If Anything Can Happen

I came across this beautiful song on a podcast I've been listening to. The podcast is called Café Brasil, and the song is "Se Tudo Pode Acontecer," by Arnoldo Antunes, one of the biggest Brazilian musicians of the 1980s. I've given the English a go below. (Also, the bassist in the video looks freaking awesome.)

If anything can happen

If all things are possible

For a desert to bloom

Or a heavy cloud not to rain

Then it's possible someone could appear

And that that someone could be you

A comet could come down to earth

A bolt of lightning in the darkness

The both of us walking hand in hand, somehow

I want this moment to last my whole life

And even longer, in the morning beyond

If it were you and me

If it happened that way

And some more of my vocabulary

1. a grana - slang for "money"
2. bravo - furious
3. a preguiça - laziness
4. a seiva - sap (from a tree)
5. o varejo - retail
6. entre aspas - "quote unquote"
7. mole - soft
8. o caldo - broth
9. sobrar - to remain, e.g. Só sobrou pele "There was only skin left"
10. a gaze - gauze
11. o lazer - leisure
12. lambar - to lick
13. a acerola - acerola...?
14. a tampa - lid
15. resgatar - to save, e.g. Eu resgatei a forminha "I saved the ice tray"
16. encher - to fill
17. o cunhado - brother-in-law
18. arrumar - to come up with, e.g. Ele consegiu arrumar uma mulher "He got some woman to marry him."
19. Tá?! - Capice?!
20. a broa - maize flour cake or fat woman
21. cacheado - curly