Caetano Veloso — Podres Poderes song lyrics and translation

The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Podres Poderes" by Caetano Veloso.

Lyrics

O Melhor De Caetano Veloso
Podres Poderes
Enquanto os homens exercem seus podres poderes
Motos e fuscas avançam os sinais vermelhos
E perdem os verdes
Somos uns bossais
Queria querer gritar setessentas mil vezes
Como são lindos, como são lindos os burgueses
E os japoneses
Mas tudo émuito mais
Seráque nunca faremos senão confirmar
A incompetência da América Católica
Que sempre precisaráde ridículos tiranos?
Seráseráque seráque seráque
será?
Seráque essa minha estúpida retórica
Teráque soar, teráque se ouvir por mais zil anos?
Enquanto os homens exercem seus podres poderes Índios e padres
e bichas, negros e mulheres
E adolescentes
Fazem o carnava
Queria querer cantar afinado com eles
Silenciar em respeito ao seu transe, num êxtase
Ser indecente, mas tudo émuito ma Ou então cada paisano e cada capataz
Com sua burrice farájorrar sangue demais
Nos pantanais, nas cidades, caatingas
E nos gerai.
Seráque apenas os Hermetismos Pascoais
E os tons e os mil tons, seus sons e seus dons geniais
Nos salvam, nos salvaram dessas trevas
E nada mais?
Enquanto os homens exercem seus podres poderes
Morrer e matar de fome, de raiva e de sede
São tantas vezes gestos naturais
Eu quero aproximar o meu cantar vagabundo
Daqueles que velam pela alegria do mundo
Indo mais fundo
Tins e bens e tais.

Lyrics translation

The Best Of Caetano Veloso
Rotten Powers
While men wield their rotten powers
Motorcycles and fuses advance the red signs
And lose the Greens
We're bossals.
I wanted to want to scream seven hundred thousand times
How beautiful, how beautiful are the bourgeois
And the Japanese
But Everything is much more
It will be that we will never do anything but confirm
The incompetence of Catholic America
Who will always need ridiculous tyrants?
You'll be that you'll be that you'll be that you'll be that
is it?
Will that be my stupid rhetoric
Will it sound, will it be heard for another zil years?
While men wield their rotten powers & IACUTE;ndios and priests
and pussies, blacks and women
And adolescents
Do the carnava
I wanted to want to sing in tune with them
Silence in respect of your trance, in ecstasy
Be indecent, But Everything is too much ma or else every countryman and every Foreman
With your stupidity will make too much blood
In the marshes, in the cities, caatingas
And beget us.
It will be that only the Paschal Hermetism
And the tones and the thousand tones, their sounds and their brilliant gifts
They saved us, they saved us from this darkness
And nothing else?
While men wield their rotten powers
To die and kill with hunger, anger and thirst
Are so often natural gestures
I want to approach my singing Tramp
Of those who watch over the joy of the world
Going deeper
Tins and goods and such.