Você Tá Bem?

If you listen to Sexual Healing
In the voice and guitar of Ben Harper
And think of a 16-year-old kid
You doing alright?

If you can stay quiet
At any party or bar
Where you’re with the same 10 or 12 friends as always
And just want to leave
You doing alright?

If the cold and rain don’t bother you
Like they did in previous years
In fact, you ask for more and more cold and more and more rain
Even knowing you’ll be alone
Under the covers
You doing alright?

If Head & Heart seems pretentious to you
If the word Jesus doesn’t make you uncomfortable
Screamed in songs by Tom Ace
And if that pop song by Beyoncé seems even reasonable
In the Portuguese cover
By Preta Gil
You doing alright?

If you can stay quiet
In front of people you could be chatting with if you wanted to
But you don’t want to
Still
You doing alright?

If the ritual of making a cup of coffee is the most awaited moment of your day
If that moment happens in the morning
So you spend the afternoon, the night waiting for the next morning to make that cup of coffee
You doing alright?

And if the people you don’t know, but wish you did
Avoid talking to you
Because, well, you don’t look like someone who wants to talk to anyone
You doing alright?

You doing alright?
You doing alright?

You good?
Oh really?
Then alright!
It’s just that sometimes it doesn’t seem like it.