Quiet Nights

Quiet nights of quiet stars

quiet chords from my guitar

floating on the silence that surrounds us



Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams

Quiet walks by quiet streams

and a window that looks out on Corcovado

Oh, how lovely



Quero a vida sempre assim (I want life to always be like this.)

Com vocé perto de mim (With you right next to me)

até o apagar da velha chama. ('till the love ends.)



E eu que era triste (And I who was sad)

Descrente deste mundo (Having lost faith in this world)

Ao encontra você eu conheci (I found you and then I knew)

o que é felicidade, meu amor (what happiness is, my love )



This is where I want to be

here with you so close to me

until the final flicker of life's ember.



I who was lost and lonely believing life was only

a bitter tragic joke, have found with you,

the meaning of existence, oh my love.