Paroles et traduction Maria Bethânia - Mar e Lua

Mar e Lua

Amaram o amor urgente
As bocas salgadas pela maresia
As costas lanhadas pela tempestade
Naquela cidade distante do mar
Amaram o amor serenado das noturnas praias
Levantavam as saias e se enluaravam de felicidade
Naquela cidade que não tem luar
Amaram o amor proibido, pois hoje é sabido
Todo mundo conta
Que uma andava tonta, grávida de lua
E outra andava nua, ávida de mar

E foram ficando marcadas, ouvindo risadas
Sentindo arrepios
Olhando pro rio, tão cheio de lua
E que continua correndo pro mar
E foram correnteza abaixo
Rolando no leito, engolindo água
Boiando com as algas, arrastando folhas
Carregando flores e a se desmanchar
E foram virando peixes, virando conchas
Virando seixos, virando areia, prateada areia
Com lua cheia
E à beira mar

Mar e Lua

We loved with an urgent love,
Our mouths salty from the sea spray,
Our backs scarred by the storm,
In that city far from the sea.
We loved with the serene love of the moonlit beaches,
Lifting our skirts and bathing in the moonlight,
In that city where there is no moon.
We loved with a forbidden love, as it is now known,
Everyone tells the tale.
That one of us was dizzy, pregnant with the moon,
And the other was naked, hungry for the sea.

And we were being marked, hearing the laughter,
Feeling the goosebumps,
Looking at the river, so full of the moon,
And that keeps flowing into the sea.
And we were carried away by the current,
Rolling in the riverbed, swallowing water,
Floating with the seaweed, dragging leaves,
Carrying flowers and then breaking apart.
And we became fish, we became shells,
We became pebbles, we became sand, silvery sand,
Under a full moon,
And by the seashore.