Update: During comment outages you can still post a comment at this site by going to the 3rd section on my sidebar entitled: Site Syndication & Resources clicking on the Cell/PDA Site and entering your interesting and witty comments there. Everyone will be able to see them. Feel free to have a comment party. Can you tell I'm jonesing for comments? Or to de-stress, why not listen to some music and then tell me if you loved it or hated it.
Portuguese is one of the 5 languages I understand & speak. If you ask me where I learned it I couldn’t really tell you, because I was too young to remember. What I can tell you is when I returned 10 yrs ago to do volunteer work for a month in the Amazon region of Brazil, I was speaking Portuguese by the end of the first week.
It was then that I first heard the incredibly beautiful voice of Dulce Pontes. Last night as I lay in bed, the melody of Cancao de Mar / Song of the Sea, returned to haunt my sleep, as it does every so often when I think of my friends. I relate to the story she tells, that of the cruel sea snatching her loved ones away from her too soon.
My second favorite song is a duet she sings in Italian with Andrea Boccelli entitled O Mar e Tu / The Sea & You. The lyrics are so beautiful I’ve translated them for you (my Italian is better than my Portuguese) in the extended entry.
Even for us,
Even for us
There’s a reason
Not to be alone
And in your strong embrace I'd feel
the depth of your love as deep as the sea
And in our voices
the song of dreams
would set sail for our love to be
A man lost his heart that way
My love
If the sea & you would cease to be
I then also could not be
My love
Love truly exists when
We are close to God
My Love
In your eyes
There’s a soul's mirror
A life of sailing
Of worlds travelled
and of dreams not followed
Without goodbyes.
And gently,
Perhaps in the sea
or in its foam I will find the sun
or I might find you,
Follow the light, my love
A man finds his heart that way.
My love
If the sea & you would cease to be
I then also could not be
My love
Love exists when
We are close to God
Love
My love
If the sea & you would cease to be
I then also could not be
My love
Love exists when
We are close to God
Love
Although its very different from what I normally listen to, I liked it.
Posted by: lisa at March 19, 2007 08:58 PMWow! The Sea and You is a very powerful song. Altho I don't speak any other languages, you can feel the passion. Very nice selection!
Posted by: Dazd at March 20, 2007 07:03 AMComment, comment, comment . . . how's that?
Posted by: oddybobo at March 20, 2007 08:53 AMThis is a comment.
Posted by: _Jon at March 20, 2007 09:41 AM