From taking so much arrow shots from your gaze
My chest even looks like you know what?
A target shooting board
There's nowhere else to pierce
(Nowhere else)
From taking so much arrow shots from your gaze
My chest even looks like you know what?
A target shooting board
There's nowhere else to pierce
Your gaze kills more than carabine bullet
Than strychnine venom
Than a baiano's machete
Your gaze kills more than a car crash
Kills more than a revolver bullet
From taking so much arrow shots from your gaze
My chest even looks like you know what?
A target shooting board
There's nowhere else to pierce
(Nowhere else)
From taking so much arrow shots from your gaze
My chest even looks like you know what?
A target shooting board
There's nowhere else to pierce
Your gaze kills more than carabine bullet
Than strychnine venom
Than a baiano's machete
Your gaze kills more than a car crash
Kills more than a revolver bullet
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this song actually has a lot of proposital typos and little puns, they play a lot with words in it, but i wasn't able to translate that so i just kept the direct translation.
just another classic, bossa nova this time.
this one is extra special to me as it is me and my mom's "thing", at least for me.
usually, brazil is knowned by samba and bossa nova (gringos even love to plagiarize it, its wonderful really), but i never see people who really know the story of this music genres.
actually samba was (and still kinda is) a marginalized type of songs, as it was even legally prohibited during a long time and considered the total opposite of the European arts (which were the rich and good type of arts). samba is derivated from african music and it is openly reliant on black culture on brazil, that's pretty much why.
bossa nova, though, was basically the whitewashing of samba, with calmer and more internationally (north american) appealing, most of the more famous singers of the genre being white and it being less "racially charged". in it's own, though, it has a lot to do with the movements against the dictatorship and their own personalities and all.
(of course it's not just that, it was just a little summary and context)
although bossa nova and samba aren't the same thing, they both carry some prejudice, principally samba, and some people don't really care to distinguish between them.
I'm saying all of this because that's a real big part of my life, since I lived the crucial part of my childhood with someone really controlling towards women, that (don't ask me how nor why) really hated his own culture and, for that time, me and my mom weren't allowed to do some things.
one of this things was listening to samba.
that's why I'm so passionate about it, since now that I can listen to what I want without having to hide it.
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translated brazilian songs
De Todomy way of showing my overflowing passion for my culture using two of my biggest loves: songs and books. [ translation from portuguese to english all made by me | from classic samba to underground rap, i don't have a "polished" taste in music | mostl...
