Pirraça [English translation]

Time flies* (Time goes by without a pause)

if you don't think of the hours.

The hands of the clock

keep turning if you don't look.

But when I heat the stove

to make a coffee,

I see time stop.

For boiling water

seems never to be ready, it's never done.

6:04, 6:05, 6:05, 6:05 (AM)

Waiting for the kettle's whistle,

I watch time stop.

Stopping,

it's time's trick.

In the afternoons at work,

I want the time to pass.

The hands of the clock

just go tick-tock.

When I meet with friends

to have coffee,

nothing is so fast.

There's no disguising it,

it seems like a joke...

Come on, come on!

When I stop to look at the time,

it's time I look for,

and I wait anxiously.

I'll eat at home:

peanut candy, milk pudding, coconut bits, jujubees,**

coconut flan, sweets, churros, yerba mate tea.

Peanut candy, milk pudding, coconut bits, jujubees,

coconut flan, sweets, churros.

And I'll watch time stop.

Stopping,

it's time's trick.

Peanut candy, milk pudding, coconut bits, jujubes,

Coconut flan, sweets, churros, yerba mate tea.

• Artist:Vanessa da Mata
• Album:Sim