Picture yourself walking a Brazilian country road after a blazing summer, while the first heavy March rains start to fall. In Águas de Março, Elis Regina and composer Tom Jobim turn that simple moment into a playful torrent of images: sticks, stones, frogs, bridges, shards of glass, and the hiss of the wind. Each short line lands like a raindrop, quick, vivid, and gone, inviting you to feel the rhythm of nature and language at the same time.
All those scattered snapshots add up to a larger mosaic about endings that are really beginnings. The March rains signal the close of Brazil's summer, yet they also soak the earth, planting a promise of life in the heart. By placing light and dark side by side - a broken bottle next to morning light, mud beside fresh timber - the song whispers that every ordinary moment carries the seed of renewal. Let the words rush past you like water and you will hear a gentle lesson: life keeps flowing, and hope is always just around the bend.