Paroles et traduction Caetano Veloso - Clarice - Remastered 2006

Clarice - Remastered 2006

Há muita gente
Apagada pelo tempo
Nos papéis desta lembrança
Que tão pouco me ficou
Igrejas brancas
Luas claras na varandas
Jardins de sonho e cirandas
Foguetes claros no ar
Que mistério tem Clarice?
Que mistério tem Clarice?
Pra guardar-se assim tão firme, no coração
Clarice era morena
Como as manhãs são morenas
Era pequena no jeito
De não ser quase ninguém
Andou conosco caminhos
De frutas e passarinhos
Mas jamais quis se despir
Entre os meninos e os peixes
Entre os meninos e os peixes
Entre os meninos e os peixes
Do rio, do rio
Que mistério tem Clarice?
Que mistério tem Clarice?
Pra guardar-se assim tão firme, no coração
Tinha receio do frio
Medo de assombração
Um corpo que não mostrava
Feito de adivinhações
Os botões sempre fechados
Clarice tinha o recato
De convento e procissão
Eu pergunto o mistério
Que mistério tem Clarice?
Pra guardar-se assim tão firme, no coração
Soldado fez continência
O coronel reverência
O padre fez penitência
Três novenas e uma trezena
Mas Clarice
Era a inocência
Nunca mostrou-se a ninguém
Fez-se modelo das lendas
Fez-se modelo das lendas
Das lendas que nos contaram as avós
Que mistério tem Clarice?
Que mistério tem Clarice?
Pra guardar-se assim tão firme, no coração
Tem que um dia
Amanhecia e Clarice
Assistiu minha partida
Chorando pediu lembranças
E vendo o barco se afastar de Amaralina
Desesperadamente linda, soluçando e lentamente
E lentamente despiu o corpo moreno
E entre todos os presentes
Até que seu amor sumisse
Permaneceu no adeus chorando e nua
Para que a tivesse toda
Todo o tempo que existisse
Que mistério tem Clarice?
Que mistério tem Clarice?
Pra guardar-se assim tão firme, no coração

Clarice - Remastered 2006

There are many people
Erased by time
In the papers of this memory
That so little I have left
White churches
Clear moons on the balconies
Gardens of dreams and round dances
Bright rockets in the air
What mystery does Clarice have?
What mystery does Clarice have?
To keep herself so steadfast, in the heart
Clarice was a brunette
As the mornings are brunettes
Was small in her way
Of not being almost anyone
Walked with us paths
Of fruits and little birds
But never wanted to undress
Among the boys and the fishes
Among the boys and the fishes
Among the boys and the fishes
Of the river, of the river
What mystery does Clarice have?
What mystery does Clarice have?
To keep herself so steadfast, in the heart
Was afraid of the cold
Fear of being haunted
A body that did not show
Made of riddles
The buttons always closed
Clarice had the modesty
Of convent and procession
I ask the mystery
What mystery does Clarice have?
To keep herself so steadfast, in the heart
Soldier made a salute
The colonel a reverence
The priest did penance
Three novenas and a trezena
But Clarice
Was innocence
Never showed herself to anyone
She became a model for legends
She became a model for legends
Of the legends that our grandmothers told us
What mystery does Clarice have?
What mystery does Clarice have?
To keep herself so steadfast, in the heart
There was a day
It was dawning and Clarice
Watched my departure
Crying, she asked for memories
And seeing the boat leave Amaralina
Desperately beautiful, sobbing and slowly
And slowly she undressed her brunette body
And among all present
Until her love disappeared
She remained crying and naked in the goodbye
So that she would have it all
All the time that existed
What mystery does Clarice have?
What mystery does Clarice have?
To keep herself so steadfast, in the heart