Inverno [English translation]

On the happiest day of my life,

I saw a plane, reflected in your eyes

Until the moment it vanished.

From that day on, I don't know what to say,

I walk alone beside the canal,

I write endless love letters, adressed to no one,

And the winter in Leblon feels almost glacial to me.

There's a thing that never became clear to me :

Where exactly, on this same day

Did I let go of the lion*

I'd been riding my entire life?

On this very place, I also forgot that

the destiny always wanted me to live alone

Alone in a desert, without nostalgias, without regrets

Alone, without chains, like a ship, inebriatedly sailing away

I don't know why something in me

Reminds me all the time that, one day,

Heaven and earth, for a brief instant, became one, because of us two,

Little before the West darkened

• Artist:Adriana Calcanhotto
• Album:A Fábrica do Poema (1994)