Rui Veloso — Calmaria song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Calmaria" by Rui Veloso.
Lyrics
Foi medonha a tempestade
Que a agulha quase enlouquecia
E era tal o negrume do céu
Que não havia noite nem dia
Já eu pensava na morte
Fez-se súbita acalmia
Que nos deixou à sorte
Sem vento na maresia
Relembrei velhos pilotos
Relatos destas andanças
Piores que certos maremotos
Às vezes só certas bonanças
Reparamos os danos nas velas
Que o vento havia de chegar
Mas foram passando os dias
E nós sem nada mais a inventar
E era medonha a calmaria
Segui vôo de albatroz
Fisguei peixe-voador
Cantei para ouvir a minha voz
Recapitulei cada amor
Li a noite constelada
Na folha do firmamento
Vi a várzea azul semeada
De águas sem movimento
A mando do capitão
Fizemos procissão
Missa e novena cantada
Pescamos um tubarão
E depois de o cegar no convés
Com ele fizemos tourada
Mas do vento de feição
É que ninguém sabia de nada
E era medonha a calmaria
Quase a dez dias de pasmo
No alto mar sem aragem
Com o sol tisnando a prumo
Pus fim à minha viagem
Tão farto de calmaria
Pus o pé na amurada
E ali me fui na lezíria
Que o mar se fez margem lavrada
Calentura, calentura, calentura
Lyrics translation
The storm was dreadful
That the needle almost went crazy
And such was the blackness of heaven
That there was no night nor Day
I already thought about death
There was a sudden lull
That left us lucky
No wind in the maresia
I remembered old pilots
Reports of these wanderings
Worse than certain tidal waves
Sometimes only certain bonanza
We repair the damage to the candles
That the wind would come
But the days went by
And we have nothing else to invent
And it was scary the calm
Follow albatross flight
I caught flying fish
I sang to hear my voice
I reviewed every love
I read The Starry Night
On the leaf of the firmament
I saw the Blue floodplain sown
Of water without movement
At the command of the captain
We made a procession
Mass and novena sung
We caught a shark
And after you blind him on the deck
With him we did bullfighting
But from the wind of feature
It's just that nobody knew anything.
And it was scary the calm
Almost ten days of astonishment
On the high seas without plowing
With the sun tisnando the plumb
I put an end to my journey
So tired of calm
I put my foot on the wall
And there I went in leziria
That the sea became a plowed shore
Hot, hot, hot