Текст и перевод песни Cordel do Fogo Encantado - Sobre as Folhas (Ou o Barão nas Árvores)

Sobre as Folhas (Ou o Barão nas Árvores)

Contarei a história do barão
Que comia na mesa com seu pai
Era herdeiro primeiro dos currais
Mas gritou num jantar
"Não quero nada! Nada!"

Nesse dia subiu num grande galho
Nunca mais o barão pisou na terra

Passou anos e anos na floresta
Andou léguas e léguas sobre as folhas
Construiu sua casa feito ninho
Beijou sua mulher perto das nuvens
Um concreto bordado nas alturas
Com manobras de amor no precipício

Quando amanheceu entre dois prédios
De pastilhas brancas e tandos andares
Um guindaste bem mais distante
A luz, a sombra, a luz, vermelha, da roupa, da aurora...

Soube nessa madrugada do homem
Que não quis os minérios do pai
E não quis os segredos farpados da mãe
Subiu numa planta, no alto da pedra
Bem perto daqui,
E ficou por lá.

Over the Foliage (Or the Baron in the Trees)

I'll tell you the story of the baron
Who ate at his table with his father
He was the first-born heir of the corrals
But one day at dinner he shouted
"I want nothing! Nothing!"

That day he climbed up a big branch
Never again did the baron set foot on earth

He spent years and years in the forest
He travelled leagues and leagues over the foliage
He built his home like a nest
He kissed his wife near the clouds
A concrete masterpiece embroidered in the heights
With amorous manoeuvres on the precipice

At daybreak he found himself between two buildings
With white tiles and so many floors
A crane some distance away
The light, the shade, the light, red, of the clothes, of the dawn...

On that morning I learned of the man
Who didn't want his father's minerals
Nor the barbed secrets of his mother
He climbed up a plant, atop the rock
Very close by,
And there he stayed.