Catharsis

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Nada Além
Mário Lago/Custódio Mesquita

Nada além,
nada além de uma ilusão,
chega bem,
é demais para o meu coração.

Acreditando em tudo
que o amor mentindo sempre diz,
eu vou vivendo assim feliz,
na ilusão de ser feliz.

Se o amor
só nos causa sofrimento e dor
é melhor,
bem melhor a ilusão do amor.

Eu não quero e nem peço,
para o meu coração,
nada além
de uma linda ilusão

Orlando Silva: sad beautiful moment

One of the most beautifully sad stories of Brazil'50 talks about one famous Mário Lago & Custódio Mesquita song. The Maracanazo is subject for one thousand histories and stories - among them, one that happened in the night of that july 16th. Few hours after the tragedy Rio, just converted in a cemetery, was still wonderful. But, that night, the city needed to forget what had happened. Some came back home, another roamed around the city. Others, of course, went to the bars, looking for spirits - "spirits" do give some relief to the soul.

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Orlando Silva, named "singer of the crowds" by the famous speaker Oduvaldo Cozzi, was singing, that night, in one of the bars of the seafront. A group of - justly - triumphant uruguayans was drinking to celebrate the Cup, when Silva announced that would interpret Nada Além, by the double of carioca composers - The song was alusive to the score of hours before. As sang, many of the brazilians there started to cry, and the uruguayans, listening to the lirics, understood it was. Then, they would joined the Brazilian catarsis.

Nada Além don't talks about football, but about an unfulfilled love, big enough to be worth by itself. It's one song of a time when suffering didn't needed to be avoided at all costs. Maybe Brazil'50 is so huge just because it failed to become reality - nothing more than a beautiful illusion.

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