LYRICS GAME

What a shame not to be a bird of passage

Nor the route on a nautical chart

How sweet to be the white cloth, filled by the wind

Of the sailboat that joyfully rears up

How slow to be a cypress, living straight to the sky

And to know

That everything in this world needs its time

What a shame not to be a bird of passage

Nor a prow that knifes the seven seas

Or the gleam of a beautiful girl's earring

Who dances barefoot through the parks

I search in the noise of the squares

I search in the streets of cities I no longer know

I search for the scent of women passing by

To their business, their struggle, the task that is theirs

I'm saving a sunny afternoon

A sunny afternoon, just in case

That's a treasure nobody can snatch from me

I keep the smiling gaze of some girl

I keep in a pocket

The color of an orange peel

Better a feather from a dog's wing

Than spending the days waiting

To smoke out the mind's hornet's nest

Let it scatter in apathy with its shadows

What a shame not to be a bird of passage

Or a reef on a coral bar

At the nesting dawn of passage

That floats on foamy seas

Or the glint of a tin fish, a water flower

That gleams and dances in the ponds

I look for you among the people in the squares

I look for you in the streets of cities you don't remember

I look for you in the perfume of women passing by

In the silences that grow when they don't speak

I'm saving you a sunny afternoon

A sunny afternoon, if you want it

That's a treasure nobody can snatch from you

I'm saving you a smiling gaze that wants for nothing

I keep in a pocket for you

The warmth of my skin in case you come