Aquarela [English translation]

In a sheet of paper

I draw an yellow-coloured sun

And with five or six straight lines

I easily draw a castle

I run the pencil to countour my fingers

and I get myself a glove on the paper.

And if I draw the rain ,

By just stroking two dashes,

I easily get an umbrella

If a little drop of paint

drips on a blue portion of my draw

For an instant, I imagine it to be

a beautiful gull, flying in the sky

And she flies on and on

Contouring a huge line over the horizont,

From the north to the south.

And I'm flying along with her

Over Havai

Beijing or Istambul.

I paint a sailboat,

which is smoothly sailing away

There's so much of the sky and sea's immensity

into the blue-green colour

Through the clouds a beautiful airplane

in pink and granate is comming over

With its colours, it cheerfully tinges all around,

as it passes by and its lights blink vividly

With a bit of imagination,

I see it taking off, quietly and beautifully

And if you want

I can make it land

In any sheet of paper,

I draw a sail, leaving the quay,

With me and some of my friends in it

Drinking and having a good time, all in peace with life

From America to America*,

I can easily travel in a blink.

I just turn a compass around

and with a circle I draw the world .

A boy is walking on and on

as he reaches a wall

Over this wall, not too far from it,

the future is waiting for us

And the future is a spaceship

Which we try to drive.

But the future is always hurried and merciless.

There's no right time for it to come,

And without asking or warning us,

It just changes our lives

And then it beckons us

to cry or laugh together

Along this road, it's not our duty

to know or see what's comming to us

No one surely knows where it's heading us to

We're just going on the way

Crossing a beautiful footbridge

Painted in watercolour

which someday will fade after all

In a sheet of paper, I draw an yellow-coloured sun

(which will fade someday)

And with five or six straight lines I easily draw a castle

(which will fade someday)

I just turn a compass around

and with a circle I draw the world

(which will fade someday)

• Artist:Toquinho