Saturday, November 8, 2014

A Felicidade (Happiness)

Lyrical translation of original Portuguese lyric (partial):

Our sorrow never dies
Our joy, so soon it flies.
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Don’t you know that happiness is just a dewdrop on the petal of a rose?
Brilliant and tranquil, it shimmers and it sways
Before it falls just like a tear of love

Yes, I know the joy of the poor girl resembles
The grand illusion of carnival.
All year she keeps working from Sunday to Sunday
For just one moment of dreaming
Just to make a fantasy
A pirate or a king or flower maiden
But all the magic tumbles down on Wednesday.

Jobim / de Morães (trans, Cartwright)

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