Translation of the song Os Outros Românticos artist Caetano Veloso

English, Portuguese

Os Outros Românticos

English translation

The Other Romantics

Eram os outros românticos, no escuro

The other romantics were in the dark

Cultuavam outra idade média, situada no futuro

They worshiped another Middle Age, located in the future

Não no passado

Not in the past

Sendo incapazes de acompanhar

Unable to catch on

A baba Babel de economias

The Babel gibberish of Economics

As mil teorias da economia

The thousand economical theories

Recitadas na televisão

Announced on TV

Tais irredutíveis ateus

Such irreducible atheists

Simularam uma religião

Simulated a creed

E o espírito era o sexo de Pixote, então

Pixote's sex was the spirit, so

Na voz de algum cantor de rock alemão

In the voice of some German rock singer

Com o ódio aos que mataram Pixote à mão

Hating those who killed Pixote with their bare hands

Nutriam a rebeldia e a revolução

They nurtured rebelliousness and revolution

E os trinta milhões de meninos abandonados do Brasil

And the thirty million abandoned children in Brazil

Com seus peitos crescendo, seus paus crescendo

With their boobs getting bigger, with their dicks getting bigger

E os primeiros mênstruos

And their first menstruations

Compunham as visões dos seus vitrais

Composed the vision of their vitrals

E seus apocalipses mais totais

And their most complete apocalypses

E suas utopias radicais

And their radical utopias

Anjos sobre Berlim

Angels over Berlin

O mundo desde o fim

The world since the end

E no entanto era um SIM

But it was an yes

E foi, e era, e é, e será sim

It's been, it was, it is and it will be

E foi, e era, e é, e será sim

It's been, it was, it is and it will be

E foi, e era, e é, e será sim

It's been, it was, it is and it will be

E foi, e era, e é, e será sim

It's been, it was, it is and it will be

They were the other romantics, in darkness

They were the other romantics, in darkness

They made a cult of another middle age located in the future

They made a cult of another middle age located in the future

Not in the past

Not in the past

Being incapable of following

Being incapable of following

The blah blah babel of economics

The blah blah babel of economics

Recited on television

Recited on television

These irreducible atheists

These irreducible atheists

Simulated a religion

Simulated a religion

And the Spirit was the sex of Pixote

And the Spirit was the sex of Pixote

In the voice of some German rock singer

In the voice of some German rock singer

With hatred for those who killed Pixote by hand

With hatred for those who killed Pixote by hand

They nurtured rebellion and revolution

They nurtured rebellion and revolution

And the thirty million abandoned kids of Brasil

And the thirty million abandoned kids of Brasil

With their tits growing, their dicks growing

With their tits growing, their dicks growing

Their first menstruations

Their first menstruations

Composed the visions in their stainglass windows

Composed the visions in their stainglass windows

And their most complete apocalypses

And their most complete apocalypses

And their radical utopias

And their radical utopias

Angels over Berlin

Angels over Berlin

“The world since the end”

“The world since the end”

And all the while it was a yes

And all the while it was a yes

It had been, it was, it is, and will be yes

It had been, it was, it is, and will be yes

Anjos sobre Berlim

Angels over Berlin

O mundo desde o fim

The world since the end

E no entanto era um SIM

But it was an yes

E foi, e era, e é, e será sim

It's been, it was, it is and it will be

E foi, e era, e é, e será sim

It's been, it was, it is and it will be

E foi, e era, e é, e será sim

It's been, it was, it is and it will be

E foi, e era, e é, e será sim

It's been, it was, it is and it will be

E foi, e era, e é, e será sim

It's been, it was, it is and it will be

E foi, e era, e é, e será sim

It's been, it was, it is and it will be

E foi, e era, e é, e será sim

It's been, it was, it is and it will be

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