1. Adeus América & Eu Quero Um Samba
Haroldo Barbosa/Geraldo Jacques & Haroldo Barbosa/Janet de Almeida
Não posso mais, ai que saudade do Brasil
Ai que vontade que eu tenho de voltar
Adeus América, essa terra é muito boa
Mas não posso ficar porque
O samba mandou me chamar
O samba mandou me chamar
Eu digo adeus ao boogie-woogie ao woogie boogie
E ao swingue também
Chega de rocks, foxtrots, e pinotes
Isso não me convém
Eu vou voltar prá cuíca, bater na barrica
Tocar tamborim
Chega de lights, e all rights, e de fights, goodnights
Isso não está mais pra mim
Eu quero um samba feito só pra mim
Acabado, virado, espalhado
Eu quero a poesia feita assim
Quero sambar, quero sambar, quero sambar
Quero sambar porque no samba eu sei que vou
Me acabar, me virar, me espalhar
A noite inteira até o sol raiar
O samba mandou me chamar
Ah quando o samba acaba
Eu fico triste então
Vai melancolia que eu quero alegria
Dentro do meu coração
2. Fire and Wood
Luciana Souza/Larry Klein/David Batteau
The lights of São Paulo are flashing
Your car sends you crashing forever along
The clocks were turned back, you remember
I think it's still November
But the party is on
We're off to the hills on the back road
Our best friend has his kit, there's nothing to smoke
He's nothing but another pretender
A trust-fund West Ender
He's rich but he's broke
Fire and wood
We're burning it down
The whiskey is good
We own this damn town
We're off to the Forró for dancing
In minutes we're prancing to the V.I.P. room
We're back on the floor in a half- beat
Then back out on the street
I lost my perfume!
The art dealer's house is a beauty
His son is a cutie
His father has galleries he runs
We're turning the world on its head
Then off to his bed
For some conjugal fun
Fire and wood
We're burning it down
The whiskey is good
We own this damn town
I didn't mean what I said
Come back, come back
The good times are all still ahead
Come back, come back
Back down the road that we came up
The street signs are glowing, the houses are gone
The dawn is a sky full of embers
It's still November
And summer is on
We'll go back to my place for music
Then off to the airportA flight to the shore!
We're living the lives we were born for
We're going nowhere, but at least we're not poor!
Fire and wood
We're burning it down
The whiskey is good
We own this damn town
3. Our Gilded Home
Luciana Souza/Larry Klein/David Batteau
Our Gilded Home
Out of ten thousand tiny battles we have lost
We mine the weakness in ourselves and find the cost
And love is blind tonight
But that's alright
We left our homeless past to find a place to be
And from our thoughts of the impossible we flee
But I believe…
It's written on the walls around us
The sorrow or the joy we harvest
Open wide
To the flow of the tears we cry
And from such sad beginnings we have come
And with our hearts crisscrossed like rivers
We have hung.... our portraits in the air
In this darkened calm
Now our words seem easier to share
Are we prepared?
We fly away
We'll bathe our feet out in the waters of the South
We'll taste the salt of restless futures in our mouths again
There's no end for you and me
There's no end for you and me
4. Love – Poem 65
Luciana Souza/Larry Klein (adapted from a poem by e.e.cumings)
Love is the every only God
Who spoke this earth, so big and glad
And Man, so small and sad
For love, beginning means return
Like seas, one querying wave will always whitely yearn
Oh, merciful love whispered here
Oh, one kind of love
Bright with hope
In your eyes
Illimitable star
5. Circus Life
Luciana Souza/Larry Klein/David Batteau
You find the strength
You lose your voice
You find some peace
You miss the noise
You find your chance
You crash your car
You lose your way
And find your heart
You reach your goal
And it's your end
You lose your life
Where life begins
You make it back
But you're not home
Where is that peace you'd known?
Day and night
In the circus life
Loose or tight
In this circus life
You finally stand up on your feet
But earthquakes shake you in your sleep
Savor a moment, you're not broke
The streets go up in fire and smoke
You try to shake your misery
The cure is worse than the disease
You book your flight, you cancel twice
You long for beans and rice!
Day and night
In the circus life
Wrong or right
In this circus life
Am I boring you again?
If you're not interested, pretend!
Don't make me beg you for a smile
I feel like I'm in Kafka's Trial
Is there something you can't say?
You can't always get your way
You're like the poet on his box
Am I your protégé?
Day and night
In the circus life
Fight or flight
In this circus life
6. Once Again
(Luciana Souza/Larry Klein/David Batteau)
Once again
All alone
I stayed too long
Or I left too soon
Drapes are drawn
On my sad little throne
Some lines were crossed
In our warm borrowed room
After the actors left our party
And all sweet illusions were gone
One more drink, the bottle's empty
One more word, the deed is done
One bad move out of many
One more war won't be won
Our best work
We've done our part
Our hopeless dreams
Of an open heart
It's getting late
Let's go to bed
It's all been played
And it's all been said
After the actors left our party
And all sweet illusions were gone
One more drink, the bottles' empty
One more word, the deed is done
One bad move out of many
One more war won't be won
Once again
All alone
I stayed too long
Or I left too soon
7. Tide
Luciana Souza/Larry Klein (adapted from a poem by e.e.cumings)
Lonely which love never seems
Only in a lover's dreams
Flowing day as into night
Love is never always right
Love's flame dimming brightly as
Our best weakness tries to forgive
Holding that which can't be held
Love's to keeping as to keepings give
Faith's doubt proudly depths above
And as humbly heights below
Kneeling, we as lovers
Pray that we will once outgrow
8. Sorriu Para Mim
Garoto/Luis Claudio
Sorriu pra mim
Não disse nada, porém
Fez um jeitinho
De quem quer voltar
Dançava com alguém
Que me roubou seu amor
Agora é tarde demais
Não sofro mais essa dor
È tarde, é tarde
Arranjei um novo amor Romero Lubambo, guitar
Larry Klein, bass
Vinnie Colaiuta, drums
Cyro Baptista, percussion
9. Chuva
Luciana Souza/Paulo Leminski
Quando chove,
Eu chovo,
Faz sol,
Eu faço,
De noite,
Anoiteço,
Tem deus,
Eu rezo,
Não tem,
Esqueço,
Chove de novo,
De novo, chovo,
Assobio no vento,
Daqui me vejo,
Lá vou eu,
Gesto no movimento
10. Amulet
Paul Simon
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