Catavento e Girassol lyrics in English?

Answer 1

Translating poetry is a lot like explaining art. Almost impossible to do well. The lyrics of Guinga is truly poetry filled with nuance and mood and not open to literal meanings. It requires a bit of poetic license. This is as much an evocation as translation.

Catavento E Girassol (Windmill and Sunflower)

By Guinga - Aldir Blanc

Inside my windmill, there exists what's outside your sunflower,

Between contained and opened wide

I ask for you sharp, and you laughed flat

You floating in space, I need time overall

I'm a suburban cat, you are coastal

I follow the signs I see you on skates

Coming down the wrong way of a one-way street late

My marching boots, macho intrusion,

You become a doormat not wanting confusion

Neither surrenders, we don't hear advice

I am you who goes away, sinking into the mirror inside

I am ingenious, you live between blade and wind

I stay within myself, you're beginning and end,

The insect and the flower

Is one for Mia Farrow, or the other Woody Allen?

When I whistle a serenade you dance Hawaiian

I'm as tennis in jeans, you're too much scarpin, soirée

When the s*** hits the fan, you curse en Anglais

Hey f*** you, bronha, nobody pokes nobody's eye

I am you who goes away, sinking into the mirror inside

The peace is at end in a motel of souls washed and past

I realize too late it's all for nothing and was never meant to last

In the days of carnaval, the disappointments grow

I go drink Cacique de Ramos, as you simply go

My windmill inside has the wide open wind of the Harpooner

Your sunflower has from the outside the hidden genius of the bloomer

I feel so nostalgic, you're contemporary of us

I think about everything I do, you are so spontaneous

One depends on the other to be different, to be completed here

You moving away has only brought you suffocating and near

You have a way of being green, I am red crimson dye

Together we go sinking into the mirror inside