Tatuagem [English translation]

I want to stay on your body

Like a tattoo

So as to give you courage

To go on your journey

When the night comes

And also to perpetuate myself

As your slave

That you grab, scrub

deny, but does not wash away

I want to play on your body

Like a ballerina

Who soon drives you crazy

Jumps and illuminates

When the night comes

And on the exausted muscles

Of your arm

I want to rest loose, withered

satiated, dead tired

I want to weigh like a cross

On your back

That shreds you to pieces

But deep down you like it

When the night comes

I wanna be the scar

Laughing and corrosive

Marked on the cold*

With iron and fire

On raw flesh

Mother's hearts, harpoons

Mermaids and snakes

Which scribbles on

Your whole body

And you don't feel

• Artist:Chico Buarque
• Album:Chico Canta (1973)