Nova Lisboa [English translation]

What's the idea?

Don't you listen your city calling for you?

Come on

Don't say you have to go out to let it happen

I will not even try, hey

If the city wants, let it flow

I will not even try, hey, hey

Even without knowing, let it hold tight

Come and feel, feel, feel this new Lisbon

Feel, feel, feel this new Lisbon

Come and feel, feel, feel this hot Lisbon

Feel, feel, feel this new Lisbon

What's the idea?

What's the idea?

But what's the idea?

What's the idea?

Where did all these people came from, I don't know

They say we are trendy, but I don't even want to know

There, everyone is feeling good but I don't like

To sell saudade1 or morabeza2

I will not even try, hey

If the batuku3 goes, let it flow

I will not even try, hey, hey

Even without knowing, let it hold tight

Come and feel, feel, feel this new Lisbon

Feel, feel, feel this new Lisbon

Come and feel, feel, feel this hot Lisbon

Feel, feel, feel this new Lisbon

What's the idea?

What's the idea?

But what's the idea?

What's the idea?

What's the idea?

1. a unique Portuguese word that means the feeling of hurt and nostalgia, caused by the absence, disappearance, distance or deprivation of people, times, places or things to which one has been affectionately connected and wishes to have again in the present2. a word from Cape Verdean Creole that means kindness, lovelyness3. cylindrical wooden percussion instrument, covered with skin at one end and similar to the drum