Veloso Caetano
The Best of Caetano Veloso
Rotten Powers
While men exercise their rotten powers
Motorcycles and Beetles run red lights
And lose the green ones
We are bossais
I would like to scream seven hundred thousand times
How beautiful they are, how beautiful the bourgeoisie are
And the Japanese
But everything is much more
Will it never What will we do but confirm
The incompetence of Catholic America
That it will always need ridiculous tyrants?
Will it be that
will it?
Will this stupid rhetoric of mine
Will it have to sound, will it have to be heard for another zil years?
While men exercise their rotten powers, Indians and priests
and queers, blacks and women
And teenagers
They do carnival
I wish I could sing in tune with them
br/>To be silent in respect for your trance, in ecstasy
To be indecent, but everything is very bad
Or else every countryman and every foreman
With his stupidity he will make too much blood flow
In the wetlands, in the cities, in the caatingas
And in general.
Will only the Easter Hermeticisms
And the tones and the thousand tones, their sounds and their genius gifts
Save us, saved us from these darkness
And nothing else?
While men exercise their rotten powers
Dying and killing of hunger, anger and thirst
These are so often natural gestures
I want to bring my vagabond singing closer
To those who watch over the joy of the world
Going deeper
Tips and goods and such.

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