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I Can't Stop Loving You

Ray Charles - Composição: Dor Gibson

(I can't stop loving you)
I've made up my mind
To live in memory of the lonesome times
(I can't stop wanting you)

It's useless to say
So I'll just live my life in dreams of yesterday
(Dreams of yesterday)
Those happy hours that we once knew

Tho' long ago, they still make me blue
They say that time heals a broken heart
But time has stood still since we've been apart

(I can't stop loving you)
I've made up my mind
To live in memory of the lonesome times
(I can't stop wanting you)

It's useless to say
So I'll just live my life in dreams of yesterday
(Those happy hours)
Those happy hours
(That we once knew)
That we once knew

(Tho' long ago)
Tho' long ago
(Still make me blue)
Still ma-a-a-ake me blue

(They say that time)
They say that time
(Heals a broken heart)
Heals a broken heart
(But time has stood still)
Time has stood still
(Since we've been apart)
Since we've been apart

(I can't stop loving you)
I said I made up my mind
To live in memory of the lonesome times
(I can't stop wanting you)
It's useless to say
So I'll just live my life of dreams of yesterday
(Of yesterday)

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Canções sempre nos marcam: uma viagem, um fato, uma pessoa, uma época, um amor adolescente. Quando menos esperamos, ao ouvir uma música, um filme se passa em nossa cabeça. E as recordações aparecem para nos dizerem "olha, era você", "veja, estou ainda com você, mesmo que só nas lembranças." I can't stop loving you de Ray Charles é uma dessas músicas que, sempre ao escutá-la, as lembranças aparecem: lembranças adolescentes, de uma época sem preocupações, de filmes românticos e jovens estudantes brincando, rindo, tagarelando. Tempo feliz.

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