After their 2021 debut, “Só Hoje Vi,” and a year later with the single “Ócio,” Rafael Xavier and Eduardo Sousa release the third song “Orion, Guide Me,” also part of the album “Ode Moribunda”.
“Close your eyes and you’ll see Heaven. Open your eyes and you’ll find Hell.”
It is in this limbo that “Orion, Guide Me” emerges, a scathing social critique that contemplates the seven deadly sins in an allegory between Good and Evil: a passage from the candid, the light and the beauty to a timeless city decadence.
The song is a fusion between the fado melancholy in the voice and guitar of the author Rafael Xavier and the folk and modern influence invoked by the violinist and composer Eduardo Sousa.
The lyrics explore nostalgia, longing and the sense of loss, the desire for guidance and the search for a path that brings solace and meaning amidst the prevailing sorrow.
The dense, dark and mysterious environment created by Rafael Xavier and captured through artistatuga’s lens is an intriguing satire that discloses a sharp critique about bribery, vice, clerical hypocrisy, corrupt politics and social indifference, but culminates in a sublime act of redemption and liberation.
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Lyrics:
Nas brumas de uma outrora encantada
Avenida, cantos, tons gentis
Das cores já não lhe sobra nada
E dos cantos nada sobra, enfim
Orion, guide me
Through the thousand miles away
Orion, guide me
Through the haze of routine’s trail
Numa ilha, encalhada a jangada
De um náufrago que ali ficou
O mar levou o apelo d’ostras
Que na costa o pobre desenhou
Orion, guide me
Through the thousand miles away
Orion, guide me
Through the haze of routine’s trail
Orion, guide me
Through the thousand nights awake
Orion, guide me
Through the sorrow that prevails
No leito de uma estação abandonada
Engolia a erva os carris
Se deambular é o meu fado
Com gratidão o tomarei, por fim
Orion, guide me
Through the thousand miles away
Orion, guide me
Through the haze of routine’s trail
Orion, guide me
Through the thousand nights awake
Orion, guide me
Through the sorrow that prevails
Credits:
Script and Direction: Rafael Xavier
Video and Photography: artistatuga
Music Production: Rafael Xavier, Eduardo Sousa
Music: Rafael Xavier, Eduardo Sousa
Lyrics: Rafael Xavier
