Honolulu Mailman - Vivo Sonhando / Dreamer (Live at California Jazz Conservatory)

💘 “One is to dream, two is loving you.”

Performed Vivo Sonhando (Dreamer) in Portuguese and English tonight with amazing jazz pianist Ben Flint and the band. This is such a dreamy song that I feel like a floating cloud when singing it! ☁️

My vocal coach always joked that the easiest way to write a love letter is to simply swipe some lines from Jobim and hit translate, which is so true. Sorry, ChatGPT, but for love letters, I'm sticking with the bossa nova master himself!

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LYRICS

Vivo sonhando, sonhando mil horas sem fim
Tempo em que vou perguntando, se gostas de mim
Tempo de falar em estrelas
Falar de um mar, de um céu assim
Falar do bem que se tem, mas você não vem, não vem

Você não vindo, não vindo a vida tem fim
Gente se rindo, falando, zombando de mim
E eu a falar em estrelas, mar, amor, luar
Pobre de mim que só sei te amar

Why are my eyes always full of this vision of you
Why do I dream silly dreams that I fear won't come true
I long to show you the stars
Caught in the dark of the sea
I long to speak of my love but you don't come to me

So I go on asking if maybe one day you'll care
I tell my sad little dreams to the soft evening air
I am quite hopeless it seems, two things I know how to do
One is to dream
Two is loving you