Tigresa [English translation]

A black-nailed tigress with honey-colored eyes

A woman, a beauty that happened to me

Rubbing the brown golden skin of her body against mine

Telling me that bad is in fact good, and good is actually cruel

While the fur of that goddess shakes to the godless wind

She tells me, quite uncertain, everything she's been through

that she was very involved in politics in 1966

And now she's a dancer at Frenetic Dancing Days

She tells me she used to be an actress and had a role in "Hair"

that she was happy with some men, and a woman with others

that she carries plenty of rage in her heart, as she has been giving much love

And spreading a great amount of both pleasure and pain

But at the same time she says that everything is going to change

Because she will be whatever she wants, creating her own place

Where mankind and nature shall be happy and live in communion

And where the tigress shall be more intimidating than the lion

Her feline claws left a mark in my heart

But the childish foolishness in her words did not

And then I ran to my guitar in a lament, and morning came just as blue

How good it is to be able to play an instrument!

• Artist:Caetano Veloso
• Album:Bicho