Capitão Gancho [English translation]

If were not those suitcases full of memories

Or that story from more than a year ago

(If) Were not the damages

It wouldn’t be me.

If were not my aunts with all their kindness1

Or if the boy wasn’t beloved anymore

If it has not gone wrong,

It wouldn’t be me.

If the fact is that I disgust you so much

I don’t want to be boring

But I’ll be honest

I don’t know what makes you against me.

You can try for hours make me feel guilty

But it won’t work

Once that the entire rest of my life has done me like this

If wasn’t the “ouchs”

And if wasn’t the pain

And this mania of reminding everything as a recorder.

If wasn’t God

Playing the writer

If wasn’t the Mickey and the Tuesdays and the panda bears

And the first floor above the first house I lived

And it was possible to get to the hill through the balcony, if wasn’t the hunger

And these children and this dog and Sancho Panza

If wasn’t Koni and the Captain Hook

It wouldn’t be me.

1. or: gifts

• Artist:Clarice Falcão
• Album:Monomania (2013)