Foguete [English translation]

I set off fireworks so many times

Just by thinking you were coming

I used to be here on my own, quiet

Listening to the noise

Of my longing

Like in the poem of João Cabral de Mello Neto

A lonely cock doesn't make a morning

I feel the hand of your care on my skin

When I heard the song of the laughing falcon

The breeze came like soft sugarcane

So sweet, gave me a kiss

Like a flower of my love

So many memories this care brought me

A kiss is all it contains

I set off fireworks so many times

Just by thinking you were coming

I used to be here on my own, quiet

Listening to the noise

Of my longing

I grabbed my old lace fabric

I made sheets, tablecloth

And I sewed a curtain

I swept the house with a thin broom

I set a hammock in the balcony

All adorned with daisies

You came in the dawn

I never felt so much happiness again

If I could, I'd set off fireworks

I would light a bonfire

I would put many balloons in the skies

Our love is so beautiful and so honest

Like a Saint John Feast*