Oração ao Tempo [English translation]

You are such a handsome gentleman

Such as my son's face

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I'll ask you a wish

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Composer of fates

The drum of all rhythms

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I come to an agreement with you

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Because you are so inventive

And seem continuous

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You are one of the most beautiful gods.

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May you be even more alive

In the sound of my refrain

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Listen well to what I say

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I ask you the authentic pleasure

And the exact movement

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When the time be propitious

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So that my spirit

Earn a well-marked brightness

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And I may spread benefits

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What will we use for this

It is kept as a secret

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Only with you and me

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And when I'm gone

Out of your circle

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I will not be and you will not have been

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But I still believe

That we can combine ourselves

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At another level of bond

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So I ask you that

And I offer you compliments

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Over the rhymes of my style

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• Artist:Caetano Veloso
• Album:Cinema Transcendental