Apenas Um Rapaz Latino-americano [English translation]

I'm just a Latin American boy

With no money in the bank

With no relatives of consequence

From the countryside

But I have in my mind a radio song

In which an old composer from Bahia* told me

"Everything is divine, everything is wonderful"

But I have in my mind a radio song

In which an old composer from Bahia told me

"Everything is divine, everything is wonderful"

I've heard many records

Talked to people

Followed my path

Conversations, music in the night

And I don't have a single friend

Who still believes all that, no**

Everything changes!

And justly so

I'm just a Latin American boy

With no money in the bank

With no relatives of consequence

From the countryside

But I know

All is forbidden***

But I'd like to say

All is allowed

Even kissing you in the darkness of a movie theater

Where no one can see us

But I know

All is forbidden**

But I'd like to say

All is allowed

Even kissing you in the darkness of a movie theater

Where no one can see us

So don't ask me to write you

A song as it's supposed to be****

Well-behaved, white, soft

Very clean, very light

Sounds, words are daggers

And I can't sing properly

Without meaning to hurt someone

But don't worry, my friend

With this horrible things I'm saying

It's only a song

Life is actually different

I mean...

Life is way worse than it

I'm just a Latin American boy

With no money in the bank

Please, don't point your gun in the saloon*****

I'm only the singer

But if after I sing

You still want to shoot me

Kill me at once

In the afternoon, at 3 p.m.

Because I have plans for the night

And I can't miss it because of you

But if after I sing

You still want to shoot me

Kill me at once

In the afternoon, at 3 p.m.

Because I have plans for the night

And I can't miss it because of you

I'm just a Latin American boy

With no money in the bank

With no relatives of consequence

From the countryside

But I know nothing is divine

Nothing, nothing is wonderful

Nothing, nothing is secret

Nothing, nothing is mysteryous, no******