Podres Poderes Lyrics in English Caetano Veloso
Below, I translated the lyrics of the song Podres Poderes by Caetano Veloso from Portuguese to English.
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Enquanto os homens exercem seus podres poderes
While men exercise their rotten powers
Motos e fuscas avançam os sinais vermelhos
Motorcycles and beetles advance the red lights
E perdem os verdes
And lose the greens
Somos uns boçais
We're a little bally
Queria querer gritar setecentas mil vezes
I wish I wanted to scream 700, 000 times
Como são lindos, como são lindos os burgueses
How beautiful they are, how beautiful the bourgeois
E os japoneses
And the Japanese
Mas tudo é muito mais
But everything is so much more
Será que nunca faremos senão confirmar
Will we ever do but confirm
A incompetência da américa católica
The incompetence of Catholic America
Que sempre precisará de ridículos tiranos?
That you always need ridiculous tyrants?
Será será que será que será que será?
Will it be?
Será que essa minha estúpida retórica
Is that my stupid rhetoric
Terá que soar, terá que se ouvir por mais zil anos?
It's going to have to sound, will you have to listen for another zil years?
Enquanto os homens exercem seus podres poderes
While men exercise their rotten powers
Índios e padres e bichas, negros e mulheres
Indians and priests and, blacks and women
E adolescentes
And teenagers
Fazem o carnaval
They do the carnival
Queria querer cantar afinado com eles
I wish I wanted to sing in tune with them
Silenciar em respeito ao seu transe, num êxtase
Silence in respect for your trance, in ecstasy
Ser indecente
Being indecent
Mas tudo é muito mau
But everything is very bad
Ou então cada paisano e cada capataz
Or else every countryman and every foreman
Com sua burrice fará jorrar sangue demais
With your stupidity will make too much blood gush
Nos pantanais, nas cidades, caatingas
In the wetland, in the cities, caatingas
E nos gerais
And in general
Será que apenas os hermetismos pascoais
Is it only the paschal hermetics
E os tons e os mil tons, seus sons e seus dons geniais
And the tones and the thousand tones, their sounds and their genius gifts
Nos salvam, nos salvarão dessas trevas
They save us, they will save us from this darkness
E nada mais?
And nothing else?
Enquanto os homens exercem seus podres poderes
While men exercise their rotten powers
Morrer e matar de fome, de raiva e de sede
Die and kill from hunger, anger and sea
São tantas vezes gestos naturais
It is so often natural gestures
Eu quero aproximar o meu cantar vagabundo
I want to approach my bum sing
Daqueles que velam pela alegria do mundo
Of those who care for the joy of the world
Indo mais fundo
Going deeper
Tins e bens e tais
Tins and goods and such
Será que nunca faremos senão confirmar
Will we ever do but confirm
A incompetência da américa católica
The incompetence of Catholic America
Que sempre precisará de ridículos tiranos?
That you always need ridiculous tyrants?
Será será que será que será que será?
Will it be?
Será que essa minha estúpida retórica
Is that my stupid rhetoric
Terá que soar, terá que se ouvir por mais zil anos?
It's going to have to sound, will you have to listen for another zil years?
Ou então cada paisano e cada capataz
Or else every countryman and every foreman
Com sua burrice fará jorrar sangue demais
With your stupidity will make too much blood gush
Nos pantanais, nas cidades, caatingas
In the wetland, in the cities, caatingas
E nos gerais
And in general
Será que apenas os hermetismos pascoais
Is it only the paschal hermetics
E os tons e os mil tons, seus sons e seus dons geniais
And the tones and the thousand tones, their sounds and their genius gifts
Nos salvam, nos salvarão dessas trevas
They save us, they will save us from this darkness
E nada mais?
And nothing else?
Enquanto os homens exercem seus podres poderes
While men exercise their rotten powers
Morrer e matar de fome, de raiva e de sede
Die and kill from hunger, anger and sea
São tantas vezes gestos naturais
It is so often natural gestures
Eu quero aproximar o meu cantar vagabundo
I want to approach my bum sing
Daqueles que velam pela alegria do mundo
Of those who care for the joy of the world
Indo mais fundo
Going deeper
Tins e bens e tais
Tins and goods and such
Indo mais fundo
Going deeper
Tins e bens e tais
Tins and goods and such
Indo mais fundo
Going deeper
Tins e bens e tais
Tins and goods and such
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