Como Nossos Pais [English translation]

I don't want to tell you, my dear love,

the things I picked up from vinyl records

I want to tell you the way I've been spending my life and all the things that have happened to me

To live is better than to dream

And I know that love is something good

But I also know that any singing is second1 to anyone's life

For that, watch out baby, there's danger around the corner

They won and the traffic light is red to us, those who are young

To hug your brother and kiss your girl on the street

Your arm, your lips and your voice were meant

You ask me about my passions

I answer I'm enchanted just like some new invention

I will remain in this city, I won't go back to the sertão2

Since I can notice in the wind the smell of the new season

I know everything full well through the raw wound in my heart

Too long ago I saw you on the street, windswept hair, young people together

On the walls of memory this is the most hurtful picture to remember

It breaks my heart3 to realize that even though we've done everything we've done

We are still just the same and we still live

Just like our parents

Our cultural icons4 are still the same and the appearances aren't able to fool anybody, no

You say that after them nobody else came along.

You might even say that I'm out of the loop or that I'm making it up

Yet you're the one who loves the past and is unable to see

You're the one who loves the past and is unable to see

That that which is new is ever coming.

I now realize that whoever ignited me with the thoughts on newer consciousness and youth

Is at home in the hands of God, keeping track of the evil metal

It breaks my heart to realize that even though we've done everything we've done

We are still just the same and we're still living

Still the same and still living

Just like our parents.

1. Literally "is smaller"2. The vast semi-arid, remote and sparsely inhabited inland portion of Northeastern Brazil.3. Literally: "my pain", likely not some physical pain.4. Literally: "idols"

• Artist:Elis Regina
• Album:Falso Brilhante (1976)