Letras e Poemas

3 comments on "10 Anos é muito tempo"

Corre Nina
A casa da praia
Foi tempo de uma flor sem tempo
De uma geração

Dia a dia a marcha da vida
Foi um amor sem palavras
Chuvas de verão
Diz-me onde é que tu moras
Diz-me o que fazes depois do adeus

Um encontro
Um cantar de amigos
Aplausos ou desprezo para o cantor
A cantiga é quando um homem quiser
E eu já sei que deve ser cantiga de amor

Hoje canto com quadras à solta
Deito a semente na terra lavrada

10 Anos é muito tempo
Muitos dias, muitas horas a cantar
10 Anos é muito tempo
Deste tempo inteiro que eu vos quero dar

Em Lisboa, menina e moça
Do meu canto de esperança nasceu a Nini
E agora, que eu canto e sei porquê
É por isso que gostava de vos ver aqui.

10 Anos é muito tempo
Muitos dias, muitas horas a cantar
10 Anos é muito tempo
Deste tempo inteiro que eu vos quero dar

Música e letra de Paulo de Carvalho

0 comments on "Tyrant Destroyed"

I know you spent some time
From the town to the city
Looking for a life to start
And when you were fifteen
I know what you said
“I’ll never let another black boy break my heart”

You waited a decade
For me to come find you
There’s never been a chance so rare
I was just stumbling out on a prosthetic love
And there had never been someone so real

This was love
And I was such a tyrant destroyer
As you sat sinking in my head
Love, and I was such a tyrant destroyer
As you sat sinking in my head

As if it wasn’t enough just to hear you speak
They had to give you lips like that
Like all of your sadness reduced to a color
Then painted upon you
How could I forget you
And who was I to think that on a Saturday night
That you would really bike home alone
And the way that I left you
Just hanging on SundaysTwin Shadow
And fair skin boy take you home

This was love
And I was such a tyrant destroyer
As you sat sinking in my head
Love, and I was such a tyrant destroyer
As you sat sinking in my head
Love, and I was such a tyrant destroyer
As you sat sinking in my head
Love, and I was such a tyrant destroyer
As you sat sinking in my head

letra de ‘Tyrant Destroyed’ dos Twin Shadow.

0 comments on "I can see clearly now"

I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It’s gonna be a bright, bright sunshinin’ day
It’s gonna be a bright, bright sunshinin’ day

Oh yes, I can make it now the pain is gone
All of the bad feelings have disappeared
Here is the rainbow I’ve been praying for
It’s gonna be a bright, bright sunshinin’ day

Look all around, there’s nothing but blue skies
Look straight ahead, there’s nothing but blue skies

I can see clearly now the rain is gone
I can see all obstacles in my way
Here’s the rainbow I’ve been praying for
It’s gonna be a bright, bright sunshinin’ day
It’s gonna be a bright, bright sunshinin’ day
Real, real, real, real bright, bright sunshinin’ day
Yeah, hey, it’s gonna be a bright, bright sunshinin’ day

Por Jimmy Cliff

0 comments on "The Song of Nothing"

And surely we will die without memory
coming to cold in the shadow of space
& if it isn’t too late
for the star to love you
spraying the sky w/ whispers
attuned to galaxies hungry for flame
And if the tongue of night sings
of Albino winos
till the morning light shafts
the doorway
then surely we will die tonight
faceless at the White
Gate
sharing the smoke
w/ ancient shapes in future garb
and you stand somewhere there
on the other side
feeding on the pain of dreamlessness
Wherefrom the misty morning of
white shadows
& the unresisting need to destroy?

Samael, Samael, I beg it may be forgiven
that they may be driven
out of the black into the white
Only let the dazzle remain
for gamblers to surprise,
the strategic diamond, the throne
of compressed bone
in the unshored dark
where only light can forgive
& your mind is singed
Embers of echoes in the vastness
disguise the yearning to burn
blind eyes
in arrogant displays of feeling
Running wild these beasts will feast
on the newborn kind
for surely we will die tonight
unless we learn to ignore
what the others live for
on the other side of morning
& the Skin of Nothing left by the same
summer
masks the faceless wanderer

O let it happen,
this weird to discover
the shape of Beauty in everything
extreme
for surely we will die tonight
whether we will or whether we
dream
O Samael, forgive the dreamer
forgive the dream

The Song of Nothing is your lullabye.

Poema de Ira Cohen

0 comments on "Pra ver a banda passar"

Estava à toa na vida
O meu amor me chamou
Pra ver a banda passar
Cantando coisas de amor
A minha gente sofrida
Despediu-se da dor
Pra ver a banda passar
Cantando coisas de amor
O homem sério que contava dinheiro parou
O faroleiro que contava vantagem parou
A namorada que contava as estrelas parou
Para ver, ouvir e dar passagem
A moça triste que vivia calada sorriu
A rosa triste que vivia fechada se abriu
E a meninada toda se assanhou
Pra ver a banda passar
Cantando coisas de amor
Estava à toa na vida
O meu amor me chamou
Pra ver a banda passar
Cantando coisas de amor
A minha gente sofrida
Despediu-se da dor
Pra ver a banda passar
Cantando coisas de amor

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0 comments on "Menina da Ria"

Uma moça
De lá do outro lado da poça
Numa aparição transatlântica
Me encheu de elegante alegria
( Ai, Portugal, ovos moles, Aveiro )
Menina da Ria
Menina da Ria
Menina da Ria
E uma preta
( Parece que eu estou na Bahia )
Tão Linda quanto ela, dizia
No seu português lusitano:
“Pode o Caetano tirar uma foto?”
Menina da Ria
Menina da Ria
Menina da Ria
Arte Nova, um prédio art-nouveau numa margem
Em frente à marina-miragem:
Os barcos na Ria. E depois
Uma taça sobre o pubis glabro, um estudo
Nenhum descalabro se tudo
É sexo sem sexo em nós dois
Menina da Ria
Menina da Ria
Menina da Ria

Música de Caetano Veloso

0 comments on "A horse is not a home"

Oh god I think I’m dying,
And our drinks were just poured,
Look outside someone’s waiting,
With a yellow horse

With a hole in my heart I was s’posed to ride,
In morning traffic
With a golden hand by your fortress side,
But without magic
Somebody, somebody, somebody tell me,
It wont be long
Cause a horse is not a home,
A horse is not a home

Uninvited to the play where language doesn’t hurt,
With nothing on my shirt
Sometimes I swim with you in a room that is ocean sized and clear
Not here where all I breath is smoke

With a hole in my heart I was s’posed to ride,
In morning traffic
With a golden hand by your fortress side,
But without magic
Somebody, somebody, somebody tell me,
It wont be long
Cause a horse is not a home,
A horse is not a home

With a hole in my heart I was s’posed to ride,
In morning traffic
With a golden hand by your fortress side,
But without magic
Somebody, somebody, somebody tell me,
It wont be long
Cause a horse is not a home,
A horse is not a home

Somebody, somebody, somebody tell me,
It wont be long
Cause a horse is not a home
A horse is not a home

Letra e música dos
Miike Snow

0 comments on "«poema»"

Faz-se luz pelo processo
de eliminação de sombras
Ora as sombras existem
as sombras têm exaustiva vida própria
não dum e doutro lado da luz mas do próprio seio dela
intensamente amantes loucamente amadas
e espalham pelo chão braços de luz cinzenta
que se introduzem pelo bico nos olhos do homem

Por outro lado a sombra dita a luz
não ilumina realmente os objectos
os objectos vivem às escuras
numa perpétua aurora surrealista
com a qual não podemos contactar
senão como amantes
de olhos fechados
e lâmpadas nos dedos e na boca

Mário Cesariny

0 comments on "Spooky"

Once in a while I need a friend
So why won’t you let me recover
It’s just a moment in your life
But sometimes we divide each other

Maybe we could find a time
Eliminate what’s on your mind
We’d do everything we could
Our presence in the neighbourhood

We could break every rule
Anytime we wanted to
Don’t be afraid to live this way
Lets defend the things we say

I want to be up in the air
I could be anywhere
Tell me I’m wrong, at least till tomorrow
Set me free and I will follow

Maybe we could find a time
To elevate what’s on your mind
Recreate for me and you
A master plan just for two

We could break every rule
Anytime we wanted to
Don’t be afraid to live this way
Lets defend the things we say
Elevate what’s on your mind
Eliminate what’s on your mind