Clarisse [English translation]

I'm tired of being vilified, misunderstood, and discarded

Whoever says that they understand me never wanted to know

That boy was checked in to a clinic

They say that by the absence of his friends' attention, of the memories

From dreams that configured sad and inert

Like an immobile hourglass, it doesn't move itself, doesn't propel itself, doesn't work.

And Clarisse is locked in the bathroom

And makes marks on her body with her small pocketknife

Lying in the corner, her ankles bleed

And the pain is smaller that it seems

When she cuts herself she forgets

That it's impossible to stay calm and strong in life

To live in pain, which nobody understands

To try to be strong each and every daybreak

One of her friends already went away

When one more police occurrence

Nobody understands, don't look at me like that

With this likeness of a good samaritan

Fulfilling your duty, as if I were sick

As if all this pain were different, or nonexistent

Nothing exists for me, don't try

You don't know and don't understand

And when the antidepressants and sedatives don't work anymore

Clarisse knows that the insanity is present

And feels the strange essence of what is death

But this emptiness she knows very well

Now and then it's a new treatment

But the world always stays the same

The fear of returning home at night

The men that rub themselves lewdly

On the come-and-go road to the school

The lack of hope and the torment

Of knowing that nothing is fair and little is certain

And that we're destroying the future

And that malice always walks close by

The violence and the injustice that there is

Against all the girls and women

A world where the truth is inside out

And happiness no longer has an address

Clarisse is locked in her room

With her discs and her books, her weariness

I am a bird

They lock me in the cage

And hope that I sing like before

I am a bird

They lock me in a cage

But one day I'll be able to exist, and I'll fly through most beautiful road

Clarisse is only 14 years old...

• Artist:Legião Urbana
• Album:Uma outra estação