Music Invasion; Myrra Malmberg's "How Insensitive"
>> Tuesday, March 24, 2009
For some reason this song popped up in my head and I've been quite obsessed about it. I always thought the song is a jazz classic but I didn't know about its bossa nova roots. Here is a version from Bossa Nova legend João Gilberto, I even got a copy of its lyrics in Portuguese but since I don't know the language I can only guess its meaning. So I'm posting the song sung by one Anna Myrra Malmberg with a more bossa nova feel, the blue feeling is kinda pretty.
How insensitive
I must have seemed
When he told me that he loved me?
How unmoved and cold
I must have seemed
When he told me so sincerely?
Why, he must have asked,
Did I just turn and stare in icy silence?
What was I to say?
What can you say
When a love affair is over?
Now he's gone away
And I'm alone
With a memory of his last look
Vague and drawn and sad
I see it still
All the heartbreak in his last look
How, he must have asked,
Did I just turn and stare in icy silence?
What was I to say?
What can you say
When a love affair is over?