I grew up in a conservative home where dancing wasn't really something on the agenda, haha! These days I have occasionally engaged in a few varieties of dancing ... contradance and some basic salsa steps, mainly. Yet I've always held out the hope that someday you will teach me to slow-dance together in the privacy our home. Someday we will listen to this lovely music, dancing cheek to cheek. I don't speak more than a few phrases of Portuguese, but I do know that "Carinhoso" is one of my favorite Brazilian choros.
Portuguese itself is one of the most beautiful sung languages, in my opinion. Here is a vocal rendition of "Carinhoso" to prove my point. So soothing, so sensual...
Meu coração, não sei porque (My heart, I don't know why)
Bate feliz, quando te vê (Beats happily, when it sees you)
E os meus olhos ficam sorrindo (And my eyes are smiling)
E pelas ruas vão te seguindo (And through the streets they are following you)
Mas mesmo assim, foges de mim (Even though you run away from me)
Ah! Se tu soubesses (Ah! If only you knew)
Como sou tão carinhoso (How tender I am)
E muito e muito que te quero (And how much, how much I want you)
E como é sincero o meu amor (And how sincere is my love)
Eu sei que tu não fugirias mais de mim (I know that you would no longer run away from me)
Vem, vem, vem, vem (Come here, come, come, come)
Vem sentir o calor (Come and feel the heat)
Dos lábios meus (Of my lips)
À procura dos teus (Looking for yours)
Vem matar esta paixão (Come kill this passion)
Que me devora o coração (Which devours my heart)
E só assim então (And only then)
Serei feliz, bem feliz (Will I be happy, very happy)
Music by Pixinguinha, 1917
Lyrics by Braguinha, 1937
Waiting,
Me
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