Larbanois & Carrero — 1992 song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "1992" by Larbanois & Carrero.
Lyrics
Eram três as caravelas
Que chegaram alem d`alem mar
E a terra chamou-se América
Por ventura? por azar?
Não sabia o que fazia, não
D. Cristóvão, capitão
Trazia, em vão, Cristo em seu nome
E, em nome d`Ele, o canhão
Pois vindo a mando do Senhor
E de outros reis que, juntos
Reinam mais…
Bombas, velas não são asas
Brancas da pomba da paz
Eram só três caravelas…
E valeram mais que um mar
Quanto aos índios que mataram…
Ah! ninguém pôde contar
Quando esses homem fizeram
O mundo novo e bem maior
Por onde andavam nossos deuses
Com seus Andes, seu condor?
Que tal a civilização
Cristã e ocidental…
Deploro essa herança na língua
Que me deram eles, afinal
Diz, América que es nossa
Só porque hoje assim se crê
Há motivos para festa?
Quinhentos anos de que?
Lyrics translation
There were three caravelas
Who arrived alem d'alem sea
And the Earth was called America
Maybe? by chance?
I didn't know what I was doing, no.
Mr Christopher, captain
He carried Christ in vain in his name
And in his name the cannon
For coming at the command of the Lord
And of other kings who, together
Reign more…
Bombs, candles are not Wings
White dove of peace
There were only three caravels…
And they were worth more than a sea
As for the Indians who killed…
Ah! no one could tell
When these man did
The new and much larger world
Where did our gods go
With your Andes, your condor?
How about civilization
Christian and Western…
I deplore this heritage in the language
That they gave me, after all
Say, America is ours
Just because today it is believed so
Are there reasons to party?
Five hundred years of what?