Como Nossos Pais [English translation]

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

The things I learned from song albums

I want to tell you how I've lived and everything that has happened to me

Living is better than dreaming

I know that love is a good thing

But I also know that any song is smaller than any person's life

So be careful, my dear, there's danger at the corner

They've won and the traffic lights are closed for us who are young

To hug your brother and kiss your girl on the street

This is why your arms, your lips and your voice were made

You ask me about my passion

I say I'm fascinated like a new invention

I'll stay in this city, I won't go back to the countryside

Because I can feel the new season's smell in the wind

I know about everything inside my wounded heart

It's been a long time, I saw you on the street, wind in your hair, young people gathered

In my memories' wall, this remembrance is the most painful picture

My pain is to realize that, in spite of having done everything we've done

We're still the same and we still live

Like our parents

Our idols are still the same ones and our looks aren't deceiving, no

You say that after them, nobody else has showed up

You can even say I'm out of the loop, or that I'm making things up

But you're the one who loves the past and doesn't see

You're the one who loves the past and doesn't see

That the new always comes

Now I know that the one who gave me the idea of a new conscience and youth

Is at home, kept by God, counting the vile metal

My pain is to realize that, in spite of having done everything we've done

We're still the same and we still live

Like our parents

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