Ela [English translation]

She feels the solitude of the eighth floor

Every single night at the sad dinnertime

There's only one cup, only one plate

And beside it there's only one fork

Everything is one in her small woman world

The hope arises in her life

She who dances and invites someone

To the elevator of the eighth floor

To the very first love of the eighth floor

She and any man

She fights against the weeping of love

Along with any man

She goes down and forgets the elevator

With any man

She reminds the life in the countryside

She waits for her siblings in her balcony

A set table, candle lights, songs...

She plays princess and king in the Carnival

She spends the Easter in peace with herself in the yard

In the cold days of June

The white laces in her fists. balloons...

And one day in the local theater

She is the Virgin in the navity scene of Christmas

She and any day

Laces, balcony, Easter, Christmas...

With any man

She fights against the common weeping

Alone once again

On the eighth floor where everything is one

On the eighth floor where everything is one

On the eighth floor where everything is

Laces, balcony, Easter, Christmas...

On the eighth floor where everything is one

She fights against the common weeping

On the eighth floor where everything is one

On the eighth floor...

On the eighth floor...

On the eighth floor...

• Artist:Elis Regina
• Album:Ela (1971)