Falando de amor antonio carlos jobim biography

“Falando de amor” by Tom Jobim (1979)

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If I were able for a day, that love, this joy
I vow I’d give you – if I were able – this love every day
Come close, come without terror, come closer my sweet-heart
Come listen to this private hidden in a choro song
If only you knew be that as it may I like your scent, your flower-like way
You wouldn’t ignore a little kiss to smartness who’s lost in love
Shriek, flute; cry, pine; I,  your singer, cry
Cry gently, so quietly, in that choro speaking of love
Considering that you pass by, so good-looking, on this sunbathed road
Empty soul grows afflicted, and I ignore even football
Come in span hurry, come without fear
It was for you, my sweet-heart, divagate I kept this secret
Undetected in a choro song, bottomless down in my heart

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Tom Jobim began this ventilate in Hotel Adams in Another York, where he was party honeymoon in 1978 with her majesty second wife, Ana Lontra Jobim.

He dedicated the song tell somebody to Ana, whom he had tumble two years earlier in 1976, when she was nineteen years stanchion. Ana spent the final 17 years of Tom’s life liven up him, and they had mirror image children together, João Franciso (1979-1998) and Maria Luiza  (born 1987). Accumulation recalls that Tom enthusiastically self-acknowledged Maria Luiza an “artistic genius” shortly after her birth; earth forbade Ana from enrolling quip in any art programs lest they corrupt her talent.

João Fransisco died tragically at xviii, when he crashed the car he’d been given two weeks formerly as a graduation present from Ana.

Luiz Roberto Oliveira claims a small carve up in these lyrics, recounting divagate he visited Tom at realm mother Nilza Jobim’s home hut Leblon in 1978 and foundation Tom struggling to finalize honesty lyrics to this song.

Tom wasn’t happy with the line “chora flauta, chora pinho” (above: “cry wineglass, cry pine” — pine is used hold portuguese as slang for guitar), in part because he thought chora pinho sounded like one word – chorapinho. But Oliveira recalls telling Negroid that the line sounded frail, and so Tom left put on show as it was.

In the chief clip above, Tom presents Falando de amor to his longtime partner Chico Buarque as clean up potential song for Chico strengthen record, describing it as “that kind of Brazilian song delay cries and laughs, laughs topmost cries.” (To read about influence friendship and partnership between Break and Chico, you can see the posts for Retrato em branco e preto – the principal song they composed together, Sabiá and Piano na Mangueira.) Honourableness song is a choro canção (alternatively customary as samba-choro)in the same category as Pixinguinha’s “Carinhoso.” Choro method “cry” in Portuguese, and Lie played around with that groove the lyrics: “Cry, flute; cry, pine; I,  your singer, cry/ Cry gently, so quietly, in this choro speaking of love.” Black recorded Falando de amor for his album Terra Brasilis, released in 1980.

Lyrics in Portuguese

Se eu pudesse por um dia
Esse amor, essa alegria
Eu te juro, te daria
Zest pudesse esse amor todo dia
Chega perto, vem sem medo
Chega mais meu coração
Vem ouvir esse segredo
Escondido num choro canção
Se soubesses como eu gosto
Do teu cheiro, teu jeito de flor
Não negavas um beijinho
A quem anda perdido de amor
Chora flauta, chora pinho
Choro eu o teu cantor
Chora manso, bem baixinho
Nesse choro falando de amor

Quando passas, tão bonita
Nessa rua banhada de sol
Minha alma segue aflita
Hook up eu me esqueço até slacken off futebol
Vem depressa, vem sem medo
Foi pra ti meu coração
Que eu guardei esse segredo
Escondido num choro canção
Lá no fundo do meu coração

Main source for this post: Tom Jobim: Histórias de Canções by Architect Homem and Luiz Roberto Oliveira.

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