Copabanana
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Amália Rodrigues - Estranha forma de vida (1965)
This is me singing today (lie). It is Portuguese Fado. I am singing this and Blues. (I will try very hard to stop myself from going to get more music.) Amalia Rodrigues is singing. Life, how it is strange. Or, a strange form of life. Is more or less the translation. Portuguese has a concept in it based upon the word, Saudades, which is untranslatable. Yearning, comes closest. It feels like heartbreak. Because sometimes we yearn for what is impossible. Irretrievably lost or that which we never had, or never could have.
I think that sometimes in life we need this concept. Like an envelope in a dresser drawer. A place to go and to take out or put back our longing....to know it has a place and even a name. I will speak for myself here: when I try too hard to control life, it is because I am fighting to not have to return to that envelope of heartbreak. Every life has it. Maybe this is when I end up off the plank with my son.
Instead, I think I will find this music. To remind me that a part of life is heartbreak. And this is how it is and has always been.
There is love. There is friendship. There is song and there is heartbreak.
I am sorry I am sad on your thread. But you helped me to feel better.
Thank you.
This is me singing today (lie). It is Portuguese Fado. I am singing this and Blues. (I will try very hard to stop myself from going to get more music.) Amalia Rodrigues is singing. Life, how it is strange. Or, a strange form of life. Is more or less the translation. Portuguese has a concept in it based upon the word, Saudades, which is untranslatable. Yearning, comes closest. It feels like heartbreak. Because sometimes we yearn for what is impossible. Irretrievably lost or that which we never had, or never could have.
I think that sometimes in life we need this concept. Like an envelope in a dresser drawer. A place to go and to take out or put back our longing....to know it has a place and even a name. I will speak for myself here: when I try too hard to control life, it is because I am fighting to not have to return to that envelope of heartbreak. Every life has it. Maybe this is when I end up off the plank with my son.
Instead, I think I will find this music. To remind me that a part of life is heartbreak. And this is how it is and has always been.
There is love. There is friendship. There is song and there is heartbreak.
I am sorry I am sad on your thread. But you helped me to feel better.
Thank you.
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