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♪ O Compasso dos Meus Dias: Ziggy, Celine Dion

TALVEZ SEJA o dia cinzento que o sol rompe amiúde, que me traz tantas recordações da infância e adolescência. Talvez seja o aroma adocicado da voz, a língua francesa, pode ser milhentas coisas, mas no fim é o prazer de ouvir a canção.

Ziggy, il s’appelle ziggy
Je suis folle de lui
C’est un garçon pas comme les autres
Mais moi je l’aime, c’est pas d’ma faute
Même si je sais
Qu’il ne m’aimera jamais

Ziggy, il s’appelle ziggy
Je suis folle de lui
La première fois que je l’ai vu
Je m’suis jetée sur lui dans la rue
J’lui ai seulement dit
Que j’avais envie de lui

Il était quatre heures du matin
J’étais seule et j’avais besoin
De parler à quelqu’un
Il m’a dit: viens prendre un café
Et on s’est raconté nos vies
On a ri, on a ple

Ziggy, il s’appelle ziggy
C’est mon seul ami
Dans sa tête y’a que d’la musique
Il vend des disques dans une boutique
On dirait qu’il vit dans une autre galaxie

Tous les soirs, il m’emmène danser
Dans des endroits très très gais
Où il a des tas d’amis
Oui, je sais, il aime les garçons
Je devrais me faire une raison
Essayer de l’oublier, , , mais

Ziggy, il s’appelle ziggy
Je suis folle de lui
C’est un garçon pas comme les autres
Et moi je l’aime, c’est pas d’ma faute
Même si je sais
Qu’il ne m’aimera jamais.

♪ O Compasso dos Meus Dias: Summer of ‘69, Bryan Adams

I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played ’til my fingers bled
It was summer of ‘69

Me and some guys from school
Had a Band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I shualda known we’d never get far

Oh when I lock back now
That was seemes to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya - I’d always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life

(CHORUS)

Ain’t no use in complainin’
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin’s down at the drive in
And that’s when I met you

Standin on a mama’s porch
You told me that you’d wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was no or never
Those were the best days of my life

(Chorus) Back in Summer of ‘69

Man we were killin’ time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin’ can last forever, no

And now the times are changin’
Look at everything that’s come and gone
Somethimes when I play that old six-string
I think about ya wonder what went wrong

Standin’ on a mama’s porch
You told me it would last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life

♪ O Compasso dos Meus Dias: Hotel California, Eagles

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
’this could be heaven or this could be hell’
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say…

Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the hotel california
Any time of year, you can find it here

Her mind is tiffany-twisted, she got the mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

So I called up the captain,
’please bring me my wine’
He said, ’we haven’t had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine’
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say…

Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
They livin’ it up at the hotel california
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said ’we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’
And in the master’s chambers,
They gathered for the feast
The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can’t kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
’relax,’ said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!

♪ O Compasso dos Meus Dias: Run Away Train, Soul Asylum

Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a slow torch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning

So tired that I couldn’t even sleep
So many secrets I couldn’t keep
Promised myself I wouldn’t weep
One more promise I couldn’t keep

It seems no one can help me now
I’m in too deep
There’s no way out
This time I have really led myself astray

CHORUS
Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I’m neither here no there

Can you help me remember how to smile
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded
Life’s mystery seems so faded

I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just drownin’ in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train

Everything is cut and dry
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don’t believe it

CHORUS

Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughin’ at the rain
Little out of touch, little insane
Just easier than dealing with the pain

Runaway train never comin’ back
Runaway train tearin’ up the track
Runaway train burnin’ in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same

 

♪ O Compasso dos Meus Dias: Fields of Gold, Sting

You’ll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we walk in the fields of gold

So she took her love
For to gaze awhile
Upon the fields of barley
In his arms she fell as her hair came down
Among the fields of gold

Will you stay with me, will you be my love
Among the fields of barley
We’ll forget the sun in his jealous sky
As we lie in the fields of gold

See the west wind move like a lover so
Upon the fields of barley
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold
I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I’ve broken
But I swear in the days still left
We’ll walk in the fields of gold
We’ll walk in the fields of gold

Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of gold
You’ll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in the fields of gold
When we walked in the fields of gold
When we walked in the fields of gold

[image by Stefan Elf]

♪ O Compasso dos Meus Dias: Talking about a revolution, Tracy Chapman

Don’t you know
They’re talkin’ about a revolution
It sounds like whisper
Don’t you know
They’re talkin’ about a revolution
It sounds like whisper

While they’re standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion

Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take what’s theirs

Don’t you know
You better run…
Oh I said you better
Run
run
run…

♪ O Compasso dos Meus Dias: Sagres, Luís Represas

Para cá de onde dorme o sol
eu fico todas as tardes
a ver se ele se vai embora
e me deixa confiado
as memorias de outrora
em que levantamos tendas
sopramos canções de guerra
semeamos nesta terra
novos sonhos que ainda agora
parecem sonhar de novo

Sagres
tu sabes
como se arma um coração
agarramos uma vida
desatamos a paixão
oh sagres
tu sabes
na ponta da solidão

No palco de uma fogueira
entre risos de medronhos
fomos as noites dos lobos
escondidos nas piteiras
e os beijos não foram poucos
a noite não tinha céu
o dia não tinha chão
o tempo nao tinha cara
e o mar tomava-nos conta
dos cinco dedos da mão

Sagres
tu sabes
como se arma um coração
agarramos uma vida
desatamos a paixão
oh sagres
tu sabes
na ponta da solidão

 [image by Miguel Roa Guzman]