Genius English Translations
Caetano Veloso - Os Passistas (English Translation)
Come, I'm going to touch your hip
Multiply your feet by a thousand
Look up at the sky, turn around
Sorrow follows us all our lives
But these steps will stay in our minds
And tell the world where to go
As you dance, and you don't even see
That you do
That you love
But, ah!
Two mulattos, we're a fixture
As we sit for the picture
Imprinted by the light of life

Were we to fade, during Carnaval we'd become others
Let us steal ourselves from time
And give ourselves freely to beauty, come

We, postcards with bulls from Madrid
Corcovado and thе Christ from here
Salvador, Rome, lovе
Wherever we're together
Hands and feet will multiply
The hiding places of being