Mar de Canal

Mar de canal bô é carambolente
Bô carambola-me nha casamente
Mar de Canal bô carambola-me nha casamente

Oh mar,oh mar qu'zê qu'm fazê-be
'M passá na bô
Bô respinga na mi
Oh mar,oh mar qu'zê qu'm fazê-be
'M passá na bô
Bô respinga na mi

Mar bendito dixa-me pidi-be um favor
Levá mantenha pa gente di nha terra
Mar bendito dixa-me pidi-be um favor
Levá mantenha pa gente di nha terra

Oh mar,oh mar qu'zê qu'm fazê-be
'M passá na bô
Bô respinga na mi
Oh mar,oh mar qu'zê qu'm fazê-be
'M passá na bô
Bô respinga na mi

Cesária Évora (letra de Fernando Andrade)

esboço sem quadro

“Nunca se pode saber o que se deve querer porque só se tem uma vida que não pode ser comparada com vidas anteriores nem rectificada em vidas posteriores. (...) É o que faz com que a vida pareça sempre um esquisso. Mas nem «esquisso» é a palavra certa (...) o esquisso que a nossa vida é, não é esquisso de nada, é um esboço sem quadro.”

Milan Kundera (in A Insustentável Leveza do Ser)

Stalker

happiness is dangerous

Happiness was a day at a pool
in the grass ringed round
with trees up to the sky

here I was god’s and my
grandpa’s lad – both died,
happiness is dangerous

in the evening the pool has lain down
so mirror-smooth that sky, trees and grass
repeat themselves below the ground

fear and longing both ask me
to come back

Rutger Kopland (Aan de vijver)

O Coelacanto (passos em volta de)

Herberto Helder

Day is Done

When the day is done
Down to earth then sinks the sun
Along with everything that was lost and won
When the day is done

When the day is done
Hope so much your race will be all run
Then you find you jumped the gun
Have to go back where you begun
When the day is done

When the night is cold
Some get by but some get old
Just to show life's not made of gold
When the night is cold

When the bird has flown
Got no-one to call your own
Got no place to call your home
When the bird has flown

When the game's been fought
Newspaper blown across the court
Lost much sooner than you would have thought
Now the game's been fought

When the party's through
Seems so very sad for you
Didn't do the things you meant to do
Now there's no time to start anew
Now the party's through

When the day is done
Down to earth then sinks the sun
Along with everything that was lost and won
When the day is done

Nick Drake (do álbum Five Leaves Left)