Meu Rio

My Rio
Near the Muquiço favela
As a boy, I already understood this
A taste of Susticau
Ballet at the Municipal
Quintino:
A bandstand
Interviewed by the passing train
We remember well
Bahians, Paráns, and Pernambucans:
Warm still air
Pearl sea
Green wave of cold satin
My Rio
Far from the Muquiço favela
Everything in my heart
Waited for the good sound: João
Tom Jobim
Finally drew
Over me
Your mountain-sky
Your own god
City
View from the other side of the bay
Of gold and fire at the end of the day
In those afternoons
I loved you in my heart
I love you
In silence
From here in Saco de São Francisco
I coveted the risk
Of life
In all these buildings, in these streets
Bad boys, naked girls
Your carnival
Is a gleaming steam
And I laugh
Inside the Muquiço favela
Mangueira in my heart
Guadalupe in me is Foundation
Loneliness
Maracanã
Samba-song
Without father or mother
Without anything mine
My Rio