Meninos E Meninas [English translation]

I want to find myself, but I don't know where I am

Come with me to find somewhere more quiet

Away from this mess and from this people that don't respect each other

I'm almost sure that I don't belong here

I think I like São Paulo1

I like São João2

I like São Francisco and São Sebastião3

And I like boys and girls

Maybe it is just the way how it is, and it will be always like that

It's getting complicated and, at the same time, different

I'm tired of knocking (at the door) and nobody comes to open

You left me feeling cold

I don't know what to say anymore

I made your dinner, watched you sleeping

Was your friend, took you with me

Now you tell me: what's left for me?

Let me see how good living is

It's not life the way how it is, but how things are

You didn't want to try to help me

So, whose fault is that? Whose fault is that?

I sing in Portuguese incorrectly

I think that the Imperfect doesn't belong to the past4

I change the persons

I change the pronouns5

I need oxygen, I need to have friends

I need to have money, I need caresses

I think I loved you, but now I think I hate you

They're all small things and everything shall pass

I think I like São Paulo

I like São João

I like São Francisco and São Sebastião

And I like boys and girls

1. São Paulo: the most popular brazilian city.2. São João: it might refer to the popular holiday or to a person.3. I think both are cities, although again it might be a person's name (once that he says he likes boys and girls in the next line).4. In Portuguese we have the Passado Imperfeito (imperfect past, it is a verbal form. Hence he jokes with the name.5. These two lines he gets confused with the persons (1st, 2nd and 3rd person) and the pronouns, when he's going to speak (or sing, since he says he sings incorrectly).