Slightly Out Of Tune (desafinado) Lyrics

Slightly Out Of Tune (desafinado) lyrics

Love is like a never ending melody, 

Poets have compared it to a symphony,


A symphony conducted by the lighting of the moon, 

But our song of
love is slightly out of tune . . . . 

  

Once your kisses raised me
to a fever pitch, 

Now the orchestration doesn't seem so rich, 

Seems to me you've changed the tune we used to sing, 

Like the bossa
nova love should swing . . . . 

  

We used to harmonize two souls
in perfect time, 

Now the song is different and the words don't even
rhyme, 

'Cause you forgot the melody our hearts would always croon, 

What good's a heart that's slightly out of tune? 

  

Tune your
heart with mine the way it used to be, 

Join with me in harmony and sing
a song of love, 

We're bound to get in tune again before too long, 

There'll be no Desafinado when your heart belongs to me completely 

Then you won't be slightly out of tune, you'll sing along with me! 

 


Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim 

with original lyrics by Newton
Mendonça, 1962 

English lyrics by Jon Hendricks and Jessie Cavanaugh