Clarice [English translation]

There are many people

Erased by time

On the papers of this memory

That so little remained for me

White churches

Light moons on the balcony

Gardens of dreams and cirandas

Brights rockets in the air

What a mystery Clarice has

What a mystery Clarice has

To keep herself so steady, in the heart

Clarice was brunette

As the mornings are brunettes

Was small in the way

Of being almost nobody

Walked with us paths

Of fruits and little birds

But never wanted undress

Between the boys and the fishes

Between the boys and the fishes

Between the boys and the fishes

From the river, from the river

What a mystery Clarice has

What a mystery Clarice has

To keep herself so steady, in the heart

She was afraid of the cold

Fear of haunting

A body that did not show

Made of guesses

The buttons always closed

Clarice had the modesty

Of convent and procession

I ask the mystery

What a mystery Clarice has

To keep herself so steady, in the heart

Soldier salutes

The Colonel Reverence

The priest did penance

Three novenas and a thirteen

But Clarice

She was the innocence

Never showed herself to nobody

Model of the legends was made

Model of the legends was made

From the legends told us by the grandparents

What a mystery Clarice has

What a mystery Clarice has

To keep herself so steady, in the heart

Have to one day

Dawn and Clarice

Watched my departure

Crying she asked for souvenirs

And seeing the boat move away from Amaralina

Desperately beautiful, sobbing and slowly

And slowly undressed the brunette body

And between all presents

Until her love vanished

Stayed in the goodbye crying and naked

So that I could have it all

All the time that existed

What a mystery Clarice has

What a mystery Clarice has

To keep herself so steady, in the heart

• Artist:Clara Nunes