Paroles et traduction Zé Ramalho - Filhos do câncer

Filhos do câncer

Hoje quero sentir-me, quando deitar-me nas pedras
Como um lagarto que dorme, na incoerência das eras
Sentar-me-ei entre feras e sentirei no seu hálito
A solução das esperas e um sofrimento esquálido
Adormecendo as uvas, reconstruindo em favas
Aconteceram as chuvas, redespertaram em lavas
Compareceram em chamas, estrangularam as falas
Carbonizaram miúdos, perpetuaram-se em galas

Filhos de freud, filhos de marx
Filhos de brecht, filhos de bach
Filhos do câncer, filhos de getúlio
Filhos do carbono, filhos de lampião

Se fosse fácil todo mundo era
Se fosse muito todo mundo tinha
Se fosse raso ninguém se afogava
Se fosse perto todo mundo vinha
Se fosse graça todo mundo ria
Se fosse frio ninguém se queimava
Se fosse claro todo mundo via
Se fosse limpo ninguém se sujava
Se fosse farto todos satisfeitos
Se fosse largo tudo acomodava
Se fosse hoje todo mundo ontem
Se fosse tudo nada aqui restava
Se fosse homem junto com mulher
Se cada bicho fosse como vou
Se fosse tudo claro pensamento
Nesse momento nada se criou

Children of Cancer

Today I want to feel, when I lie down on the stones
Like a lizard that sleeps, in the incoherence of the ages
I will sit down among the beasts and I will feel in their breath
The solution of waiting and a squalid suffering
As the grapes fall asleep, rebuilding in fava beans
The rains happened, reawakening in lavas
They appeared in flames, strangling the speeches
They carbonized children, perpetuated themselves in galas

Sons of Freud, sons of Marx
Sons of Brecht, sons of Bach
Children of cancer, sons of Getulio
Children of carbon, sons of Lampião

If it were easy, everyone would be
If there were too much, everyone would have
If it were shallow, no one would drown
If it were close, everyone would come
If it were funny, everyone would laugh
If it were cold, no one would get burned
If it were clear, everyone would see
If it were clean, no one would get dirty
If it were full, everyone would be satisfied
If it were wide, everything would fit
If it were today, everyone would be yesterday
If it were everything, nothing would be left here
If it were a man together with a woman
If each animal were like me
If it were all clear thinking
In that moment, nothing was created