Águas de Março - Elis Regina and Tom Jobim - Aguas de Marco - Waters of March

“Águas de Março“ is a Brazilian song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim. Jobim wrote both the English and Portuguese lyrics. The lyrics do not tell a story, but rather present a series of images that form a collage; nearly every line starts with “É...“ (“[It] is...“). In both the Portuguese and English versions of the lyrics, “it“ is a stick, a stone, a sliver of glass, a scratch, a cliff, a knot in the wood, a fish, a pin, the end of the road,“ and many other things, although some specific references
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