A AMARGURA DA FELICIDADE

Adriano Costa

Fiz-me tolo
Fiz-me pueril
Tornei-me escravo das suas entranhas
Cuspi todo o resto de orgulho das minhas veias
Perdi-me na poeira das estradas em busca de ti

Acabei-me em confusões mentais bruscas
Fixei-me em locais vis para esquecer-te
Burlei todos os códigos para proteger-te
Ganhei decepções mil a perecer-me
Virei uma caricatura de mim mesmo ao conhecer-te

Doenças, tédios, minha rotina é obscura
Busquei uma cura, mas falhei
Apelei a crenças, vil engano, piorei
Enredei em tramas amorosas, estrepei-me
Botei todo blood on the tracks, nem Dylan entendeu

O asco da tua boca repaginou-me
Fiasco de vida que me traz um parco orgulho de lembranças passadas
Vi-me careta para ter o teu orgulho
Vi minha vida tornar-se uma piada
Teu corpo foi minha maior cilada

Cai-me a poeira da escuridão
Traz-me um copo de amor, oh solidão!
Fito a amargura da felicidade
Falsidade é a bandeira da humanidade
Tragai-me para a infinitude da banalidade


NOT DARK YET
(Bob Dylan)

Shadows are falling and I've been here all day
It's too hot to sleep time is running away
Feel like my soul has turned into steel
I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal
There's not even room enough to be anywhere
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there
Well my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain
She wrote me a letter and she wrote it so kind
She put down in writing what was in her mind
I just don't see why I should even care
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there
Well, I've been to London and I've been to gay Paree
I've followed the river and I got to the sea
I've been down on the bottom of a world full of lies
I ain't looking for nothing in anyone's eyes
Sometimes my burden seems more than I can bear
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there
I was born here and I'll die here against my will
I know it looks like I'm moving, but I'm standing still
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from
Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer
It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.