Monday, July 31, 2006

Dá a surpresa de ser

Fernando Pessoa

Dá a surpresa de ser.
É alta, de um louro escuro,
faz bem só pensar em ver
seu corpo meio maduro.

Seus seios altos parecem
(se ela estivesse deitada)
dois montinhos que amanhecem
sem ter que haver madrugada.

E a mão do seu braço branco
assenta em palmo espalhado
sobre a saliência do flanco
do seu relevo tapado.

Apetece como um barco.
Tem qualquer coisa de gnomo.
Meu Deus, quando é que eu embarco?
Ò fome, quando é que eu como?

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Sunday, July 30, 2006

The dogs of war

Dogs of war and men of hate
With no cause, we don’t discriminate
Discovery is to be disowned
Our currency is flesh and bone
Hell opened up and put on sale
Gather ’round and haggle
For hard cash, we will lie and deceive
Even our masters don’t know the web we weave

One world, it’s a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world … One world

Invisible transfers, long distance calls,
Hollow laughter in marble halls
Steps have been taken, a silent uproar
Has unleashed the dogs of war
You can’t stop what has begun
Signed, sealed, they deliver oblivion
We all have a dark side, to say the least
And dealing in death is the nature of the beast

One world, it’s a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world … One world

The dogs of war don’t negotiate
The dogs of war won’t capitulate,
They will take and you will give,
And you must die so that they may live
You can knock at any door,
But wherever you go, you know they’ve been there before
Well winners can lose and things can get strained
But whatever you change, you know the dogs remain.

One world, it’s a battleground
One world, and we will smash it down
One world … One world

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Saturday, July 29, 2006

Guantanamera

Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crecen las palmas
Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crecen las palmas
Y antes de morirme quiero
Echar mis versos del alma

Guantanamera
Guajira Guantanamera
Guantanamera
Guajira Guantanamera

Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmin encendido
Mi verso es de un verde claro
Y de un carmin encendido
Mi verso es un ciervo herido
Que busca en el monte amparo

I am a truthful man from this land of palm trees
Before dying I want to share these poems of my soul
My verses are light green
But they are also flaming red

(the next verse says,)
I cultivate a rose in June and in January
For the sincere friend who gives me his hand
And for the cruel one who would tear out this
heart with which I live
I do not cultivate thistles nor nettles
I cultivate a white rose

Cultivo la rosa blanca
En junio como en enero
Qultivo la rosa blanca
En junio como en enero
Para el amigo sincero
Que me da su mano franca

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Friday, July 28, 2006

Lady Jane

by N/A

My sweet Lady Jane
When I see you again
Your servant am I
And will humbly remain

Just heed this plea my love
On bended knees my love
I pledge myself to Lady Jane

My dear Lady Anne
I’ve done what I can
I must take my leave
For promised I am
This play is run my love
Your time has come my love
I’ve pledged my troth to Lady Jane

Oh my sweet Marie
I wait at your ease
The sands have run out
For your lady and me

Wedlock is nigh my love
Her station’s right my love
Life is secure with Lady Jane

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Thursday, July 27, 2006

Sie liebt dich

by N/A

Sie liebt dich
Sie liebt dich
Sie liebt dich
Du glaubst sie liebt nur mich?
Gestern hab’ ich sie gesehen.
Sie denkt ja nur an dich,
Und du solltest zu ihr gehen.
Oh, ja sie liebt dich.
Schöner kann es gar nicht sein.
Ja, sie liebt dich,
Und da solltest du dich freu’n.
Du hast ihr weh getan,
Sie wusste nicht warum.
Du warst nicht schuld daran,
Und drehtest dich nicht um.
Oh, ja sie liebt dich. . . .
Sie liebt dich
Sie liebt dich
Denn mit dir allein kann sie nur glücklich sein.
Du musst jetzt zu ihr gehen,
Entschuldigst dich bei ihr.
Ja, das wid sie verstehen,
Und dann verzeiht sie dir.
Sie liebt dich
Sie liebt dich
Denn mit dir allein kann sie nur glücklich sein.

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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

L’important c’est la rose

by Louis Amade

Toi qui marches dans le vent
Seul dans la trop grande ville
Avec le cafard tranquille du passant
Toi qu’elle a laissé tomber
Pour courir vers d’autres lunes
Pour courir d’autres fortunes,
L’important…

REFRAIN:
L’important c’est la rose
L’important c’est la rose
L’important c’est la rose
Crois-moi

Toi qui cherches quelque argent
Pour te boucler la semaine
Dans la ville tu promènes ton ballant
Cascadeur, soleil couchant
Tu passes devant les banques
Si tu n’es que saltimbanque,
L’important…

REFRAIN

Toi, petit, que tes parents
Ont laissé seul sur la terre
Petit oiseau sans lumière, sans printemps
Dans ta veste de drap blanc
Il fait froid comme en Bohême
T’as le coeur comme en carême,
Et pourtant…

REFRAIN

Toi pour qui, donnant-donnant,
J’ai chanté ces quelques lignes
Comme pour te faire un signe en passant
Dis à ton tour maintenant
Que la vie n’a d’importance
Que par une fleur qui danse
Sur le temps…

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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Notte’ e Piscatore

by M. Morante

Notte sencere
E notte mmiezo ’o mare
Mille feneste
scurano luntano
Tu si una sole ancora
Ammore mio ’nce sta
Un uocchio m’accumpagna
Me lassa tutt’ ’e ssere cu nu vasa
E me saluta ca lle tremma ’a voce
Notte che pace daie
Notta che faie sunna
Fa’ che s’addorme
E luna ssape quanto
voglio bbene
Ch’io moro pe’ aspettà
ch’o juorno vene
Io smania e cerco ’o sole
’O primmo sole pe’ turnà

Notte pe’mmare
Notte ’e piscatore
Pecchè m’astrigne
e nun me lasse ancora
Notte che pace daie
Notte famm’abbraccià
A chi m’aspettà
E luna ssape quanto
voglio bbene
Ch’io moro pe’ aspetta
ch’o juorno vene
Io smanio e cerco ’o sole
’O primmo sole pe’ turnà
E luna ssape quanto
voglio bbene
Ch’io moro pe’ aspetta
ch’o juorno vene
Io smanio e cerco ’o sole
’O primmo sole pe’ turnà

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Monday, July 24, 2006

Ne me quitte pas

by N/A

Ne me quitte pas
Il faut oublier
Tout peut s’oublier
Qui s’enfuit déjà
Oublier le temps
Des malentendus
Et le temps perdu
A savoir comment
Oublier ces heures
Qui tuaient parfois
A coups de pourquoi
Le coeur du bonheur

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Moi je t’offrirai
Des perles de pluie
Venues de pays
Ou il ne pleut pas
Je creuserai la terre
Jusqu’après ma mort
Pour couvrir ton corps
D’or et de lumière
Je ferai un domaine
Ou l’amour sera roi
Ou l’amour sera loi
Ou tu seras reine

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Je t’inventerai
Des mots insensés
Que tu comprendras
Je te parlerai
De ces amants-là
Qui ont vu deux fois
Leurs coeurs s’embraser
Je te raconterai
L’histoire de ce roi
Mort de n’avoir pas
Pu te rencontrer

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

On a vu souvent
Rejaillir le feu
De l’ancien volcan
Qu’on croyait trop vieux
Il est para”t-il
Des terres brulées
Donnant plus de blé
Qu’un meilleur avril
Et quand vient le soir
Pour qu’un ciel flamboie
Le rouge et le noir
Ne s’épousent-ils pas

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Ne me quitte pas
Je ne vais plus pleurer
Je ne vais plus parler
Je me cacherai là
A te regarder
Danser et sourire
Et à t’écouter
Chanter et puis rire
Laisse-moi devenir
L’ombre de ton ombre
L’ombre de ta main
L’ombre de ton chien

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

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Sunday, July 23, 2006

Money

by Roger Waters

Money, get away.
Get a good job with good pay and you’re okay.
Money, it’s a gas.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I’ll buy me a football team.

Money, get back.
I’m all right Jack keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it’s a hit.
Don’t give me that do goody good bullshit.
I’m in the high-fidelity first class travelling set
And I think I need a Lear jet.

Money, it’s a crime.
Share it fairly but don’t take a slice of my pie.
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today.
But if you ask for a raise it’s no surprise that they’re
giving none away.

“HuHuh! I was in the right!”
“Yes, absolutely in the right!”
“I certainly was in the right!”
“You was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for abruising!”
“Yeah!”
“Why does anyone do anything?”
“I don’t know, I was really drunk at the time!”
“I was just telling him, he couldn’t get into number 2. He was asking
why he wasn’t coming up on freely, after I was yelling and
screaming and telling him why he wasn’t coming up on freely.
It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out”

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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Me and Bobby McGee

by Fred Foster & Kris Kristofferson

 

Busted flat in Baton Rouge
Waitin’ for a train
When I’s feelin’ near as faded as my jeans
Bobby thumbed a diesel down
Just before it rained
He rode us all the way to New Orleans

I pulled my harpoon
Out of my dirty red bandana
I was playin’ soft while Bobby sang blues
Windshield wipers slappin’ time
I was holdin’ Bobby’s hand in mine
We sang every song that driver knew

Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose
Nothin’, I mean nothin’ hon’ if it ain’t free
Yeah, feelin’ good was easy Lord, when he sang the blues
Yeah, feelin’ good was good enough for me
Good enough for me and my Bobby Mcgee

From the Kentucky coal mines
To the California sun
Yeah, Bobby shared the secrets of my soul
Through all kinds of weather
Through everything that we done
Hey, Bobby baby kept me from the cold

One day up near Salinas, Lord
I let him slip away
He’s lookin’ for that home, and I hope he finds it
Well, I’d trade all o’ my tomorrows
For one single yesterday
To be holdin’ Bobby’s body next to mine

Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose
Nothin’, an’ that’s all that Bobby left me, la da
Oh, feelin’ good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues
Yeah, feelin’ good was good enough for me, oo oo
Good enough for me and my Bobby Mcgee

La da da
La da da da
La da da da da da da da
La da da da da da da da Bobby Mcgee, yeah
La da da da da da da
La da da da da
La da da da da da da Bobby Mcgee, yeah

La da La la da da la da da la da da
La da da da da da da da da
Hey now, Bobby, now, now Bobby Mcgee, yeah
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
Hey now Bobby now now Bobby Mcgee, yeah

Lord, I called him my lover
I called him my man
I said I called him my lover did the best I cam, c’mon
Hey now Bobby now
hey now Bobby Mcgee, yeah

wooooooo

la da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
Hey, hey, hey Bobby Mcgee, yeah

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