Como Um Sonho Acordado

As if the Earth were running
All behind me
Fear surrounds my senses
Underneath my skin
Sneaking slimy
Dripping sticky
And coming out
Through my pores
Through my groans
It penetrates my bones
As it spills thirsty
In the sinuous entrails
Between the biting viscera
It jumps and spreads in the air
Goes and comes
Delirious
So delirious
It's like a waking dream
That greasy figure
Wriggling in the mud
Sliding from a larva
Emerging deep down
I'm afraid oh afraid
Take everything it's all yours
But let me go

Drag me to the concave bottom
Of the great lake of the night
Crossing the fire bars
Between Heaven and Hell
Until the gaping mouth
Ravenous
Behind me
Behind me
It's like a waking dream
Those eyes in the dark
Of the weeping widows
For the murdered father
Eviscerated by his son
Who lustfully possessed
His own mother
And his lover

My love when I die
Oh lovely
Wear the most colorful skirt
If I'm going to die at sea
Oh lovely
And I want to see you on the beach
But keep away those voices
Lovely

You're afraid of the living
And the dismembered dead
By the feet and by the hands
And by the neck and by the chest
Until the edge of the back
How your flesh trembles
Fernão Mendes