Only a Dream in Rio - Milton Nascimento

A Terra é minha mãe

O mar é o meu chão

O verde é a luz

Sorrindo em meu olhar

Pois eu digo, é mesmo um sonho o Rio

Tudo será como deve ser

Quiero estar cont você lá

Eu garanto, é um lugar diferente

A minha gente carrega uma cruz

Mas tem força p’ra mudar

Strange taste of a tropical fruit

Romantic language of the Portuguese

Melody on a wooden flute

Samba floating in the Summer breeze

Float on

It’s alright you can stay asleep

You can close your eyes

You can trust the people of Paradise

To call your keeper

And to tender your goodbyes

Oh, what a night

Wonderful one in a million

Frozen fire Brazilian

Oh, Holy Southern Cross

Later on take me way downtown

In a tin can

I can’t come down from the bandstand

I’m never thrown for such a loss

When they say

O lugar de onde eu vim

Brota no coração

O lugar onde eu nasci

Está no mundo e em mim

O lugar que a gente sonhar

Pode existir, existirá

Vive em nós e viverá

Enquanto houver canção

Caught in the rays of the rising sun

On the run from the soldier’s gun

Shouting out loud from

The angry crowd

The mild, the wild and the hungry child

I’ll tell you it’s more than

A dream in Rio

I was there on the very day

Dói demais o coração

E era mais

Mais do que nossas vozes

Mais do que o nosso rosto

Mais do que a luz do olhar

But it’s more than the shining eye

(Mais do que a luz do olhar)

More than the steaming green

(Mais do que o verdejar)

More than the hidden hills

(Tudo o que não se viu)

More than the concrete Christ

(Mais do que o Redentor)

More than a distant land

(Mais do que a Terra Mãe)

Over the shining sea

(Mais do que o céu e o mar)

More than a hungry child

(A fome a nos doer)

More like another time

(O tempo a nos curtir)

Born of a million years

(Mais do que um milhão)

More than a million years

(De anos pra sonhar)

The Earth is my mother

The sea is my ground

The green is light

Smiling in my eyes

Well, I say, it's really a dream, Rio

Everything will be as it should be

I want to be with you there

I guarantee it, it's a different place

My people carry a cross

But you have the strength to change

Strange taste of a tropical fruit

Romantic language of the Portuguese

Melody on a wooden flute

Samba floating in the Summer breeze

float on

It's alright you can stay asleep

You can close your eyes

You can trust the people of Paradise

To call your keeper

And to tender your goodbyes

Oh, what a night

Wonderful one in a million

Frozen fire Brazilian

Oh Holy Southern Cross

Later on take me way downtown

In a tin can

I can't come down from the bandstand

I'm never thrown for such a loss

When they say

The place I came from

It sprouts in the heart

The place where I was born

It's in the world and in me

The place we dream of

There may be, there will be

It lives in us and will live

As long as there is song

Caught in the rays of the rising sun

On the run from the soldier's gun

shouting out loud from

The angry crowd

The mild, the wild and the hungry child

I'll tell you it's more than

A dream in Rio

I was there on the very day

My heart hurts too much

And it was more

More than our voices

More than our face

More than the light of the gaze

But it's more than the shining eye

(More than the light of the gaze)

More than the steaming green

(More than greening)

More than the hidden hills

(Everything that was not seen)

More than the concrete Christ

(More than the Redeemer)

More than a distant land

(More than Mother Earth)

Over the shining sea

(More than the sky and the sea)

More than a hungry child

(Hunger makes us hurt)

More like another time

(The time to enjoy ourselves)

Born of a million years

(More than one million)

More than a million years

(Of years to dream)