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Welcome to the most romantic lift ride you will ever take! In A Canção Do Elevador, Portuguese singer-songwriter Afonso Dubraz turns an everyday apartment block into a stage for a playful love story: the narrator lives on the ground floor, secretly admiring the woman on the first floor, and the building’s elevator becomes their private theater of glances, rising floors, and rising temperatures. Each press of a button brings them closer, clothes metaphorically slipping while the cabin climbs, capturing that thrilling mix of anticipation and shyness we feel when love is literally just one floor away. Yet despite the closeness, a ceiling and some bad luck keep them apart, echoing the bittersweet humor of trying to bridge small but stubborn gaps. Dubraz’s lyrics wrap this flirtatious cat-and-mouse game in upbeat melodies, reminding us that sometimes the simplest journeys—just a few meters up—can carry the biggest dreams.

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