After posting a song from Chico Buarque’s Ópera do Malandro last week, somehow I felt like posting another song by him, so here is one of my favorites: ‘Eu te amo’, co-written with Tom Jobim (Jobim melody, Buarque lyrics), from his 1980 album Vida. It is an ultra-sad, ultra-mellow song, so you have to be in the right mood to listen to it; yet another heartbreaking break-up song. But for whatever reason, I loved this song already as a kid in the 1980s (I had the habit of listening to my parents’ records from fairly early on). The best thing about this song is the text, one of Chico’s best lyrics in my opinion, but here again something that will be ‘lost in translation’ for most of you… My favorite line: “What if in the mess of your heart, my blood missed the [right] vein and got lost”.
I’m posting two versions of the song: the original one, a duet with singer Telma Costa, and a later version with Tom Jobim at the piano, and singer Paula Morelenbaum doing the female voice.
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