Marisa Monte, born July 1, 1967

Source: Pablo Escobar, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

“Amor I Love You” (“Love I Love You” - or maybe “Love Eu Te Amo”?) was co-written by Marisa Monte and Carlinhos Brown for her 2000 album, “Memórias, Crônicas e Declarações de Amor” (“Memories, Stories, and Declarations of Love”). The spoken part of the song (spoken by Arnaldo Antunes on Marisa’s version near the end and by Carlinhos himself at the beginning of his version) is from the realist novel Primo Basílio by Eça de Queirós.

Listen to Marisa’s original version
Listen to Carlinhos Brown’s version

“Love I Love You”
Let me say that I love you
Let me think about you
This calms me, it warms my soul
This helps me to live

Today I told the walls
Things from my heart
I strolled through time
I walked through the hours
More than I go through the passion

It’s a senseless mirror
If you want love, stay here

Let me say that I love you
Let me like you
This calms me, warms my soul
This helps me live

Now my chest soars
I live in constant joy
It’s love who is here

Amor, I love you
Amor, I love you
Amor, I love you
Amor, I love you

[spoken]
I had sighed
I had kissed the paper devotedly
It was the first time that those sentimentalities
Had been written to you
And their pride swelled
With the amorous heat emanating from them
Like a parched body
That stretches out in a warm bath
Felt an increase in esteem for itself
And it seemed like it finally entered
Into a superiorly interesting existence
Where every hour had its different charm
Each step led to an ecstasy
And the soul was covered with a radiant luxury of feelings