Passa/ Passes

The traveler well-travelled travels.

Running from the corroded cord that is her life,

From the disturbing and turbulent silence that is her mind.

A viajante viajada viaja.

Correndo do cordão corroido que é sua vida.

Far away is her land she seeks,

Procura,

Procura,

Procura,

And does not find.

In her bag she carries kept kisses and a mischievous childhood.

Carrega o samba nas coxas,

O arroz e feijão na boca.

How beautiful are the english.

Comportados conduzindo construções com conteudo,

Well-behaved conducting constructions containing complicated contents.

Passa pasto,

Pasture.

Passa pasto,

Pasture.

Passa boi.

Passa vaca.

Passam todos com seus passinhos comportados.

Passa a vida,

Life passes.

Porque que a gente passa?

Vive passando de la pra ca,

Desse pra aquele.

Without thinking it passes,

And you haven’t stopped to think.

Até que a viajante viajada vira velha.

Until the well-travelled traveller becomes an old woman,

Velha paralitica murchada que espera a morte noturna.

Only because sitting on the train,

She saw life passing by,

And instead of walking it,

She wasted it.

Wasted away.

Só por que sentada no trem,

Viu a vida passando,

E em vez de passear,

Padeceu.

Wasting away.

Life passes.