Retirada 2001

The end has come
This family says goodbye

Things piled up
Waiting for the move
And the tired band
Sadly, they work

Feelings cross
Of anguish and hope
Stages closing
Lives changing

Goodbye carnival
Another neighborhood will wait
For this family leaving today
Without words

Old furniture stacks against a wall
And the house stands bare
Like that day they first arrived
Carrying certainty and doubt on their shoulders
(A whole family, all with their causes
Side by side, no rush and no pause)

Little by little they load their past onto that truck
The future is a puzzle
Holding mysteries and secrets of a better time
Memories that are their wealth
(A band hat, a wedding veil
And photos with thousands of stories)

Suddenly appears
Inside a drawer
An old photo
Of a past love
Both smiling

A southern wind
Messed up their hair
Almost no light
It was a band member with a woman
At carnival
And that band member had written on the photo

"If you knew how much I miss you
So many times the rehearsals feel eternal
We band members are clowns without schedules
Those moments of meeting are so short
My romantic bohemia succumbed
With your heart..."

And they found from school
Smocks and hopscotch
In the pockets several coins
And a rose
And on the page of a book
Only one petal remained
To change its color

A flyer from seventy
Time of forbidden letters
Phrases playing hide and seek
Reborn, reviving...

That move
Made them move
Loves, memories, and pain
From a time that’s gone
Moving is changing
It’s going all in
Searching for new colors
(Color of the band at carnival)
Moving is growing, maturing, and breaking routines
That’s life...

Carnival
The excitement fills the one who leaves
In the last glance
At a time and a place
It’s hard to say goodbye without thinking
Of so many lived moments
That will soon change

Attachments that are hard to let go

There are moments that will slip away
Like water through our hands
A shooting star
There are words we need to give
Before that chance
Slips away

Words that are hard to say
Affections we stop giving

That’s why when that band left the neighborhood
They promised to come back every now and then
To knock on all the doors and chat with the neighbors
To hug the guys at the café

Maybe they’d also dare to approach the most beautiful one
The one they never told how much they adored her
Maybe stepping away would unleash the madness
Of declaring deep love to a woman

Band
That I carry here with me
That you’re part of my life
Of my love and my passions

Band
So many years have passed
Since that kid on stage
Who traveled in your songs

Band
Swallow of February
I want to follow your flight
Chase your dreams

It’s time
Dodging obstacles
To explode in a hug
Counter-farce and carnival

The time has come, the truck is leaving
Moving to another stage
The band is reviving the emotion
An eternal promise made to return

The time has come for our goodbye
Life is made of moments
Of a time that’s forever gone
And of another time that begins again

It’s time
Dodging obstacles
To explode in a hug
Counter-farce and carnival

The time has come, the truck is leaving
Moving to another stage
The band is reviving the emotion
An eternal promise made to return

The time has come for our goodbye
Life is made of moments
Of a time that’s forever gone
And of another time that begins again