Livros Lyrics in English Caetano Veloso
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Livros by Caetano Veloso from Portuguese to English.
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Tropeçavas nos astros desastrada
You stumbled on the clumsy stars
Quase não tínhamos livros em casa
We almost didn't have any books at home
E a cidade não tinha livraria
And the city had no bookstore
Mas os livros que em nossa vida entraram
But the books that in our lives came in
São como a radiação de um corpo negro
They're like the radiation of a black body
Apontando pra a expansão do universo
Pointing to the expansion of the universe
Porque a frase, o conceito, o enredo, o verso
Because the phrase, the concept, the plot, the verse
É o que pode lançar mundos no mundo
It's what can launch worlds into the world
Tropeçavas nos astros desastrada
You stumbled on the clumsy stars
Sem saber que a ventura e a desventura
Without knowing that the fortune and the misfortune
Dessa estrada que vai do nada ao nada
From this road that goes from nothing to nothing
São livros e o luar contra a cultura
It's books and the moonlight against culture
Os livros são objetos transcendentes
Books are transcendent objects
Mas podemos amá-los do amor táctil
But we can love them from tactile love
Que votamos aos maços de cigarro
That we vote for cigarette packs
Domá-los, cultivá-los em aquários
Tame them, grow them in aquariums
Em estantes, gaiolas, em fogueiras
On bookshelves, cages, on campfires
Ou lançá-los pra fora das janelas
Or throw them out of the windows
Ou o que é muito pior por odiarmo-los
Or what's so much worse because we hate them
Podemos simplesmente escrever um
We can simply write a
Encher de vãs palavras muitas páginas
Fill many pages with vain words
E de mais confusão as prateleiras
And of more confusion the shelves
Tropeçavas nos astros desastrada
You stumbled on the clumsy stars
Mas pra mim foste a estrela entre as estrelas
But to me you were the star among the stars
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