BR

Vento que embala a bananeira
Vento que embala a bananeira
Eh oh

Cantar tendo o prazer de acreditar
Que o amor é a semente
E a agua e a fonte e a luz
Alimenta a razão
Vivendo a paixão
Sentindo a saudade
verdade tao clara
Na dor escondida
Na força do coração

Vento que embala a bananeira
Vento que embala a bananeira
Eh oh

Volta para casa menina
Teu pai esta te esperando na rede
Severina esta com muita sede
Como peixe fora d'agua
Como peixe fora d'agua

Vento que embala a bananeira
Vento que embala a bananeira
Eh oh


EN

Wind that cradles the banana tree
Wind that cradles the banana tree
Eh oh

Singing with the pleasure of believing
That love is the seed
And water and fountain and light
Feeding reason
Living the passion
Feeling the longing
The truth so clear
In hidden pain
In the strength of the heart

Wind that rocks the banana tree
Wind that rocks the banana tree
Eh oh

Come home girl
Your father is waiting for you in the hammock
Severina is very thirsty
Like a fish out of water
Like a fish out of water

Wind that cradles the banana tree
Wind that cradles the banana tree
Eh oh

I am a soul for sale,
Walking inside a maze,
I am a hidden trail,
Lost in myself for days,
It’s not the life I choose,
This is the straw I drew,
It’s not the game I play,
This is the price I pay.

I'm sorry I'm sorry,
For what I've done,
I'm sorry I'm sorry,
For what I've done.

Plans I had all fall through,
The moment that I saw you,
Here we go round again,
Swept up in your whirlwind,
This is the final stand,
Beating me down again,
All my defences fail,
Everything fades away.

I'm sorry I'm sorry,
For what I've done,
I'm sorry I'm sorry,
For what I've done.

FR:
Quand mes pensées vont parfois,
Vers des lieux distants

Là ou j’étais autrefois

Je vois palpitant


paraître un pays au-delà du grand océan

paraître des bribes de joie,

de tendresse
je ne pourrai oublier les couleurs,

le vent
les gens, la sérénité,

le
bonheur présent
là-bas
je pouvais ralentir le tempo le temps

je chantais à en ravir la paresse

comme autrefois,

comme autrefois
en douceur

rechercher la cadence
comme autrefois,

comme autrefois
lentement pour trouver résonance



si mon passé quelques fois m’est si apaisant

c’est qu’il recèle l’émoi d’un ailleurs distant


là-bas je savais que l’on peut sourire autrement


je chantais fou de joie, de tristesse



comme autrefois, comme autrefois

en douceur rechercher la cadence
comme autrefois,

comme autrefois
lentement pour trouver résonance

ENG:
When my thoughts go sometimes
To distant places
Where I once was
I see a land
a land beyond the great ocean
brief glimpses of joy, of tenderness
I can't forget the colors, the wind
the people, the serenity, the happiness of the moment
over there I could slow down the tempo of time
I would sing to the joy of idleness

as in days gone by, as in days gone by
gently in search of the cadence
as in days gone by, as in days gone by
slowly to find resonance


if my past is sometimes so soothing to me
it's because it conceals the stirrings of a distant elsewhere
there I knew that one could in a different way
i would sing crazy with joy, with sadness

as in days gone by, as in days gone by
gently in search of the cadence
as in days gone by, as in days gone by
slowly to find resonance