Lua e Flor
José Augusto Lyrics

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Eu amava como amava algum cantor
De qualquer clichê, de cabaré, de lua e flor
Eu sonhava como a feia na vitrine
Como carta que se assine em vão.

Eu amava como amava um sonhador
Sem saber por quê
E amava ter no coração

A certeza ventilada de poesia
De que o dia não amanhece, não.

Eu amava como amava um pescador
Que se encanta mais com a rede que com o mar

Eu amava como jamais poderia
Se soubesse como te encontrar.

Overall Meaning

These lyrics are from José Augusto's song "Lua e Flor" and they speak to the singer's experience with love. He loved like a singer who falls in love with the clichés of love, whether that be in a cabaret, under the moon and the flowers. He dreamt like an unattractive object displayed in a store window, like a letter that is signed but to no avail. He loved like a dreamer who doesn't know why, but he carried in his heart the certainty of poetry, the notion that the day doesn't begin.

The singer then compares his love to that of a fisherman who is more enchanted with the fishing net than with the ocean itself. He loved like he never could have if he knew how to find the person he was meant to love. These lyrics illustrate the universal experience of searching for love and the confusion that can come with it, as the singer struggles with feeling as though he is searching blindly for love.

Line by Line Meaning

Eu amava como amava algum cantor
I loved like any singer did

De qualquer clichê, de cabaré, de lua e flor
From any cliché, dive bar, moon and flower

Eu sonhava como a feia na vitrine
I dreamed like the ugly one in the storefront

Como carta que se assine em vão.
Like a letter signed in vain.

Eu amava como amava um sonhador
I loved like a dreamer did

Sem saber por quê
Without knowing why

E amava ter no coração
And loved having in my heart

A certeza ventilada de poesia
The airy certainty of poetry

De que o dia não amanhece, não.
That the day never dawns

Eu amava como amava um pescador
I loved like a fisherman did

Que se encanta mais com a rede que com o mar
Who is more enchanted by the net than by the sea