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DESAFINADO by Antonio Carlos Jobim with new English lyrics by Joel Sattler
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DESAFINADO music by Antonio Carlos Jobim with new English lyrics by Joel Sattler

 "Desafinado" was composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim with lyrics in Portuguese by Newton Mendonça.

[The original English language lyrics were written by Jon Hendricks and Jessie Cavanaugh.]

 

 

When I try to sing you say I sound off-key
Can’t stay on the beat and wreck the melody 
But you are so beautiful I have to find a way
the feeling in my heart is more than I can say

The music of you has to soar outside of me
and to hold it in would be such agony
the camera of my mind it has your photograph
but then when you listen you just have to laugh

And if you must insist on classifying me
You would rate me lower than a Marxist comedy 
And I have to lie to me to open up my mouth
So this is bossa nova going south

Don’t forget that in each beat a heart must go
carried in the tune is more that you can ever know
if only you could hear the song inside of me
and if only I could touch you
then you’d own my soul completely
and my poor desafinado heart would be in your control


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Original version in Portuguese by Newton Mendonça.


Quando eu vou cantar, você não deixa
E sempre vêm a mesma queixa
Diz que eu desafino, que eu não sei cantar
Você é tão bonita, mas tua beleza também pode se enganar

Se você disser que eu desafino amor
Saiba que isto em mim provoca imensa dor
Só privilegiados têm o ouvido igual ao seu
Eu possuo apenas o que Deus me deu

Se você insiste em classificar
Meu comportamento de anti-musical
Eu mesmo mentindo devo argumentar
Que isto é Bossa Nova, isto é muito natural

O que você não sabe nem sequer pressente
É que os desafinados também têm um coração
Fotografei você na minha Rolley-Flex
Revelou-se a sua enorme ingratidão

Só não poderá falar assim do meu amor
Este é o maior que você pode encontrar
Você com a sua música esqueceu o principal
Que no peito dos desafinados
No fundo do peito bate calado
Que no peito dos desafinados também bate um coração

 

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 Reviews of "DESAFINADO by Antonio Carlos Jobim with new English lyrics by Joel Sattler"
Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on April 7, 2010
"...E sempre vêm a mesma queixa..." Senhor Desafinado, a queixa é nostra! (LOL)

Georg



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