Como Um Sonho Acordado
Fausto
Like a Waking Dream
As if the Earth were running
All the way 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 eagerly
In the sinuous entrails
Between the biting viscera
It jumps and spreads in the air
Goes and comes back
Delirious
So delirious
It's like a waking dream
That greasy figure
Wallowing 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 deep concave
Of the great night lake
Crossing the fire bars
Between Heaven and Hell
Until the wide open 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
All the way to the backbone
How your flesh trembles
Fernão Mendes
