Dos Gardenias

Dos gardenias para ti
con ellas quiero decir
te quiero, te adoro, mi vida.
Ponles toda tu atencion
porque son tu corazon y el mio.

Dos gardenias para ti
que tendran todo el calor de un beso
de esos que te di
y que jamas encontraras
en el calor de otro querer.

A tu lado viviran y te hablaran
como cuando estas conmigo
y hasta creeras
que te diran te quiero.

Pero si un atardecer
las gardenias de mi amor se mueren
es porque han adivinado
que tu amor se ha atraicionado
porque existe otro querer.

(Ibrahim Ferrer)

Dá-me Carinho

Dá-me um bocadinho de carinho só um bocadinho
que eu sem carinho quase que definho

sem um abraço nem um miminho
faz-me falta um bocadinho de carinho um bocadinho de carinho
dá-me um bocadinho de carinho só um bocadinho
que eu sem carinho quase que definho

só te peço um bocadinho de atenção
que tenhas em consideração
que eu considero que pra mim és um irmão

só te peço um bocadinho de leveza
que me abraces com certeza
que me toques ao de leve na fonte do coração

um bocadinho de carinho uma boa vibração
um bocadinho de carinho um sorriso pela mão

eu só quero um bocadinho uma primeira prestação
não me digas que não ...

(OVO)

Something In The Way

Underneath the bridge
The tarp has sprung a leak
And the animals I've trapped
Have all become my pets
And I'm living off of grass
And the drippings from the ceiling
It's okay to eat fish
'Cause they don't have any feelings

Something in the way, mmm
Something in the way, yeah, mmm

Underneath the bridge
The tarp has sprung a leak
And the animals I've trapped
Have all become my pets
And I'm living off of grass
And the drippings from the ceiling
It's okay to eat fish
'Cause they dont't have any feelings

Something in the way, mmm
Something in the way, yeah, mmm

(Nirvana)

Lilac Wine

I lost myself on a cool damp night
I Gave myself in that misty light
Was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under a lilac tree
I made wine from the lilac tree
Put my heart in its recipe
It makes me see what I want to see
and be what I want to be
?When? (But) I think more than I want to think
Do things I never should do
I drink much more than I ought to drink
Because (it) brings me back ?you? (in)...

Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love
Listen to me... I cannot see clearly
Isn't that she coming to me nearly here?
Lilac wine is sweet and heady where's my love?
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, where's my love?
Listen to me, why is everything so hazy?
Isn't that she, or am I just going crazy, dear?
Lilac Wine, I feel unready for my love,
feel unready for my love.

(Jeff Buckley)

Seven Fingered Friend

I met a little lady in the forest
Whose beauty you can't compare
And this little lady she told us
Take me if you wanna share
Share, share, share, share, share
Some happiness with me.
Share some happiness with me.

I met a little lady in the forest
Whose beauty you still can't compare
And this little lady she asked us
Oh won't you let me be your friend?
A friend friend friend friend friend
Who makes you feel good.
Friend who makes you feel good.

And ever since I can remember
She's always been around
You know she ain't no stranger
Oh cuz she helps you when you're feeling down
Down down down down down
Are you feeling down?
Down..Are you feeling down?
Then come with me to smell my beautiful tree

(Primitive Reason)

Common People

She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge,
she studied sculpture at Saint Martins College, that's where I caught her eye.

She told me that her dad was loaded,
I said "In that case I'll have a rum and coca-cola, she said "Fine"
and in 30 seconds time she said

"I want to live like common people,
I want to do whatever common people do,
I want to sleep with common people,
I want to sleep with common people like you".
Well what else could I do,
I said "I’ll see what I can do."

I took her to a supermarket,
I don’t know why but I had to start it somewhere,
so it started there.

I said 'Pretend you’ve got no money’,
but she just laughed and said "Oh you’re so funny",
I said "Yeah. Well I can’t see anyone else smiling in here."

Are you sure you want to live like common people,
you want to see whatever common people see,
you want to sleep with common people,
you want to sleep with common people like me.
But she didn’t understand, she just smiled and held my hand.

Rent a flat above a shop, cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some fags and play some pool,
pretend you never went to school.
But still you’ll never get it right
‘cos when you’re laid in bed at night
watching roaches climb the wall,
if you called your dad he could stop it all.

You’ll never live like common people,
you’ll never do whatever common people do,
you’ll never fail like common people,
you’ll never watch your life slide out of view, and dance and drink and screw,
because there’s nothing else to do.

Sing along with the common people,
sing along and it might just get you through.
Laugh along with the common people,
laugh along even though they’re laughing at you and the stupid things that you do,
because you think that poor is cool.

Like a dog lying in a corner
they will bite you and never warn you.
Look out they’ll tear your insides out.
'Cos everybody hates a tourist,
especially one who thinks it’s all such a laugh
and the chip stains and grease will come out in the bath.

You will never understand how it feels to live your life
with no meaning or control and with nowhere left to go.
You are amazed that they exist and they burn so bright
whilst you can only wonder why.

Rent a flat above a shop, cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some fags and play some pool, pretend you never went to school.
Still you’ll never get it right ‘cos when you’re laid in bed at night
watching roaches climb the wall, if you called your dad he could stop it all.

You’ll never live like common people,
you’ll never do what common people do,
you’ll never fail like common people,
you’ll never watch your life slide out of view, and dance and drink and screw
because there’s nothing else to do.

I want to live with common people like you, etc.

(Pulp)

11:33

Ain’t nobody’s love that can help me.
You could answer my questions and show your repentance,
now that I’ve wasted my time, now I know more is less…
I guess I’ll choose the logic way.
Next time you’ll have time to think why love is a hard thing to keep,
you’ll understand what I’m saying.
I want to know how you’re bringing me so down.
So try not regain my attention because it’s late for your useless redemption.
I’ve wasted all my life and now my heart is a mess.
I’ll choose the tragic way, and then,
I’ll have time to think why foolish love is such a hard think to keep…

(The Gift)

Sidewalking

Chilled to the bone and five miles to home
I'm messing in the dark and feeling all alone
I got ice in my fire got the heat in my wire
Inject a little heat I'm burning up the tyres

Sidewalking sidewalking sidewalking sidewalking

Talking like I'm on and I'm the only one
I'm making like I'm done and staring like a gun
And I gotta get a car and I gotta get a ride
Gotta get a car got jesus on my side

Sidewalking sidewalking sidewalking sidewalking

Messing in the dark and walking all alone
Alone in the streets I know just where I'm going

Sidewalking sidewalking

Chilled to the bone Chilled to the bone
Hot wired heat all the way home

(The Jesus And Mary Chain)

When The Sun Goes Down

Who's that girl there?
I wonder what went wrong
So that she had to roam the streets
She dunt do major credit cards
I doubt she does receipts
It's all not quite legitimate

And what a scummy man
Just give him half a chance
I bet he'll rob you if he can
Can see it in his eyes,
That he's got a driving ban
Amongst some other offences

And I've seen him with girls of the night
And he told Roxanne to put on her red light
It’s all infected but he'll be alright
Cause he's a scumbag, don't you know
I said he's a scumbag, don't you know!

Although you're trying not to listen
Overt your eyes and staring at the ground
She makes a subtle proposition
“Sorry love I'll have to turn you down”

He must be up to something
What are the chances sure it’s more than likely
I've got a feeling in my stomach
I start to wonder what his story might be

They said it changes when the sun goes down
Around here

Look here comes a Ford Mondeo
Isn't he Mister Inconspicuous?
And he don't have to say 'owt
She’s in the stance ready to get picked up

Bet she's delighted when she sees him
Pulling in and giving her the eye
Because she must be fucking freezing
Scantily clad beneath the clear night sky
It doesn't stop in the winter, no
Around here

They said it changes when the sun goes down
Over the river going out of town

What a scummy man
Just give him half a chance
I bet he'll rob you if he can
Can see it in his eyes that he's got a nasty plan
I hope you're not involved at all

(Arctic Monkeys)

Send A Prayer

To jah jah i say
Hear the words of his son lifting up his voice today
I know and i pray
Never will i go astray

Me send a prayer for my mama today
On my knees to the father i pray
Guidance protection every day
Me send a prayer for my mama today
On my knees to the father i pray
Guidance protection every day

Ina me ganga lee boots and ina me khaki suit
Yes i am a soldier and me seeking the truth
Trampeling the peagon cause man hafi revolute
Dem try fi kick me from the plane but jah is my parachute
I and i a stone that the builder refuse
Nuh go walk dem walk nuh step ina dem shoes
Nothin left fi win and there is nothin left fi lose
Down a babylon the whole a dem confuse

Me send a prayer for my mama today
On my knees to the father i pray
Guidance protection every day
Me send a prayer for my mama today
On my knees to the father i pray
Guidance protection every day

Fi live in dis ya world a one ting yuh shoulda know
What yuh gonna reap is exactly what yuh sew
Trodding mount zion only one way to go
Life it a no tee taa toe
So me nuh go sit down nuh go waste no time
Nuh go mek dem brainwash control my mind
As far as i man know man a king from ancient long time
Yuh can´t pop we off from the wine

One step come we hold a medi now
Two step baldhead and dready now
Three step high grade ina we heady now
It keep we steady now(repeat)

Oh yes now
High grade ina we heady now
Oh yes now
Even the baldhead and dready now

(Gentleman)

This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)

In the beginning, well, I didn’t know
As time passed on still didn’t know
I didn’t know

But this time, this time
I’m gonna try it my way
I’m gonna live life my way

This time, this time
I’m gonna try it my way
I’m gonna live life my way

Well, I didn’t know, just couldn’t see
The memories of past failures
Like a shadow haunting me

But this time, this time
I’m gonna try it my way
I’m gonna try it my way

Yeah this time, this time
I’m gonna try it my way
I’m gonna live life my way

There was a dream
I wanted to come true
But dreams
You know they need to be followed through

That’s why this time, this time
I’m gonna try it my way
I’m gonna try it my way

Yeah this time, Oh, this time
I’m gonna try it my way
I’m gonna live life my way

(DJ Shadow)

A Message To You, Rudy

Stop your messing around
Better think of your future
Time you straightened right out
Creating problems in town

Rudy, a message to you
Rudy, a message to you

Stop your fooling around
Time you straightened right out
Better think of your future
Else you'll wind up in jail

Rudy, a message to you
Rudy, a message to you

Stop your messing around
Better think of your future
Time you straightened right out
Creating problems in town

Rudy, a message to you
Rudy, a message to you
Rudy, a message to you
Rudy, a message to you

(The Specials)

All Of Your Days Will Be Blessed

With beady black eyes, the bluebird has died
It's feathers have dried, it couldn't survive
from the winter's grasp, nothing ever lasts
But you and I know, the seasons are slow
The rivers they froze, the wind always blows
down all our dreams, the engine's out of steam

All of your days will be blessed
So put on a smile and get dressed
Into the void we will fly away from here
All of your thoughts will be crowned
You'll be the toast of the town
Into the view of a million crystal spheres

Pitchfork in my foot, I tried the best I could
Dragging all this wood, with a rusty old fishhook
To feed the fire and make our blood flow higher
But I'm a stubborn man, the sun needs my command
I'm gonna make a stand, condemn this twisted land
I'm sure you'd agree, but I can't leave you see

All of your days will be blessed
So put on a smile and get dressed
Into the void we will fly away from here
All of your thoughts will be crowned
You'll be the toast of the town
Into the view of a million crystal spheres

But you and I know, the seasons are slow
The rivers they froze, the wind always blows
down all our dreams, the engine's out of steam

(Ed Harcourt)

Wallpaper

It's coming back so fast,
that I should fake this alone.
You kept me back so unthinking,
that I should fake this alone.

Because your breath is still in me
and you shape is still around
and this shallow light won't let me go

oh oh oh ohh..

'cause even if you break my heart
and even if you make things wrong,
you will always be the one,
you will always be my love.

Because your breath is still in me
and you shape is still around
and this shallow light won't let me go

oh oh oh ohh..

'cause even if you break my heart
and even if you make things wrong,
you will always be the one,
you will always be my love.

I will fight against those walls,
I will love against those walls,
I will dream against those walls,
I can lie against those walls,
or even try to break those walls,
I try to fly upon those walls,
I can bring light to your wall
again and again against those walls,
I will sleep against those walls,
I'll bet my life to sing my songs...
I can fight against those walls,
I can love against those...

(The Gift)

Pracá-dos-montes

(Gaiteiros de Lisboa)

Secret Heart

Secret heart
What are you made of
What are you so afraid of
Could it be
Three simple words
Or the fear of being overheard
What's wrong

Let em' in on your secret heart

Secret Heart
Why so mysterious
Why so sacred
Why so serious
Maybe you're
Just acting tough
Maybe you're just not man enough
What's wrong

Let em' in on your secret heart

This very secret
That you're trying to conceal
Is the very same one
That You're dying to reveal
Go tell her how, how you feel

Secret heart come out and share it
This loneliness, few can bear it
Could it have something to do with
Admitting that you just can't go through it alone?

Let em' in on your secret heart

This very secret
That you're trying to conceal
Is the very same one
That you're dying to reveal
Go tell her how, how you feel
This very secret heart

Go out and share it
This very secret heart

(Feist)

Darkness

Greed
Causing innocent blood to flow
Entire culture lost in the overthrow
They came to see, take whatever they please
Then all they gave back was death and disease

People were left with no choice but to decide
To conform to a system responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide, Responsible for genocide

AIDS is killing the entire African nation
And a vaccine is still supposedly under preparation
But these governments, they don't mind the procrastination.
They say we'll kill them off, take their land and go there for vacation

My peoples' culture was strong and was pure
And if not for that white greed, it would have endured
My people were left with no choice but to decide
To conform to a system

Their minds enslaved
Their souls encaged
You feel the rage
This brutality can never be undone
But the sun has not yet set
The bass and drums and microphone a threat
That's when you've got to get the cry from the inside
And see that they're responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide, Responsible for genocide

You jam your culture down my throat
Say I'm inferior when upon it I choke
You fill my mind with a false sense of history
And then you wonder why I have no identity

We'll strike a match and it'll catch
And spread the insight we need
A tiny fire burning bright
Shedding light on the darkness of greed

Yes, yes y'all, and you don't stop
Shedding light on the darkness of greed
Yes, yes y'all, and you don't stop
Shedding light on the darkness of greed

(Rage Against The Machine)

Dunas

Dunas são como divãs
biombos indiscretos de alcatrão sujos
rasgados por cactos e hortelãs
deitados nas dunas alheios a tudo
olhos penetrantes
pensamentos lavados

Bebemos dos lábios refrescos gelados
selamos segredos
saltamos rochedos
em câmara lenta como na tv
palavras a mais na idade dos porquês

Dunas como que são divãs
quem nos visse deitados
cabelos molhados bastante enrolados
sacos-cama salgados
nas dunas roendo maçãs
a ver garrafas d'óleo
boiando vazias nas ondas da manhã

(GNR)

Happy New Year

Did the ironing in a cowboy hat
Felt as fresh as the paint in this new flat
I will never tell you what to do
Have ambition simply to see things through

Did you know I could be a lot of fun
I'm aware that friendship can die young
As the glow from the street light bled
Down the Langlands Road we set off the best of friends

I know where I stand
I don't need you to hold my hand

Well, I've tried to get along with you
I have asked myself “What are we gonna do?”
I'm coming round to take a stand
Going to put us together with glue or an elastic band

I know where I stand
I don't need you to hold my hand

I am softer than my face would suggest
At times like these I'm at my lowest ebb
Now I can confide in you
If I cry to set the mood oh please could you cry too

Happy New Year
You are my only vice
Happy New Year
What if we compromised?
Happy New Year
I am open

Do you have to wear a frown like that?
You could have hit me with a baseball bat

Do you want to? (Yes I do)
Do you have to? (So do you)
Do you want to? (So do you)

(Camera Obscura)

Cantiga Bailada

Tenho à minha janela
Eras tão bonita
E eu já te não quero
O que tu não tens à tua
Um vaso de manjerico
Eras tão bonita
E eu já te não quero
Que dá cheiro a toda a rua

Adeus ó rua da ponte
Eras tão bonita
E eu já te não quero
Calçadinha mal segura
E quando o meu amor passa
Eras tão bonita
E eu já te não quero
Não há pedra que não bula

Ó ló ai la ri ló le la
Ó ló ai la ri ló ló

As pedras do meu balcão
Eras tão bonita
E eu já te não quero
Estão todas a três a três
Os meus amores de algum dia
Eras tão bonita
E eu já te não quero
Já os cá tenho outra vez

(Brigada Victor Jara)

Initials B.B.

Une nuit que j'étais
A me morfondre
Dans quelque pub anglais
Du cœur de Londres
Parcourant l'Amour Mon-
Stre de Pauwels
Me vint une vision
Dans l'eau de Seltz

Tandis que des médailles
D'impérator
Font briller à sa taille
Le bronze et l'or
Le platine lui grave
D'un cercle froid
La marque des esclaves
A chaque doigt

Jusques en haut des cuisses
Elle est bottée
Et c'est comme un calice
A sa beauté
Elle ne porte rien
D'autre qu'un peu
D'essence de Guerlain
Dans les cheveux

A chaque mouvement
On entendait
Les clochettes d'argent
De ses poignets
Agitant ses grelots
Elle avança
Et prononça ce mot :
Alméria

(Serge Gainsbourg)

Acordar Tarde

tocas as flores murchas que alguém te ofereceu
quando o rio parou de correr e a noite
foi tão luminosa quanto a mota que falhou
a curva - e o serviço postal não funcionou
no dia seguinte

procuras ávido aquilo que o mar não devorou
e passas a língua na cola dos selos lambidos
por assassinos - e a tua mão segurando a faca
cujo gume possui a fatalidade do sangue contaminado
dos amantes ocasionais - nada a fazer

irás sozinho vida dentro
os braços estendidos como se entrasses na água
o corpo num arco de pedra tenso simulando
a casa
onde me abrigo do mortal brilho do meio-dia

(Jorge Palma)

When You Were Young

You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now ... here he comes!

He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentleman
Like you imagined when you were young

Can we climb this mountain
I don't know
Higher now than ever before
I know we can make it if we take it slow
Let's take it easy
Easy now, watch it go

We're burning down the highway skyline
On the back of a hurricane that started turning
When you were young
When you were young

And sometimes you close your eyes
and see the place where you used to live
When you were young

They say the devil's water, it ain't so sweet
You don't have to drink right now
But you can dip your feet
Every once in a little while

You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now here he comes

He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentleman
Like you imagined when you were young
(He talks like a gentlemen, like you imagined when)
When you were young

I said he doesn't look a thing like Jesus
He doesn't look a thing like Jesus
But more than you'll ever know

(The Killers)

Superafim

Ontem quando eu acordei, ai, eu tava tão cansada
Eu me olhei no espelho e me lembrei de quando você
falou que não me suportava...
Mas na verdade eu também nunca te aguentei
por muito tempo então nem sei porque me preocupei
vê se me esquece, eu cansei
vê se me esquece eu cansei.

Mas, agora que eu cresci eu sou sereia e não te quero
mais aqui
Me tornei uma mulher ousada e de você não quero mais
nada
Agora vê se se toca que eu me toco também
eu sou sereia e não preciso de ninguém
Vê se me esquece, eu cansei, vê se me esquece eu
cansei.

VINIL
BAGUETE
PELICA
ME ESQUECE
CHIC
AGRESTE
SuperafimSuperafimSuperafim de mim

SAPATÊNIS
BOLSINHA
LUVINHA
VOCÊ
LESBIAN
SAPACAXA
SuperafimSuperafimSuperafim de mim

Sapatênis de vinil
Bolsinha baguete
Luvinha de pelica
Você não me esquece
Lesbian Chic
Sapacaxa do agreste
SuperafimSuperafimSuperafim de mim
Sapatênis de vinil
Bolsinha baguete
Luvinha de pelica
Você não me esquece
Lesbian Chic
Sapacaxa do agreste
SuperafimSuperafimSuperafim de mim

Super-afim
Super-afi-i-i-im
Super-afim
SuperafimSuperafimSuperafim de mim
Super-afim
Super-afi-i-i-im
Super-afim
SuperafimSuperafimSuperafim de mim

Ontem quando eu acordei.. ai, eu tava tão cansada
eu me olhei no espelho e me lembrei  de quando você
falou que não me suportava
Mas na verdade eu também nunca te aguentei
por muito tempo então nem sei porque me preocupei
vê se me esquece, eu cansei
vê se me esquece eu cansei.

(Cansei de Ser Sexy)

Into My Arms

I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

And I don't believe in the existence of angels
But looking at you I wonder if that's true
But if I did I would summon them together
And ask them to watch over you
To each burn a candle for you
To make bright and clear your path
And to walk, like Christ, in grace and love
And guide you into my arms

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

And I believe in Love
And I know that you do too
And I believe in some kind of path
That we can walk down, me and you
So keep your candles burning
And make her journey bright and pure
That she will keep returning
Always and evermore

Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms, O Lord
Into my arms

(Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds)

Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing

Baby did a bad bad thing, baby did a bad bad thing.
Baby did a bad bad thing, baby did a bad bad thing.

You ever love someone so much you thought your little heart was gonna break in two?
I didn't think so.
You ever tried with all your heart and soul to get you lover back to you?
I wanna hope so.
You ever pray with all your heart and soul just to watch her walk away?

Baby did a bad bad thing, baby did a bad bad thing.
Baby did a bad bad thing, feel like crying, feel like crying.

You ever toss and turn your lying awake and thinking about the one you love?
I don't think so.
You ever close your eyes your making believe your holding the one your dreaming of?
Well if you say so.
I hurts so bad when you finally know just how low, low, low, low, low, she'll go.

Baby did a bad bad thing, baby did a bad bad thing.
Baby did a bad bad thing, feel like crying, feel like crying.

Ohh. Feel like crying, feel like crying.
Ohh, feel like crying, feel like crying.

Baby did a bad bad thing, baby did a bad bad thing.

(Chris Isaak)