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Despite the lack of credit on the album sleeve, the song “Spleen” is another product of the fruitful partnership between Bruno and Geo Benjamin who confirms that he is indeed its co-writer, handling the music while Bruno wrote the lyrics. Geo clearly recalls the writing of the song back in 1984 when the pair were living in the old Copacabana apartment, and describes it as a “French candomblé.” Bruno wrote the lyrics on a napkin one night while out carousing at the Pizzeria Guanabara. Arriving back at the flat in high spirits at 6 AM he woke Geo up to show him the lyrics and ask him to write music to them. With a Mediterranean atmosphere, emphasized by Zé Américo’s accordion, the “Baudelairean” reference in the song relates to the irritation, anguish and melancholy of Bruno’s Charles Baudelaire side.