She has sold over 10 million albums and won numerous national and international awards, including five Latin Grammy Awards, seven Video Music Brasil, nine Multishow Brazilian Music Awards, five APCA and six TIM Music Awards. Marisa is considered by the American magazine Rolling Stone as the fourth greatest Brazilian singer, behind Elis Regina, Gal Costa and Maria Bethânia. She also has two albums on the list of the 100 best albums in Brazilian music.
In October 2021, Marisa was awarded at the 44th edition of the Tenco Award, for her work as a singer and songwriter, becoming the first Brazilian female artist to receive such an honor.
Água Também É Mar
Marisa Monte Lyrics
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E aqui na praia
Também é margem
Já que não é urgente
Aguente e sente
Aguarde o temporal
Chuva também
No céu imagem
Há que tirar o sapato
E pisar
Com tato nesse litoral
Gire a torneira
Perigas ver
Inunda o mundo
O barco é você
Na distância, há de sonhar
Há de estancar
Gotas tantas não demora
Sede estranha
Marisa Monte's song Água também é mar speaks about the interconnectedness of everything on earth, specifically the ocean and its relation to the land. The lyrics start off by stating that water is also part of the sea, and on the beach it is also a shore. The lyrics then continue to advise the listener to be patient and await the inevitable storms, because rain is just washed-up seawater falling from the sky.
The song advocates for a more mindful way of life, encouraging people to take off their shoes and walk with care on the shore, to turn off the faucet to prevent flooding, and to realize that each person's life is equivalent to a single boat in a vast ocean. The lyrics call upon the listener to dream of far-off lands, to quench their strange thirst, and to help quell the many drops that threaten to overflow.
Água também é mar has a deeply introspective, poetic quality that emphasizes the importance of the natural world, and our interconnectedness with it.
Line by Line Meaning
Água também é mar
The water present here is also connected to the sea
E aqui na praia
Even here on the beach
Também é margem
It's still a shoreline
Já que não é urgente
Since it's not urgent
Aguente e sente
Endure and feel it
Aguarde o temporal
Wait for the storm
Chuva também
Rain too
É água do mar lavada
Is water washed from the sea
No céu imagem
In the sky, there's an image
Há que tirar o sapato
You should take off your shoes
E pisar
And step on it
Com tato nesse litoral
With caution on this shoreline
Gire a torneira
Turn on the tap
Perigas ver
You might see
Inunda o mundo
The world is flooded
O barco é você
You are the boat
Na distância, há de sonhar
In the distance, you'll dream
Há de estancar
You'll stop
Gotas tantas não demora
So many drops won't take long
Sede estranha
Strange thirst
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: MARISA DE AZEVEDO MONTE, ARNALDO AUGUSTO NORA ANTUNES FILHO, ANTONIO CARLOS SANTOS DE FREITAS
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