Samba de benção [English translation]

It is better to be happy than to be sad

Happiness is the best thing there is

It is like this, the light of the heart

But to make a beautiful samba

It is necessary a mouthful of sadness

A mouthful of sadness

Otherwise you can’t make samba, no

Otherwise, it is like loving a woman who is beautiful and nothing else

What else? A woman needs to be

Anything other than a beauty

Anything including sadness

Anything including what she cries about

Anything including what she feels wistful about

A sweetness of mangled love

A beauty that comes from the sadness of knowing herself a woman

Made just to love

To suffer for her love

And to be just forgiveness

Making a samba is no joke

Whoever makes a samba is not because of a coincidence

A good samba is a form of prayer

Because samba is a sadness which acts like a balance

And sadness always has a hope,

Of someday no longer being sad

Made for the people who go around

Any which way skipping through life

Be careful, partner!

Life is to be valued

And don’t fool yourself, no

There is only one

Two maybe if it’s good

No one will tell me that there is

Without proving, well justified

With a certainty that passes through the registry of heaven

And signed underneath: God

With a verified signature!

Life is not about kidding around, friend

Life is the art of encounters

Even though there might be so many miss-encounters in life

There always is a woman waiting

With eyes full of tenderness

And hands full of forgiveness

Add a little of love to your life

Like you do with your samba

Add a little love to your cadence

And you’ll see no one in the world can outdo

The beauty that samba has, no

Because samba was born in Bahia

And if today it is white in its poetry

If today it is white in its poetry**

It is very black in its heart