Translation of the song lyrics Viva A Vida - Emma

Viva A Vida (original)

Foto viva
Pra mim
Pra você
Que fala
Da melodia que falava do futuro
Que você imaginou
Do passado que você não viveu
Do passado que você
Danço com você
Cade você?
Cade você?
Foto viva
Ritmo do amor
Cade você?
O ritmo do amor
No passado que você
Que balança, balança
E ainda não viveu
Esse ritmo que me acalma vai levar
Levar você
Foto viva
Pra mim
Pra você
Que fala
Da melodia que falava do futuro
Que você imaginou
Do passado que você não viveu
Do passado que você
Danço com você

Viva A Vida (translation)

A living photograph—its breath a trembling light,
Bequeathed to my solitude,
Destined for you, the silent witness,
Whispering softly as wind through hollow reeds,
Of a melody murmuring the unborn dawn,
Where your mind once wandered beneath veils of hope,
From the yesterdays you never let your shadow cross,
From the yesterdays you—
I trace a dance with you, our steps entwined in dusk,
Where are you, mirage in a mirror’s heart?
Where are you, echo lost in a vanished hall?
A living photograph—memory’s pulse eloquent,
A rhythm spun from the slow-burning gold of love,
Where are you, dream drifting in the hush?
That pulse of love—
Within the yesterdays you—
That sway, that trembling swing of time’s old lamp,
And still you have not wandered through its dust,
This rhythm, balm turning storm to hush, will carry—
Carry you, as river bears the moon’s spent fire,
A living photograph—
Bestowed to my keeping,
Offered to your gaze,
That speaks—
Of a melody prophesying unrisen futures,
Which you conjured in the secret theater of thought,
From the past you never dared to inhabit,
From the yesterdays you—
I dance with you, in the afterimage of longing