's to
When you grab that man strong
 
It's a dream that come to visit us
Our parents who remained in their hometown
Welcome, welcome mr guest
We look like an odd but happy couple of the alley
Surely happy, surely happy
Surely happy we want to be us two
 
On windy days we stand together
On rainy days we're under one umbrella
Come spring, come spring soon
Let's pray to the Sumiyoshi gods
Surely happy, surely happy
Surely happy we want to be us two
 

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20,000 Leagues

You soared up,
To look far down.
Penetrating in a dive.
In Here with you, in the Now gone.
 
You have sunk so deep,
And now you know the reason.
You have not drowned yet
Free the scream from your mouth!
 
Luminous beings, to stem the blackness,
strive for supremacy and consciousness.
Souls and lights glitter on the wave crests,
Animated by the tidal current and pure lust.
 
Luminous beings, hovering silently in the distance,
Unexplored as ever,
Titan hearts beat between dwarf stars.
Look how they dance on the lake!
It has been too long since you were with them.
You traveled twenty thousand leagues under the sea.
 
You've come this far,
you're too glad to get lost.
Everything remains blurry -
Often hoping to look to the future!
 
Luminous beings, to stem the blackness,
strive for supremacy and consciousness.
Souls and lights glitter on the wave crests,
Animated by the tidal current and pure lust.
 
Luminous beings, hovering silently in the distance,
Unexplored as ever,
Titan hearts beat between dwarf stars.
Look how they dance on the lake!
It has been too long since you were with them.
You traveled twenty thousand leagues under the sea.
 
Decades seem like seconds,
The next dive will surely be the longest.
Have you invented yourself today?
Come into the depths, we drown our fears!
 
Luminous beings, hovering silently in the distance,
Unexplored as ever,
Titan hearts beat between dwarf stars.
Look how they dance on the lake!
It has been too long since you were with them.
You traveled twenty thousand leagues,
Twenty thousand leagues,
Twenty thousand leagues
Under the sea.
 

Hear my lullaby

Sleep, my sweet Kovu,
Dream, my little love!
One day you'll become big and strong
And be a king.
 
They pursue, they condemn,
And finally you are banished.
If I only think of Simba's name,
I get a little tense.
 
But I dream of pretty things,
Then I'm not stressed anymore.
In doing so, I plan my revenge,
After that, I sleep soundly.
 
I hear Simba's death cry.
I kill the daughter at the same time.
The wife: she wails, she cries, she implores.
Hear my lullaby!
 
If only I could forgive them,
I would have no distress today
But that's life,
And I would prefer them dead
 
And a lion, strong and courageous
Kills Simba for you.
The carnage will be very bloody.
Yes, that would be something for me!
 
Whether fierce battle, battlecries,
Whether groaning, moaning, torturing:
Yes, for that have I appetite.
Hear my lullaby!
 
Scar is dead, but Zira is still here.
She will not leave you alone,
Before you learn to kill the enemy
And love to be mean.
 
Sleep now, you termite,
I mean: my little prince!
One day you'll become big and strong
And be a king.
 
At Kovu's powerful roar
Will all voices be silent.
We want revenge,
It is close.
 
Do you not hear the masses?
Kovu hip hurray!
 
How they hate Simba!
So that my Kovu wins
And royal blood will flows!
Hear my lullaby!
 

Stories to lull adults to sleep

Mangueira, clean the dust from the basements
Oh, clear the way for the heroes of the shanties
From the brazilwood that makes a country of Lecis1, Jamelões2
They're green and pink3, the crowds
 
Mangueira, clean the dust from the basements
Oh, clear the way for the heroes of the shanties
From the brazilwood that makes a country of Lecis, Jamelões
They're green and pink, the crowds
 
Brazil, my friend4
Let me tell you
The story that history doesn't tell
The flip side of the same place
The struggle we find ourselves in
 
Brazil, my baby
Mangueira has arrived
With verses that the books have erased
Since 15005 there has been more invasion than exploration
There's inky blood, bruising
Behind the venerated heroes
Women, Tamoios6, Mulattos
I want a country that is not in the picture frame
 
Brazil, your name is Dandara7
And your face is Kiriri8
It didn't come from the sky
Nor from the hands of Isabel9
Liberty is a dragon of the waters of Aracati10
 
Hail the caboclos de julho11
Who were steel in the years of iron12
Brazil, it's time
To hear the Marias13, Mahins14, Marielles15, Malês16
 

• 1. Leci Brandão, MPB singer
• 2. Jamelão, singer for Mangueira from 1949 to 2006
• 3. colors of the Mangueira school
• 4. 'nego' is a term of familiarity or endearment derived from 'negro' meaning black
• 5. Year that Europeans first arrived in Brazil
• 6. a Tupi people that were exterminated
• 7. Dandara, wife of Zumbi dos Palmares who fought against slavery
• 8. Confederation of the Cariris, an indigenous resistance movement in the late 17th century
• 9. Princess Isabel, who signed the abolition of slavery into law
• 10. Chico da Matilde, prominent abolitionist of the Northeast
• 11. mixed indigenous-white people who were prominent in the Independence of Bahia
• 12. reference to those who were tortured under the military dictatorship
• 13. Maria Filipa de Oliveira, figure in the Independence of Bahia
• 14. Luísa Mahin, mother of the abolitionist Luís Gama
• 15. Marielle Franco, politician executed for speaking out against police brutality
• 16. Muslim Africans who led the most important revolt in Bahia