Meditação

Meditação (Tom Jobim, Newton Mendonça)

Quem acreditou

No amor, no sorriso, na flor

Entao sonhou, sonhou...

E perdeu a paz

O amor, o sorriso e a flor

Se transformam depressa demais

Quem, no coraçao

Abrigou a tristeza de ver tudo isto se perder

E, na solidao

Procurou um caminho e seguiu,

Já descrente de um dia feliz

Quem chorou, chorou

E tanto que seu pranto já secou

Quem depois voltou

Ao amor, ao sorriso e à flor

Então tudo encontrou

E a própria dor

Revelou o caminho do amor

E a tristeza acabou

Meditação (Translated by KT)

He who believed

In the love, in the smile, in the flower

Kept on dreaming and dreaming

Lost his peace

As the love, the smile and the flower

Transformed themselves ao rapidly away

He who in the heart

Sheltering the sadness to see averything shatter into pieces

And in his solitude

Searching for his path to follow

Now cannot believe that a happy day will ever visit agaian

He cried and cried

So much that all his tears dried up without a single drop of tear

He who then returned

To the love, the smile and the flower

Managed to piece everything back together again

For the sufferings and sorrows that he went through

Opened up the path towards love

Putting an end to the sadness