Rui Veloso — Nativa song lyrics and translation
The page contains the lyrics and English translation of the song "Nativa" by Rui Veloso.
Lyrics
Sorriste-me junto ao rio
Quando de febre eu morria
Entre delirio palustres
E suores me consumia
Eu ardia em fogo lento
Quando me deste agasalho
Passaste em mim um umguento
Muito mais fresco do que orvalho
Redimiste-me nativa
As penas do meu regredo
Mantiveste a minha alma vida
Porti voltei a ser ledo
Adorei deus em eresia
Dei-lhe outra face sagrada
E a nossa volta no chao
Foi crescendo uma erva mestiada
Deste-me conchas do mar
E um sorriso na boca
E eu nada tinha pra dar
Que se comparasse em troca
Dei-te os ferros da razao
Dei-te o valor do metal
O castigo e o perdao
E a gramatica do mal
Dei-te a dor no crussifixo
Dei-te a cinza do prazer
Se nao fosse eu era outro
E antes eu do que um qualquer
Dei-te a minha lingua me Na tardes desse vagar
O meu bem mais precioso
Que eu tinha pra te dar
E esse meu falar antigo
De branco fez-se mulato
Um dialecto criolo
Um visso novo no mato
Lyrics translation
You smiled at me by the river
When I died of fever
Among delirium marshes
And sweat consumed me
I burned on a slow fire
When you gave me a tracksuit
You passed on me an ointment
Much fresher than dew
You redeemed me native
The sorrows of my regret
You kept my soul alive
Ports I'm back to being ledo
I worshiped God in heresy
I gave him another Holy face
And our return to chao
It was growing a mixed herb
You gave me seashells
And a smile in your mouth
And I had nothing to give
That if compared in return
I gave you the Irons of reason
I gave you the value of metal
Punishment and loss
And the grammar of evil
I gave you the pain in the crussifixo
I gave you the ashes of pleasure
If it wasn't for me it would be another
And before me than any
I gave you my tongue me in the afternoons of that wander
My most precious asset
That I had to give you
And this old talk of mine
White became mulatto
A Creole dialect
A new visso in the Bush