O Nome da Cidade
Maria Bethânia
The Name of the City
Oh-oh-oh! Hey boy! Hey guys!
Where does this all begin
The current never stopping
The journey of a journey
To another journey that keeps going
I arrived at the name of the city
Not the city itself, thick
A river that’s not a river: images
This city runs through me
Oh-oh-oh! Hey boy! Hey guys!
Does everything interest me
Each thing is too much and so many
What were my hopes
What’s a threat and what’s a promise
Streets flying over streets
Too many words, all lying
The Redeemer, what a horror, how beautiful
Bad boys, naked women
Oh-oh-oh! Hey boy! Hey guys!
We arrive without arriving
There’s no thread, just the string
Is this for my own Rio
This Rio is more sea than the sea?
Oh-oh-oh! Hey boy! Hey guys!
Backlands, backlands! Oh sea!
