(reposted from about a year ago)


This is my favorite version of this song, with Stan Getz and João Gilberto and the woven Portuguese and English lyrics. Makes me think of warm summer nights! :) They are coming.

Corcovado -lyrics Tom Jobim

Um cantinho
Um violão
Este amor
Uma canção
Pra fazer feliz
A quem se ama.

Muita calma pra pensar
E ter tempo pra sonhar
Da janela vê-se o Corcovado
O redentor
Que lindo!

Quero a vida sempre assim
Com você perto de mim
Até o apagar
A velha chama.

E eu que era triste
Descrente deste mundo
Ao encontrar você
Eu conheci
o que é felicidade
Meu amor

Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)

Quiet nights of quiet stars quiet chords from my guitar
floating on the silence that surrounds us.

Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams quiet walks by quiet streams
and a window that looks out on the mountains and the sea, oh how lovely

This is where I want to be here with you so close to me
until the final flicker of life’s ember.

I who was lost and lonely believing life was only
a bitter tragic joke, have found with you,
the meaning of existence, oh my love