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666
Music by Franklin Baldo — 666
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666
capoeira · ambient · 1:10
Lyrics
[Verso Único]
A vida é uns deveres que nós trouxemos para fazer em casa.
Quando se vê, já são seis horas: há tempo...
Quando se vê, já é sexta-feira...
Quando se vê, passaram sessenta anos!
Agora, é tarde demais para ser reprovado...
E se me dessem – um dia – uma outra oportunidade,
eu nem olhava o relógio
seguia sempre em frente...
e iria jogando pelo caminho a casca dourada e inútil das horas.Composer Notes
This text isn't mine — it's by Mário Quintana, and it's one of the most devastating poems I've ever read about how time works. "Life is homework we brought home to do." I've carried that line for years as a diagnosis. Not as a school metaphor — as precise phenomenology: the feeling that there's always time, that there's still a chance to do it, and then you look and sixty years have passed.
I asked Suno to set it on a capoeira berimbau, with electronic textures and clock-tick percussion. The result came out strange — in the right way. The berimbau has a very specific temporal quality: it marks and distorts time simultaneously, creating that state of altered presence which is exactly what the poem describes in reverse. You are inside the capoeira game and suddenly realize you are old. Or you are reading the poem and suddenly realize it is you.
The title "666" isn't provocation. It's the poem's duration in seconds in a format that felt right at the time — and then stayed. Numerical coincidences sometimes carry more force than they deserve.