This article aims at performing an interpretive analysis of the song Sobre Todas as Coisas (About everything) by Brazilian Chico Buarque and Edu Lobo, originally recorded on the long play O Grande Circo Místico (1983). Departing from the idea of the song as a space that combines verbal text (the lyrics) and musical text (melody, harmony and rhythm) seen in mutual relation, I try to understand the correspondences between these two texts and contribute to the discursive construction of the feeling of love, that is the affection scenario in which an erotic narrator sings the sensual chant of his desire. Due to the relationship perceived between a Christian-based speech and some sensuality in the song Sobre Todas as Coisas, we also put in perspective the poem O Grande Circo Místico, published by Brazilian Jorge de Lima on A Túnica Inconsútil (1938), as well as references from the Holy Bible.
Brazilian popular music; verbal-musical analysis; Chico Buarque and Edu Lobo
