Laura Pausini e Gilberto Gil - Seamisai / Sei que me amavas

I absolutely LOVE this song. I have Italian ancestry but I think I have a Brazilian soul. Laura Pausini is nice but Gilberto Gil has such a sensual, sexy, enticing voice, he gets right into my romantic groove. I'm including the lyrics and translation as I am studying Italian....The video also has the Portuguese lyrics which have beautiful sound.
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Seamisai

Laura Pausini 

Songwriters: Alfredo Rapetti / Gil Gilberto / Giuseppe Carella

Seamisai lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc

Non dire no                                        Don't say no  
Che ti conosco e lo so cosa pensi      I know you and I know what you think             
Non dirmi no                                      Don't tell me no
È già da un po'                                   It's already been a some time
Che non ti sento parlare d'amore      That I haven't heard you talk about love or
Usare il tempo al futuro per noi        Using the future tense for us 
 

E non serve ripetere ancora               And there is no use in repeating again

che tu mi vuoi                                      that you love me

Perché ora non c'è quel tuo sorriso    Because now your smile for me

al mattino per me                                 in the morning has gone   
Perché non mi dai più niente di te       Because you give me nothing of yourself now

Se ami sai quando tutto finisce             If you love, you know when it all ends 
Se ami sai come un brivido triste         If you love you know like a sad shudder
Come in un film dalle scene già viste   Like a movie one's already seen   

Che se ne va, oh no                               That fades away, oh no 

 
Sai sempre quando una storia              You always know when a story

si è chiusa                                              has ended
E non si può più inventare una scusa    And one can no longer invent an excuse
Se ami prendi le mie mani                      If you love take my hands
Perché prima di domani finirà               Because before tomorrow it will end 

E non si può                                            And you can't 

chiudere gli occhi e far finta di niente    close your eyes and pretend there is nothing  

Come fai tu quando resti con me            Like you do when you lie by my side


E non trovi il coraggio di dirmi              And you don't have the courage 

                                                                 to tell me

"che cosa c'è"                                          "what's going on"

Sarà dentro di me come                           Inside me it will be

una notte d'inverno perché                       like a winter night because 
Sarà da oggi in poi senza di te                 It will be from now on I'm without you

 
Se ami sai quando tutto finisce                 If you love, you know when it all ends
Se ami sai come un brivido triste             If you love, you know like a sad shudder 
Come in un film dalle scene già viste       Like a movie one's already seen
Che se ne va, oh no                                   That fades away, oh no

Sai bene quando inizia il dolore                You really know when the pain begins
E arriva la fine più una storia d'amore      It comes at the very end of a love story 
Se ami prendi le mie mani                          If you love, take my hands
Perché prima di domani                             Because before tomorrow
Te ne andrai                                                You will go away

Non sarai                                                    You will not be
Qui con me                                                  Here with me

If you love you know

Versions: #1#2#3#4

Don’t say “no”, as I know you and I know

what you think

don’t tell me “no”.

It’s been some time now that I haven’t heard you

talking of love

using the future tense for us

and there’s no use in repeating to me again that you love me

because now that smile of yours in the mornings

has disappeared

because you don’t give me anything of yourself anymore.

If you love you know when everything is over

if you love you know, like a sad shudder

like a film whose scenes you’ve seen before

and that it’s going away now, oh no!

You always know when a story has concluded

and it’s not possible to make up more excuses

if you love, take my hands

as before tomorrow arrives

it’ll be over.

And it’s not possible

to close your eyes and pretend nothing happens

as you try and do when you’re by my side

and you don’t have the courage to tell me what’s going on

inside me it’ll be like a winter

night because

from now on I’ll be without you

If you love you know when everything is over

if you love you know, like a sad shudder

like a film whose scenes you’ve seen before

and that it’s going away now, oh no!

You know very well when the pain sets on

and the end of a love story has arrived

but if you love, take my hands

as before tomorrow arrives

you’ll leave, you won’t be

here with me

https://lyricstranslate.com

English translation

A A

If you love you know

Versions: #1#2#3#4

Don’t say “no”, as I know you and I know

what you think

don’t tell me “no”.

It’s been some time now that I haven’t heard you

talking of love

using the future tense for us

and there’s no use in repeating to me again that you love me

because now that smile of yours in the mornings

has disappeared

because you don’t give me anything of yourself anymore.

If you love you know when everything is over

if you love you know, like a sad shudder

like a film whose scenes you’ve seen before

and that it’s going away now, oh no!

You always know when a story has concluded

and it’s not possible to make up more excuses

if you love, take my hands

as before tomorrow arrives

it’ll be over.

And it’s not possible

to close your eyes and pretend nothing happens

as you try and do when you’re by my side

and you don’t have the courage to tell me what’s going on

inside me it’ll be like a winter

night because

from now on I’ll be without you

If you love you know when everything is over

if you love you know, like a sad shudder

like a film whose scenes you’ve seen before

and that it’s going away now, oh no!

You know very well when the pain sets on

and the end of a love story has arrived

but if you love, take my hands

as before tomorrow arrives

you’ll leave, you won’t be

here with me

https://lyricstranslate.com

English translation

A A

If you love you know

Versions: #1#2#3#4

Don’t say “no”, as I know you and I know

what you think

don’t tell me “no”.

It’s been some time now that I haven’t heard you

talking of love

using the future tense for us

and there’s no use in repeating to me again that you love me

because now that smile of yours in the mornings

has disappeared

because you don’t give me anything of yourself anymore.

If you love you know when everything is over

if you love you know, like a sad shudder

like a film whose scenes you’ve seen before

and that it’s going away now, oh no!

You always know when a story has concluded

and it’s not possible to make up more excuses

if you love, take my hands

as before tomorrow arrives

it’ll be over.

And it’s not possible

to close your eyes and pretend nothing happens

as you try and do when you’re by my side

and you don’t have the courage to tell me what’s going on

inside me it’ll be like a winter

night because

from now on I’ll be without you

If you love you know when everything is over

if you love you know, like a sad shudder

like a film whose scenes you’ve seen before

and that it’s going away now, oh no!

You know very well when the pain sets on

and the end of a love story has arrived

but if you love, take my hands

as before tomorrow arrives

you’ll leave, you won’t be

here with me

https://lyricstranslate.com

Give Us Our Daily Bread

One thing about not being able to sleep past 2 AM is that I get to make dough.

Rather than lay in bed and contemplate the ceiling or try to rub my sore back (Am I too old to be shoveling snow?) I finally got up, got dressed and went to my office - the kitchen.

Leon had mentioned cinnamon rolls...actually a co-worker of his was asking, so I woke up thinking about cinnamon rolls.

One not so good thing about not having a "recipe" is that when something comes out exceptionally well, you have no way of replicating it exactly.

My cinnamon rolls this morning were quite exceptional. I think I used a teaspoon of yeast in 1/2 cup water and 1/3 cup sugar; let that set for a few minutes, added a teaspoon of salt and a cup of gently warmed milk (2%) a half stick to 2/3 stick of butter, softened and enough flour (?) to make a soft dough. Beat it up, kneaded it gently and let it rise for an hour.

Then I formed the rolls by making a "rope" about 6-8 inches long, dipped each in melted butter and dredged them in cinnamon sugar, formed a spiral and placed them on a baking sheet and into a 375 degree oven for 20+ minutes.

After they cooled just a bit I frosted them with a thick confectioner sugar/water/orange extract mix.

Exceptional!



Then it was on to the bread. Actually I started the bread dough while the cinnamon rolls were rising.

I will say I am getting better every time I make bread. This morning I used 3 1/2 large coffee mugs of water, 2 teaspoons of yeast, a little sugar, salt and I mixed in a cup of whole wheat pastry flour with the King Arthur all purpose.

Those bread snobs who weigh everything: the water, the yeast, the flour. And they calculate the percentages of water to flour to yeast and salt. I have a kitchen scale but I think I would break it if I weighed my ingredients.

Besides, I've watched old Italian women on YouTube make bread in a large trough which probably holds twenty-five pounds of flour.

I think they take turns making bread for the entire neighborhood in one huge wood-fired oven that is prepared ahead and heated to probably over 900 degrees. It holds maybe 30 or more loaves of bread.

I don't have a wood-fired oven, but I heat mine to 475 degrees and place a large roasting pan with about 1/2 inch of water on the bottom of the oven and allow that to heat to steam point.

I brush my loaves with water and sprinkle on sesame seeds (cuz I like the flavor they impart) before taking them to the oven. The bread is done in 20 to 25 minutes.

Exceptional! If I do say so.

Insomnia bread. I beats tossing and turning.

Yesterday's Snow Will Be Tomorrow's Mud

How many times have I mentioned that one reason we moved to New Mexico was to get away from the snow in New England. Yesterday it found us.

We got hammered in our little village,but of course there was no snow at all in most of Albuquerque and friends in Santa Fe said they only had about an inch, most of which was gone by noon. 

Our share was 6 to 8 inches and will be around for a while. 

Then will come the MUD. I don't mind hiking with the dog in snow, but MUD here is another thing altogether. It's more like concrete, or should I say, more in keeping with the locale, adobe.  

Another day for that, but for now we're enjoying the white stuff.

 

 

For more pics see Benni's Blog