Happy Birthday, Chico Buarque! (6)

7 songs by Chico Buarque in honor of his 77th birthday on June 19

Eu Te Amo

Written jointly with Tom Jobim for the 1981 film of the same name and appearing on Chico’s 1980 “Vida” (“Life”) album,
“Eu Te Amo” (“I Love You”) is another formal masterpiece (triplets with predominantly decasyllabic verses with an aabccb rhyme scheme),
this one about the love’s joy/communion and fear/loss of individuality.
Listen to “Eu Te Amo”

“I Love You”
Ah, if we’ve lost our sense of time
If together we’ve thrown everything out
Tell me now how am I supposed to leave

If when I met you, I started to dream, I went crazy
I broke with the world, burned my bridges
Tell me where I can still go

If we, in the mischief of our eternal nights,
Have mixed our legs together so thoroughly
Tell me what legs I should follow

If you spilled our luck all over the ground
If in the mess of your heart
My blood got the wrong vein and got lost

How, if in the chaos of the closet
My jacket intertwines your dress
And my shoe still steps on yours

How, if we love each other like two pagans
Your breasts are still in my hands
Explain to me how I’m supposed to leave

I don’t think you’re making a fool of yourself
I gave you my eyes for you to take care of
Now tell me how I’m supposed to leave