Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)

 

Lyrics by:  Gene Lees

Music by:  Antonio Carlos Jobim

With Antonio Carlos Jobim

Arranged by:  Claus Ogerman

Originally made famous by: Tony Bennett

Label:  Reprise Records

Recorded:  January 31, 1967

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Quiet nights of quiet stars quiet chords from my guitar

Floating on the silence that surrounds us.

Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams quiet walks by quiet streams

And a window looking on the mountains and the sea, how lovely

This is where I want to be here with you so close to me

Until the final flicker of life's ember.

I who was lost and lonely believing love was only

A bitter tragic joke, have found with you, the meaning of existence, oh my love.