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Alceu Valença

Porto da Saudade - Ao VivoPort of Longing

Alceu Valença · Valencianas (Ao Vivo) Valencianas (Live) (2014)

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Composer: Alceu Valença

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Full lyrics

Faz tanto tempo, tempo é rua Soledade

Leia saudade quando escrevo solidão

Quis o destino tortuoso dos ciganos

E as aventuras dos pneus de um caminhão

Que atravessava o riacho de salobro

Deixando marcas desenhadas pelo chão

O vento vinha e varria a minha volta

A ventania e o tempo não têm compaixão


Oh mana deixa eu ir

Oh mana eu vou só

Oh mana deixa eu ir

Pro sertão de Caicó


Faz tanto tempo, tempo é porto da saudade

Praias do Rio de Janeiro no verão

Quero o destino das águas dos oceanos

Me evaporando preu chover no riachão

Mergulharia no riacho de salobro

Lavando a culpa como se eu fosse cristão

O vento vinha e varria à minha volta

A ventania e o tempo não têm compaixão

Translation

It's been so long, time is Soledade street

Read longing when I write loneliness

Destiny wanted the tortuous path of the gypsies

And the adventures of the tires of a truck

That crossed the brackish stream

Leaving marks drawn on the ground

The wind came and swept around me

The gale and time have no compassion


Oh sis, let me go

Oh sis, I'll go alone

Oh sis, let me go

To the backlands of Caicó


It's been so long, time is a port of longing

Beaches of Rio de Janeiro in the summer

I want the destiny of the waters of the oceans

Evaporating me to rain in the big stream

I would dive into the brackish stream

Washing away the guilt as if I were a Christian

The wind came and swept around me

The gale and time have no compassion

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