Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
Words & Music by Antonio Carlos Jobim; (English translation by Gene Lees)
Recorded by Tony Bennett, 1963


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Quiet nights of quiet stars, quiet chords from my guitar

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Floating on the silence that surrounds us.


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Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams, quiet walks by quiet streams,

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And a window looking on the mountains and the sea -- how lovely!
!


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

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Until the final flicker of life's ember.

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I, who was lost and lonely, believing life was only

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A bitter, tragic joke have found with you

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The meaning of existence, oh, my love.

(Last time)

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The meaning of existence, oh, my love.