Estrada branca/ This happy Madness: interpretações sublimes

Estrada branca
Lua branca
Noite alta
Tua falta caminhando
Caminhando, caminhando
Ao lado meu
Uma saudade
Uma vontade
Tão doída
De uma vida
Vida que morreu
Estrada passarada
Noite clara
Meu caminho é tão sozinho
Tão sozinho
A percorrer
Que mesmo andando
Para a frente
Olhando a lua tristemente
Quanto mais ando
Mais estou perto
De você
Se em vez de noite
Fosse dia
Se o sol brilhasse
E a poesia
Em vez de triste
Fosse alegre
De partir
Se em vez de eu ver
Só minha sombra
Nessa estrada
Eu visse ao longo
Dessa estrada
Uma outra sombra
A me seguir
Mas a verdade
É que a cidade
Ficou longe, ficou longe
Na cidade
Se deixou meu bem-querer
Eu vou sozinho sem carinho
Vou caminhando meu caminho
Vou caminhando com vontade de morrer

(Antonio Carlos Jobim/ Vinicius de Moraes)








What should I call this happy madness that I feel inside of me
Sometime of wild October gladness that I never thought I'd see
What has become of all my sadness all my endless lonely sighs
Where are my sorrows now
What happened to the frown and is that self contented clown
Standing grinning in the mirror really me
I'd like to run through Central Park carve your initials in the bark
Of every tree I pass for every one to see
I feel that I've gone back to childhood and I'm skipping through the wildwood
So excited that I don't know what to do
What do I care if I'm a juvenile I smile my secret little smile
Because I know the change in me is you
What should I call this happy madness all this unexpected joy
That turned the world into a baby's bouncing toy
The god's are laughing far above one of them gave a little shove
And I fell gaily gladly madly into love

(Antonio Carlos Jobim/ Vinicius de Moraes/ Gene Lees)

They all laughed

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
When they said that man could fly

They told Marconi
Wireless was a phony
It's the same old cry
They laughed at me wanting you
Said I was reaching for the moon
But oh, you came through
Now they'll have to change their tune

They all said we never could be happy
They laughed at us and how!
But ho, ho, ho!
Who's got the last laugh now?

They all laughed at Rockefeller Center
Now they're fighting to get in
They all laughed at Whitney and his cotton gin
They all laughed at Fulton and his steamboat
Hershey and his chocolate bar

Ford and his Lizzie
Kept the laughers busy
That's how people are
They laughed at me wanting you
Said it would be, "Hello, Goodbye."
And oh, you came through
Now they're eating humble pie

They all said we'd never get together
Darling, let's take a bow
For ho, ho, ho!
Who's got the last laugh?
Hee, hee, hee!
Let's at the past laugh
Ha, ha, ha!
Who's got the last laugh now?"

(George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin)