Testamento [English translation]

You who only make money to save

What is there, tell me, what is there to it?

You’ll see one day

To what coldness you’ll walk into

Above a slab stone

Below the darkness

It’s fire, brother! It’s fire, brother!

(Spoken)

And well, friend, like they used to say, the hole is even lower… And you,

with your entire treasure chest, will fall there in complete solitude, thinking

that you weren’t able to take with you anything that you mustered: just your gala suit. What a hole, huh, my man, what a hole….

(Sung)

You who don’t stop to think

That time is short and won’t stop passing by

You’ll see, one day, such remorse!

Oh how good it is to stop

See the sun set

Or see a sun rise

And switch off, and switch off

(Spoken)

Yet you, such hope… stock market, corporate bonds, working capital, public relations (don’t forget your tie!), protocols, commendations, caviar, champagne

(don’t forget your tie!), love with no passion, body without a soul, thinking without spirit

(don’t forget your tie!), and one fine day, a heart attack; or much worse, a psychiatrist

(Sung)

You who only know how to usufruct

And have women only to use or show off

You’ll see one day

What den you went to stir!

Woman was made

For love and for forgiveness

Don’t fall in anything else, don’t fall

(Spoken)

You, for example, are there with a doll besides you, cute and

chic, a believer that you are master and lord of material things. Yes, friend,

she is still far away, lost in a lyrical and confused world, full of

songs, adventure and magic. And you don’t even touch her soul. Yes,

'woman are very strange', 'very strange'

(Sung)

You who don’t like to enjoy

So you don’t suffer, nor smile, nor cry

You’ll see one day

In what coldness you’ll walk in!

Above a slab stone

Below the darkness

It’s fire, brother! It’s fire, brother!

• Artist:Vinicius de Moraes
• Album:1970