Tudo Outra Vez [English translation]

It's been a long time, such a long time, since I was home

And in these islands so distant

My leather jacket wore down (oh! oh! oh!)

I heard the guys talking, saying that that friend who boarded with me, filled of hope and faith, already went back home (oh! oh! oh!)

Sitting by the side of the road to hitch a ride

I've been talking to my companion woman

Maybe back there in the tropics life is thrilling

And a guy who used to make out at night in the "Danubio Azul" [a bus line] told me it's sunny in South America

And that our sisters are waiting for us in Brazil's heartland

My white hammock

My playful dog

"Sertão" [a region of Brazil], look at the Concorde

Coming from overseas

It's the end of the term "Saudade" [a Portuguese word to describe a state of nostalgic or melancholic longing for someone or some moment from the pass]

From a Brazilian charm

To the words of a stubborn loner

Listen up you’all

I've been away

So when I disappeared

She found a lover

My beautiful "normalista" [a high school girl studying to be a teacher]

I'm still a student of the life I want to teach

It looks like it was yesterday

My youthhood and its degree in suffering from another university

My "Northeast" mother tongue, I want to forget all my French

And I'll live the new things, which are also good

The love, the cheerfulness of town squares full of people

Now I want it all, all over again

My white hammock

My playful dog

"Sertão", look at the Concorde

Coming from abroad

It's the end of the term "Saudade"

From a Brazilian charm

To the words of a stubborn loner

Listen up you’all

I've been away

So when I disappeared

She found a lover

My beautiful "normalista"

I'm still a student of the life I want to teach

Hmm! Huum!

• Artist:Belchior
• Album:Era Uma Vez Um Homem e Seu Tempo (1979)