Águas de Março [English translation]

It's stick, it's stone

It's the end of the road

It's a rest of stump

It's a little alone...

It's a shard of glass

It is life, it's the sun

It is night, it is death

It's the snare, it's the fishhook...

It's the peroba1 of the country

It's the knot in the wood

Caingá2, A lamp3

It's the matita-pereira4...

It's wind-resistant wood

Falls of the ravine

It's the profound mystery

It's the you wish or you don't...

It's the wind blowing

It's the end of the slope

It's the beam, it's the span

The Cumeeira Festival5...

It's the rain raining

It's riverbank talk

Of the waters of March

It's the end of the struggle...

It's the foot, it's the ground

It's the walk on the road

Small bird in the hand

A slingshot stone...

It's a bird in the sky

It's a bird on the ground

It's a creek, it's a fountain

It's a piece of bread...

It's the bottom of the well

It's the end of the way

On the face, the heartbreak

It's a little lonely...

It's a thorn, it's a nail

It's a point, it's a dot

It's a drop dripping

It's an tally, it's a tale...

It's a fish, it's a gesture

It's silver shining

It's the morning's light

It's the brick arriving...

It's the firewood, it's the day

It's the end of the trail

It's the bottle of liquor,

The splinter in the road...

It's the house's design

It's the body in bed

It's the broken down car

It's the mud, it's the mud...

It's a footstep, it's a bridge

It's a toad, it's a frog

It's a rest of brush

In the morning's light...

They are the waters of March

Closing the summer

It's the promise of life

In your heart...

It's a snake, it's a stick

It's John, it's Joseph

It's a thorn in the hand

It's the cut on the foot...

They are the waters of March

Closing the summer

It's the promise of life

In your heart...

It's stick, it's stone

It's the end of the road

It's a rest of stump

It's a little alone...

It's a footstep, a bridge

It's a toad, it's a frog

It's a beautiful horizon

It's a tertian fever...

They are the waters of March

Closing the summer

It's the promise of life

In your heart...

-Pau, -Edra, -Im, Inho

-Aco, -Idro, -Ida, -Ol

They are the waters of March

Closing the summer

It's the promise of life

In your heart...

1. 'Peroba' is a type of timber tree in Brazil.2. 'Cainga' is a native plant.3. Could also be a reference or homage to a famous Brazilian songwriter/composer Antonio Candeia Flho.4. 'Matita-pereira' is a striped cuckoo bird.5. The popular festivals or parties that celebrate the completion of an important stage in collective construction, both in urban and rural areas.

• Artist:Elis Regina
• Album:Elis & Tom (1974)