Aquarela: A Brazilian song

Posted on December 18, 2007 | 294 views
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(This is translation of a song from Brazilian Portuguese that one of my friend Gisele sent me sometime back)

In a piece of paper I draw a yellow sun

And with five or six lines it’s easy to raise a castle

I run the pencil around my hand and I get a glove

And if I make it rain with two lines I have an umbrella

If a drop of paint falls on a blueish piece of paper

In a moment I imagine a beautiful gull flying in the sky

It goes flying, surrounding the immense line North and South

I’m travelling with it to Hawaii, Peking or Istanbul

I paint a sail ship white and navigate

It’s both sky and sea in a blue kiss

Among the clouds, it’s appearing, a beautiful airplane, pink and green

All around, colouring with its flashing lights

Just some imagination and it’s taking off, smoothly and nice

and if we really want, it’s gonna land

In a piece of paper I draw a departing ship

with some good fellows cheering the happiness of life

From one to the other America I cross in a blink

I spin simple compasses and in a circle I have the world

A child is walking and walking it reaches the wall

and there ahead, waiting for us, the future is

And the future is a starship that we try to control

Busy and merciless and unscheduled to arrive

Without clearance, changes our lives

and then it invites to smile or to cry

In this road, it’s not up to us to know or see what will come

It’s end, no one knows for sure where will get

Let’s go all on a wonderful path

of a watercolour that someday is finally

gonna fade away

In a piece of paper I draw a yellow sun

That will fade away

And with five or six lines it’s easy to raise a castle

That will fade away

I spin simple compasses and in a circle I have the world

That will fade away…

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5 Responses to “Aquarela: A Brazilian song”

  1. Anonymous on January 26th, 2005 4:43 am

    I liked your blog!!! :)
    Very cool…
    And I love “Aquarela”
    Beijos (Kisses) of your brazilian Friend:
    Fernanda

  2. Raza Rumi on December 18th, 2007 11:20 pm

    thanks for this lovely song..
    thoughtful –

    check the links now on PTH and JR

  3. Dr Farrukh Malik on December 18th, 2007 11:27 pm

    @Raza Rumi:
    You are welcome sir and thanks for linking!

  4. Nayni on February 7th, 2008 5:57 pm

    And the future is a starship that we try to control

    Busy and merciless and unscheduled to arrive

    Without clearance, changes our lives

    very true !!! :)

  5. Mariam on July 27th, 2009 4:36 pm

    superb!!!

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