'What can i do?'

What can I do
When the bird's got to die
What can I do
When she's too weak to fly
What can I do
When she's calling my name
She's crying
Mama, Help me to live
What can I do

Anthony and the Johnsons - 'What can i do?' (cantada por Rufus Wainwright)

...e quando se pensa no que se quer fazer...

"Começo a conhecer-me. Não existo.
Sou o intervalo entre o que desejo ser e os outros me fizeram,
Ou metade desse intervalo, porque também há vida...
Sou isso, enfim...
Apague a luz, feche a porta e deixe de ter barulhos de chinelos no corredor.
Fique eu no quarto só com o grande sossego de mim mesmo.
É um universo barato. "

Álvaro de Campos

..e não só!

...até quando temos uma vista para o rio Tejo, de um dos miradouros de Lisboa, e começa a chover torrencialmente e ficamos debaixo da árvore à espera que a chuva acalme, mas ao mesmo tempo que continue assim, para permanecermos no abraço apertado e quente =)

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"Onde Habite o Esquecimento"

Pintura de Rene Magritte

Onde habite o esquecimento,
Nos vastos jardins sem madrugada;
Onde eu seja somente
Lembrança de uma pedra sepultada entre urtigas
Sobre a qual o vento foge à sua insónia.

Onde o meu nome deixe
O corpo que ele aponta entre os braços dos séculos,
Onde o desejo não exista.

Nessa grande região onde o mar, anjo terrível,
Não esconda como espada
Sua asa em meu peito,
Sorrindo cheio de graça etérea enquanto cresce a dor.

Além onde termine este anseio que exige um dono à sua imagem,
Submetendo a sua vida a outra vida,
Sem mais horizonte que outros olhos frente a frente.

Onde dores e alegrias não sejam mais que nomes,
Céu e terra nativos em redor de uma lembrança;
Onde ao fim fique livre sem eu mesmo o saber,
Dissolvido em névoa, ausência,
Ausência leve como carne de uma criança.

Além, além, longe;
Onde habite o esquecimento.

Luis Cernuda
(tradução de José Bento)
in Antologia da Poesia Espanhola Contemporânea, Assírio & Alvim

'One Life'

You say we have nothing in common
I wouldn't say that if i were you
All of us come in through the same door
That much if nothing ele i know is true
All of us will very soon be leaving
We were brought here, soon we will depart
Now i don't care if someone says i'm foolish
Cause while i'm here i'm singing from my heart

There's just one life coming from that one place
There's just one face and it's your face
There's just one life going to that one place
There's just one face and it's God's face
And it's in
Everyone it's in every place
It is everywhere that one face
I can see it shining trough
Can't you see it shining trough
Don't tell me that you don't
Just tell me that you do

I wouldn't want hurt, i wouldn't
I wouldn't wanna to do you harm
All of us came in trough the same door
Now would you let me sleep in your arms
All of us will very soon be leaving
We were brought here, soon we will depart
Now i don't care if someone says i'm foolish
Cause while i'm here, i'm singing from my heart

There's just one race and it's the human race
There's just one face babe it's your face
I can you see it shining trough
Can't you see it shining trough
Don't tell me that you don't
Just tell me that you do

There's just One Life

One Life - Lisa Ekdahl

'Never Let Me Go'

Never let me go
Love me much too much
If you let me go
Life would lose its touch
What would I be without you
There’s no place for me without you

Never let me go
I’d be lost if you went away
There’d be a thousand hours in the day
Without you I know

Because of one caress
My world was overturned
At the very start
All my bridges burned
By my flaming heart

You’d never leave, me would?
You couldn’t, hurt me?
Never let me go
Never let me go

Never Let Me Go - Stacey Kent

ora toma lá que são 'melões'!

"Só quando conseguires controlar a língua consegues controlar a mente"

Swami Vishwananda

Fotografia by Ana Raquel Joaquim

Roubo aos livros de aventuras
as minhas noites de menino.
Ergo a tenda com lençóis amarrotados
e faço de uma carcaça com manteiga e açúcar
a minha ração de combate e engodo.
Afio meticulosamente os lápis de cor
seguras armas contra as feras e esper.
Virão atraídas por comida e aventura.
Vislumbro-as já em sombra e luz.
De repente levanto um lençol e
as minhas aguardadas feras afinal fogem
surpreendidas na sua modéstia de ratos.

Carlos Alberto Machado
in Registo Civil, Assírio & Alvim

wow!

Massive Attack - Atlas Air

"Who Says" ?

Who says I can't get stoned
Turn off the lights and the telephone
Me in my house alone
Who says I can't get stoned

Who says I can't be free
From all of the things that I used to be
Rewrite my history
Who says I can't be free

It's been a long night in New York City
It's been a long night in Baton Rouge
I don't remember you looking any better
But then again I don't remember you

Who says I can't get stoned
Call up a girl that I used to know
Fake love for an hour or so
Who says I can't get stoned

Who says I can't take time
Meet all the girls in the county line
Wait on fate to send a sign
Who says I can't take time

It's been a long night in New York City
It's been a long night in Austin too
I don't remember you looking any better
But then again I don't remember you

Who says I can't get stoned
Plan a trip to Japan alone
Doesn't matter if I even go
Who says I can't get stoned

It's been a long night in New York City
It's been a long time since 22
I don't remember you looking any better
But then again I don't remember you

'Who Says' - John Mayer

"Sweet The Sting"

With a strut into the room
With his hat cocked sure defiantly
He said "I, I have heard
That you can play the way I like it to be played."
I said, "I can play, anyway that you want.
But first I want, I want to know

Baby is it sweet sweet
Sweet the sting
Is it real this infusion
Can it heal where others before have failed?
If so then somebody
Shake shake shake me sane
'cause I am inching ever closer to the tip of this scorpion's tail"

He said "I laid my weapons
down with my pistol
Fully loaded, a hunted man
To my root, will it end
Or begin in your cinnabar juice?"

Is it sweet sweet
Sweet the sting
Is it real this infusion
Can it heal where others before have failed?
If so then somebody
Shake shake shake me sane
'cause I am inching ever closer to the tip of this scorpion's tail"

Love let me breathe
Breathe you in
Melt the confusion
Until there is
There is your - union

'Sweet The Sting' - Tori Amos

"Tear You Apart"

Got a big plan, this mindset maybe its right
At the right place and right time, maybe tonight
And the whisper or handshake sending a sign
Wanna make out and kiss hard, wait nevermind

Late night, and passing, mention it flipped her
Best friend, who knows saying maybe it slipped
But the slip turns to terror and a crush to light
When she walked in, he throws up, believe its the fright

Its cute in a way, till you cannot speak
And you leave to have a cigarette, your knees get weak
An escape is just a nod and a casual wave
Obsessed about it, heavy for the next two days

It's only just a crush, it'll go away
It's just like all the others it'll go away
Or maybe this is danger and you just don't know
You pray it all away but it continues to grow

I want to hold you close
Skin pressed against me tight
Lie still, and close your eyes girl
So lovely, it feels so right

I want to hold you close
Soft breasts, beating heart
As I whisper in your ear

I want to f*cking tear you apart

Then he walked up and told her, thinking that he'd passed
And they talked and looked away a lot, doing the dance
Her hand brushed up against his, she left it there
Told him how she felt and then they locked in a stare

They took a step back, thought about it, what should they do
Cause theres always repercussions when you're dating in school
But their lips met, and reservations started to pass
Whether this was just an evening or a thing that would last

Either way he wanted her and this was bad
He wanted to do things to her it was making him crazy
Now a little crush turned into a like
And now he wants to grab her by the hair and tell her

'Tear You Apart' - She Wants Revenge

'Só o amor'

É o amor, nota bem, que tudo guia
e nada vale a pena sem amor.
Aqui, ali, além, seja onde for,
em maré de tristeza ou de alegria,
acima do desânimo e da dor,
no meio da depressão ou da euforia,
o que pode salvar-te é o amor.

Quem ama não hesita nem duvida
de que só do amor lhe vem ser forte
e olhar sem medo a certeza da morte,
pois é ele que dá sentido à vida.

Torquato da Luz