№ 002 · Cais do Avesso
Doze Tempos
Twelve tracks cross the entire life of a couple, from a first chance encounter at 19 to an ordinary morning at 74. Each track has its own page with a complete lyric translation. The original Brazilian Portuguese pages remain available through the PT links.
Track by track
Each track has its own page with a complete lyric translation. The original Brazilian Portuguese pages remain available through the PT links.
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O trânsito · The Traffic Light
A street corner, an unknown man, a memory that stays.
Uma carta que não mandei · A Letter I Did Not Send
A single line about her in a letter to a distant brother.
A mesa de domingo · The Sunday Table
Family Sunday lunch, seven glasses, an empty chair.
O que disse ao meu pai · What I Told My Father
The dying father listens, three seconds, and knows.
O cabelo curto · The Short Hair
She cut her hair, he does not say, she does not say he did not say.
O que não contei · What I Did Not Tell
Three days between the test and the blood, kept to herself.
A vizinha · The Neighbor
Eight minutes with Ana, and at home no one asks.
O aniversário · The Birthday
Cake, blue ribbon, memory of her dead mother, his hand returned.
Quando ele cozinha · When He Cooks
After twenty-five years, a song of his she had never heard.
A cozinha às três da manhã · The Kitchen at Three in the Morning
Two voices in the same kitchen, never in sync.
A filha liga · The Daughter Calls
A small lie to their daughter, and the phone that does not ring again.
Uma manhã qualquer · Any Ordinary Morning
Coffee for two, he forgets her name, she says it, he laughs.