Translation of the song lyrics Mar E Lua - Maria Bethânia

Mar E Lua (original)

Amaram
O amor urgente
As bocas salgadas
Pela maresia
As costas lenhadas
Pela tempestade
Naquela cidade
Distante do mar
Amaram
O amor serenado
Das noturnas praias
Levantavam as saias
E se enluaravam
De felicidade
Naquela cidade
Que não tem luar
Amavam
O amor proibido
Pois hoje é sabido
— Todo mundo conta
Que uma andava tonta
Grávida de lua
E outra andava nua
À vida de mar
E foram
Ficando marcadas
Ouvindo risadas
Sentindo arrepios
Olhando pro rio
Tão cheio de lua
E que continua
Correndo pro mar
E foram
Correnteza abaixo
Rolando no leito
Engolindo água
Boiando com as algas
Arrastando folhas
Carregando flores
E a se desmanchar
E foram
Virando peixes
Virando conchas
Virando seixos
Virando areia
Prateada areia
Com lua cheia
E à beira-mar

(translation)

loved
urgent love
The salty mouths
by the sea air
The wooded back
by the storm
In that city
Far from the sea
loved
The serene love
from the night beaches
Lifted up their skirts
And if they mooned
Of happiness
In that city
that has no moonlight
They loved
The forbidden love
For today it is known
— Everyone counts
that one was dizzy
pregnant with the moon
And another one was naked
To sea life
E were
getting marked
hearing laughter
feeling chills
looking at the river
So full of the moon
And that continues
running to the sea
E were
downstream
rolling in bed
swallowing water
Floating with the algae
dragging leaves
carrying flowers
And to fall apart
E were
turning fish
turning shells
turning pebbles
turning to sand
silver sand
with full moon
and by the sea