Oitavo Andar Lyrics in English Clarice Falcão

Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Oitavo Andar by Clarice Falcão from Portuguese to English.
When I saw you shut the door
I thought about jumping out the eighth-floor window
Where Mrs. Maria lives
Because she adores me and I can always walk in
It was just time for you to hit T
Check your hair in the mirror, chat with Mr. Zé
And see me falling on top of you
Like an anvil falls on some random cartoon
And then, just the two of us on the cold ground
Spooned together right on the curb
On the asphalt traced in chalk
Imagine what a happy scene
When the paramedics arrived
And the firefighters removed our bodies from Leblon
We'd go to the morgue
Playing at serious, lying there in bliss
Each of us like a popsicle
With the same tag on the foot
In the autopsy you'd see
That I only died for you
When I saw you shut the door
I thought about jumping out the eighth-floor window
Instead I turned around
And ate a whole blackberry pie for dinner
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SONG MEANING

Oitavo Andar is a deliciously dark comedy about the way our minds can leap to outrageous fantasies when love lets us down. The singer watches a partner close the door and, in a split-second burst of melodrama, pictures flinging herself from the eighth-floor window, landing right on top of her beloved like an anvil from an old cartoon. She imagines the whole scene in vivid detail: cuddling on the pavement, chalk outlines drawn around their bodies, paramedics and firefighters gathering in the chic neighborhood of Leblon, and even the two of them lying side by side in the morgue with matching toe tags. Every line heightens the absurdity while exposing just how theatrical heartbreak can feel.

Yet the punch line turns the tragedy on its head. Instead of taking the fatal plunge, she “does an about-face” and devours an entire blackberry pie for dinner. Clarice Falcão uses this playful twist to underline a bigger point: our inner soap operas may be full of catastrophic plots, but in real life we often cope with disappointment in far simpler, sweeter ways. The song transforms extreme romantic despair into tongue-in-cheek humor, reminding listeners that it is perfectly human—and often healthier—to swap dramatic endings for dessert.

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