Ao Meu Pai
Moacyr Franco
To My Dad
When I saw you leave
My sun
Went away with you
Your place, empty at our table
will remain
And there's one more name in the prayer that I
will pray
You were, to some
nothing more
than a very ordinary man
But to me
you were the example I tried to follow
the root of everything that beats in me
I am your blood
"Ah my dad, yesterday I was at our house,
your house/ it felt like I saw you everywhere/
the house was the same/ four windows/
four windows tired of looking at the road,
waiting for you to come back..."
Wherever you
are
you will never die
you will live
In every child who knows how to pray
In everyone who saw you pass
through life
Wherever you
are
goodnight
