Terra by Caetano Veloso. Amazing musician and songwriter from Brazil. I dont know if we have anyone like him in the English world - it would be like David Byrne and Paul Simon in one person. Here are the lyrics translated to English: When I found myself arrested In a prison cell Thats when I first saw Those famous pictures In which you appear entire However you were not naked But covered by clouds… Earth! Earth! However distant The wandering navigator Who could ever forget you?... Nobody supposes the brunette Inside the bluish star In the vertigo of the movie I send you an embrace, Little one – as if I were The homesick poet And you were the Paraíba*… Earth! Earth! However distant The wandering navigator Who could ever forget you?... I’m just in love With an earth girl Earth element sign From the sea is said “earth in sight” Earth to the foot solidity Earth to the hand caress Other stars** for you are guides… Earth! Earth! However distant The wandering navigator Who could ever forget you?... I am a lion of fire Without you I’d burn up I’d burn up myself eternally And it would be worthless The fact of my being people And people is another joy Different than stars’s… Earth! Earth! However distant The wandering navigator Who could ever forget you?... From where neither time nor space May the Force send courage For us to treat you tenderly During all the journey That you carry out in the nothing Through which you bear The name of your flesh… Earth! Earth! However distant The wandering navigator Who could ever forget you?... Earth! Earth! However distant The wandering navigator Who could ever forget you?... Earth! Earth! However distant The wandering navigator Who could ever forget you?... In the townhouses’s terraces Of the old city of Salvador There are remembrances of damsels From the time of the Emperor Everything, everything in Bahia Makes us to be fond of Bahia*** has such a way… Earth! Earth! However distant The wandering navigator Who could ever forget you?... Earth! *Paraíba – One of the states of Brazil. **Astros (Celestial bodies) translated as “Stars”. ***Bahia - One of the states of Brazil. The city of Salvador is the capital of Bahia.
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