Σάββατο 19 Μαΐου 2018

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Caetano Veloso- Tigresa

Tigres

A black-nailed tigress with honey-colored eyes
A woman, a beauty that happened to me
Rubbing the brown golden skin of her body against mine
Telling me that bad is in fact good, and good is actually cruel
 
While the fur of that goddess shakes to the godless wind
She tells me, quite uncertain, everything she's been through
that she was very involved in politics in 1966
And now she's a dancer at Frenetic Dancing Days
 
She tells me she used to be an actress and had a role in "Hair"
that she was happy with some men, and a woman with others
that she carries plenty of rage in her heart, as she has been giving much love
And spreading a great amount of both pleasure and pain
 
But at the same time she says that everything is going to change
Because she will be whatever she wants, creating her own place
Where mankind and nature shall be happy and live in communion
And where the tigress shall be more intimidating than the lion
 
Her feline claws left a mark in my heart
But the childish foolishness in her words did not
And then I ran to my guitar in a lament, and morning came just as blue
How good it is to be able to play an instrument!