No Dia em Que Eu Saí de Casa [English translation]

The day when I left home,

my mother said to me:

"Son, come here!"

She passed her hand through my hair,

looked into my eyes,

and began to speak...

"Where you go, I follow

with my thoughts

where you always will be.

In my prayers

I will ask for God

to illuminate your way."

I know that she will never understand

my motives for leaving the place.1

But she knows that after growing up,

the son will be a birdie and wants to fly.

I would have liked staying,

but my destiny wanted me elsewhere.2

And the look of my mother in the door,

I left crying to her blessing.

My mother that day

talked to me about how the world is.

It appears like she knew

every rock that I was about to tread.

And always by my father

from the small city that she never left.

Thus she said to me:

"My son, go with God

because this entire world is yours."

I know that she will never understand

my motives for leaving the place.

But she knows that after growing up,

the son will be a birdie and wants to fly.

I would have liked staying,

but my destiny wanted me elsewhere.

And the look of my mother in the door,

I left crying to her blessing.

And the look of my mother in the door,

I left crying to her blessing.

And the look of my mother in the door,

I left crying to her blessing.

1. Lit. from there2. Lit. wanted to oppose me

• Artist:Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano