Alice no país dos matraquilhos [English translation]

Mother out, (in what avenue?)

Eyes that follow, pay, eat her

Father in, licking the wound

With which unemployment marks a man

And the brother in the barracks

Bringing a shine out of the weapons

And Alice in the cafe

A resident of the land of table football

In the class of the repeaters

There will be another absence today

Alice clenches her teeth

Seeing the ball that rebounds in the air

She couldn't care less about the exam

She couldn't care less about the school

Holds up against the wire

The player never falls when going for the ball

Alice in the land of table football is more

Than in the neighborhood she lives in, wobbling

There is also Leonor

Freed from prison a few months ago

They say it's out of love

That she looks for Alice sometimes

Rests her hand on her face

Protects her from danger

Alice doesn't even notice

She's traveled to the land of table football

And the brother in the barracks

Staggers between drink and drugs

The sergeant is on his back

The one that compares the war to hunting

For a long time now he's known

That he is another player

Copper soldier

A player in the land of generals

Alice in the land of table football is more

Than in the neighborhood she lives in, wobbling

When one falls in the mud

Nobody stops to help us up

Alice! The father complains

Your mother hasn't come to have dinner

And the insults, night out

Unravel in succession

Alice never cries

She falls asleep in the land of table football

And the mother at the "bar of love"

Passes the time in small talk

Waiting for her protector

And for her body to stick to his finally

It's not that she doesn't recall

The ones she left at home

But behold the Ford arrives

And inside comes her peacock with a ring on its wing

Alice in the land of table football is more

Than in the neighborhood she lives in, wobbling

Then comes into the cafe

A boy with a helmet in hand

He stays standing there

Scribbles on a piece of paper

And Alice reads, surprise

Sentences that are fuses

"How is Your Highness,

The Queen of the Land of Table Football?"

"Are you still the king?

Could it be that you have come to my rescue?"

"In reality, I don't know anymore

For so many years I've been in exile."

"Up for a challenge?"

"You shoot first"

"Life is hanging by a thread

For whoever is a prisoner of this neighborhood"

The cafe that was there before

Is a shop with an air of modernity

And never did anyone else know

(apart from Leonor) about Alice

"Here goes, Leonor

the photo of my two sons

If you look closer

They look kind of like, I don't know, table football men"

Alice in the land of table football is more

Than in the neighborhood she lives in, wobbling

• Artist:Cristina Branco
• Album:Alegria