a little something for an old friend

yesterday i saw “the strange undoing of prudencia hart”, a theatre play about a girl who falls in love with the devil. they love each other, but viver no inferno é terrível. so, she leaves him. and leaving him is terrible as well. but she must do it. she doesn’t wanna be dead anymore. now she can discover a new language, she can forget the ballads and sing a new song, out of her celas tão eternas. but it’s still old. because it’s still about him. i'm free now. hell is inside me. when she left him, she said: “eu amo você, but even love’s made hell by immortality. i’ll miss you, devil, i wonder if you’ll miss me.” can you feel it? today i bought lots of gifts for everybody. i bought nothing for you. but i wanted to. this kylie’s song is from the soundtrack of the play, and this is my present for you, do outro lado do oceano. this is just a party song, but in prudencia’s voice, this is our hell song. feliz aniversário.

“i just can't get you out of my head

boy it's more than i dare to think about

every night

every day

just to be there in your arms

won't you stay?

won't you lay?

stay forever and ever and ever and ever

(...)

set me free.”

(o meu coração voa. de novo. e de novo. e de novo.
mas ele ainda está aí.)