A Mão Do Tempo Lyrics in English Eduardo Costa
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song A Mão Do Tempo by Eduardo Costa from Portuguese to English.
Na solidão do meu peito
In the loneliness of my chest
O meu coração reclama
My heart complains
Por amar quem 'tá distante
For loving someone who's far away
E viver com quem não ama
And living with someone I don't love
Eu sei que você também
I know that you also
Da mesma sina se queixa
Complain about the same fate
Querendo viver comigo
Wanting to live with me
Mas o destino não deixa
But destiny doesn't allow it
Que bom se a gente pudesse
How good if we could
Arrancar do pensamento
Tear from our thoughts
E sepultar a saudade
And bury the longing
Na noite do esquecimento
In the night of forgetting
Mas a sombra da lembrança
But the shadow of memory
É igual à sombra da gente
Is like our own shadow
Pelos caminhos da vida
Through the paths of life
Ela está sempre presente
It is always present
Vai lembrança e não me faça
Go, memory, and don't make me
Querer um amor impossível
Want an impossible love
Se o lembrar nos faz sofrer
If remembering makes us suffer
Esquecer é preferível
Forgetting is preferable
Do que adianta querer bem
What's the use of loving
Alguém que já foi embora
Someone who's already left
É como amar uma estrela
It's like loving a star
Que foge ao romper da aurora
That flees at the break of dawn
Arranque da nossa mente
Tear from our minds
Horas distantes vividas
Distant hours lived
Longas estradas que um dia
Long roads that one day
Foram por nós percorridas
Were traveled by us
Apague com a mão do tempo
Erase with the hand of time
Os nossos rastros deixados
Our traces left behind
Como flores que secaram
Like flowers that withered
No chão do nosso passado
On the ground of our past
Arranque da nossa mente
Tear from our minds
Horas distantes vividas
Distant hours lived
Longas estradas que um dia
Long roads that one day
Foram por nós percorridas
Were traveled by us
Apague com a mão do tempo
Erase with the hand of time
Os nossos rastros deixados
Our traces left behind
Como flores que secaram
Like flowers that withered
No chão do nosso passado
On the ground of our past
Apague com a mão do tempo
Erase with the hand of time
Os nossos rastros deixados
Our traces left behind
Como flores que secaram
Like flowers that withered
No chão do nosso passado
On the ground of our past
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Jose Dias Nunes, Jose Fortuna
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sepultar — to bury
Sepultar means "to bury" and it's a strong, evocative verb that isn't commonly found in everyday song lyrics. It carries a sense of finality and deep emotional weight.
In "A Mão do Tempo," the singer uses sepultar metaphorically when he wishes to "sepultar a saudade na noite do esquecimento" (bury the longing in the night of forgetting). This powerful imagery conveys a desperate desire to rid oneself of the pain of longing for a lost love, making it a memorable and impactful word.
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