Santana - Best Ballads [compilation] (1997) by Santana (보컬) on maniadb.com

Samba Pa Ti is a song that I wrote when we came back from Europe the very first time. I was up in my room looking out my window because I heard this sound. This cat blew a couple of notes on the saxophone in the back of the alley.

And when I looked out, he was trying to stay up on his feet. It looked like the whole world was moving around him. And he was trying to decide between putting his saxophone in his mouth and putting the bottle of booze from his back pocket into his mouth.

And I thought "he is a prisoner." He didn't know what to put in his mouth next - the horn or the bottle of booze, you know. And it just hit me. It really broke me down because he looked like all of us at one time or another.

And for some reason, i just heard these lyrics, "through every step in life you find freedom from within." And then I heard the melody.

It was one of the first songs that I felt really free, free enough to forget about anything. You just let it flow through you. And even though it's very simple, there's still a lot of emotion in it.

Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)

그리스 신화에선 제우스의 사랑을 받은 포니시아의 왕녀로
천문학적으로는 목성의 위성중 하나이며 유로파의 표면은 얼음이다.
목성의 4대 위성 가운데 이오 다음으로 목성에 가까우며 가장 작은 위성이다.
1610년 G.갈릴레이가 손수 만든 망원경을 사용해 발견했고
네덜란드 천문학자 마리우스에 의해 이름이 지어졌다.
에우로파라고도 하는데 이 이름은 그리스 신화에서
목성의 영어명인 주피터(제우스)와의 관계에서 유래되었다.
특히 " Europa " 는 기타의 명인 Carlos Santana와
그룹 Santana의 키보드 주자 Tom Coster가 함께 작곡한 곡으로
산타나의 곡중 가장 잘 알려진 곡이다.

'Got a black magic woman, 'got a black magic woman
I've got a black magic woman, 'got me so blind I can't see
That she's a black magic woman, she's try'n to make a devil out of me.

Turn your back on me baby, turn your back on me baby.
Yes, don't turn your back on me baby, Stop messin' 'round with your tricks.
Don't turn your back on me, baby, you just might pick up my magic sticks

'Got your spell on me baby, 'got your spell on me baby
Yes, you got your spell on me baby, turning my heart into stone
I need you so bad, magic woman, I can't leave you alone

From nowhere
Through a caravan
Around the campfire light
A lovely woman in motion
With hair as dark as night
Her eyes were like that
Of a cat in the dark
They hypnotize me with love


She was a gypsy woman
She was a gypsy woman


She danced around and round
To a guitar melody
From the fire her face
Was all aglow
How she enchanted me
Oh how I’d like to hold her near
And kiss and forever whisper in her ear


I love you gypsy woman


All through the caravan
She was dancing with all the men
Waiting for the rising sun
Everyone was having fun


I hate to see the lady go
Knowing she’ll never know
That I love her


That I love her


She danced around and round
To a guitar melody
From the fire her face
Was all aglow
How she enchanted me
Oh how I’d like to hold her near
And kiss and forever whisper in her ear

She has the innocence and vision of a child
How can I ever really know her?
We?re riding on a carousel
That?s running wild
Around in circles ?til it?s over
And every time we reach the end
We go around again ?cause
Chorus:
She can?t let go
And I don?t wanna tell her no
She can?t let go
And I don?t wanna tell her no
I see her starin?out the window at the rain
But she will never leave the fire
Sometimes it burns all night and covers up the pain
Sometimes it only leaves us tired
And every time we reach the end
We go around again ?cause
Repeat chorus

You are my river
Keep on flowing through
Filling my life
With all of you
You are the freedom
Iíve been searching for
Oh how I love you
Just for who you are
There will be hard times
Everyone must go through
Testing his love
Just to see if itís true
But the hard times will come
But they all pass away
I have seen the light
In my life today
Thatís why I love you
Just for who you are
You are my river.

Chorus:
Give me life, oh give me love
It’s all I need, It’s all I ask
I’ll give you life, I’ll give you love
That’s what I need to feel like this


Love was meant to be what you have been to me
Not just a runnin’ free
What am I gonna do to make my dreams come true
You’re all I need, I feel


(Repeat Chorus)

Angel I want to be one with you
Spread your wings and let me in
You know Ill always cherish the time we spent