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VOCÊ NÃO ME ENSINOU A TE ESQUECER Mendes/Wilson/Lucas,words by Joel Sattler
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My version is based on a recording by Caetano Veloso:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oARKLXIj6zw



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VOCÊ NÃO ME ENSINOU A TE ESQUECER sung by Caetano Veloso, written by Fernando Mendes / José Wilson / Lucas, new words by Joel Sattler

 

New title: “If Only If Only”

 

There was a street I walked down every evening

Way back when in the sixties

The crowd was so full of the lovers and music

Always moving and choosing

 

But then one night I cut down thru an alley

I don’t know why that I did it

But on the other side I knew that I was lost

When I recognized nothing

 

But then I saw the mirror of a girl

Reflected in the window of a store

I wasn’t really sure of who I was then

So I asked her a question

 

Tomorrow

Would she be in the same place as today?

Or would she still insist that I’m to blame?

Or would she fall on through a thousand doors

and fall away and fall forever and a day?

 

She touched me,

She put a finger on my lips and shushed me

She said I’ve always waited for your coming

And now that you are here I won’t release you

And if you attempt to go I will control you

 

Tomorrow

It seemed so very very far away

And where this love would go I was afraid 

And even if you’d told me

I would still have had to wait behind and see what she would say 

 

If only I had not walked down thru that alley

Not entered shadow’s valley

If only I had gone a different way from left to right

I would be a free man tonight

 

If only I had got out of that place

If only I’d achieved a state of grace

If only she had tried to understand me

If would have played out my hand

 

If only, if only I had had the guts to leave

I could have made the spider web unweave

I could have made escape

from this insane and crazy land that she creates of make believe

 

If only, if only I’d have heeded their advice or

If only I’d have thought out once or twice or

Then I’d survive the rolling of the dice

And I’d unlock the prison of my own device

 

Tomorrow

Would she be in the same place as today?

Or would she still insist that I’m to blame?

Or would she fall on through a thousand doors

and fall away and fall forever and a day?

 

She touched me,

She put a finger on my lips and shushed me

She said I’ve always waited for your coming

And now that you are here I won’t release you

And if you attempt to go I will control you

 

Tomorrow

It seemed so very very far away

And where this love would go I was afraid 

And even if you’d told me

I would still have had to wait behind and see what she would say 

 

 

 

 

_____________________________

 

 

Original lyrics in Portuguese by Fernando Mendes / José Wilson / Lucas

 

Não vejo mais você faz tanto tempo

Que vontade que eu sinto

De olhar em seus olhos, ganhar seus abraços

É verdade, eu não minto

 

E nesse desespero em que me vejo

Já cheguei a tal ponto

De me trocar diversas vezes por você

Só pra ver se te encontro

 

Você bem que podia perdoar

E só mais uma vez me aceitar

Prometo agora vou fazer por onde nunca mais perdê-la

 

Agora, que faço eu da vida sem você?

Você não me ensinou a te esquecer

Você só me ensinou a te querer

E te querendo eu vou tentando te encontrar

 

Vou me perdendo

Buscando em outros braços seus abraços

Perdido no vazio de outros passos

Do abismo em que você se retirou

E me atirou e me deixou aqui sozinho

 

Agora, que faço eu da vida sem você?

Você não me ensinou a te esquecer

Você só me ensinou a te querer

e te querendo eu vou tentando me encontrar

 

E nesse desepero em que me vejo

já cheguei a tal ponto

de me trocar diversas vezes por você

só pra ver se te encontro

 

Você bem que podia perdoar

E só mais uma vez me aceitar

Prometo agora vou fazer por onde nunca mais perdê-la

 

Agora, que faço eu da vida sem você?

Você não me ensinou a te esquecer

Você só me ensinou a te querer

E te querendo eu vou tentando te encontrar

 

Vou me perdendo

Buscando em outros braços seus abraços

Perdido no vazio de outros passos

Do abismo em que você se retirou

E me atirou e me deixou aqui sozinho

 

Agora, que faço eu da vida sem você?

Você não me ensinou a te esquecer

Você só me ensinou a te querer

e te querendo eu vou tentando te encontrar

 

Vou me perdendo

Buscando em outros braços seus abraços

Perdido no vazio de outros passos

Do abismo em que você se retirou

E me atirou e me deixou aqui sozinho

 

Agora, que faço eu da vida sem você?

Você não me ensinou a te esquecer

Você só me ensinou a te querer

E te querendo eu vou tentando me encontrar

 

 

 

 

 

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Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on May 15, 2010
One must remember to forget, and forget what one must not remember!

Georg



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