Caetano Veloso
앨범 : A Foreign Sound

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade
the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun
and moon
To understand you know too soon
there is no sense in trying
Pointed threats
they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
the hollow horn
Plays wasted words
proves to warn
That he not busy bein
born is busy dying
Temptation's page flies
out the door
You follow
find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan
but unlike before
You discover
that you'd just be one more
person crying
So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright Ma
I'm only sighing
As some warn victory
some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes
of those that call
To make all that should be
killed to crawl
While others say don't
hate nothing at all
except hatred
Disillusioned words
like bullets bark
As human gods aim
for their mark
Make everything
from toy guns that spark
To flesh colored Christs
that glow in the dark
It's easy to see
without looking too far
that not much is really sacred
While preachers preach
of evil fates
Teachers teach
that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred dollar plates
Goodness hides
behind its gates
But even the president
of the United States sometimes
must have to stand naked
And though the rules
of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games
that you got to dodge
And it's alright Ma
I can make it
Advertising signs that con
You into thinking you are the one
That can do
what's never been done
That can win
what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes
on all around you
You lose yourself
you reappear
You suddenly find
you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand
with nobody near
When a trembling
distant voice unclear
Startles your sleeping
ears to hear
that somebody thinks
they really found you
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know
there is no answer to fit
To satisfy
insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind
and not forget
That it's not he
or she or them
or it that you belong to
Although the masters
make the rules
For the wise men
and the fools
I got nothing Ma
To live up to
Old lady judges
watch people in pairs
Limited in sex
they dare
To push fake morals
insult and stare
While money doesn't talk
it swears
Obscenity who really cares
propaganda all is phony
While them that defend
what they cannot see
With a killer's pride security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think
death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
life sometimes must get lonely
My eyes collide head on
with stuffed
Graveyards false gods
I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say Okay I've had enough
what else can you show me
And if my thought dreams
could be seen
They'd probably put my head
in a guillotine
But it's alright Ma
It's life and life only