Out There [Portuguese translation]

The world is cruel, the world is wicked

It's I alone whom you can trust in this whole city

I am your only friend

I who keep you, teach you, feed you, dress you

I who look upon you without fear

How can I protect you, boy, unless you

Always stay in here, away in here

You are deformed (I am deformed)

And you are ugly (And I am ugly)

And these are crimes

For which the world shows little pity

You do not comprehend (You are my one defender)

Out there they'll revile you as a monster (I am a monster)

Out there they will hate and scorn and jeer (Only a monster)

Why invite their calumny and consternation?

Stay in here, be faithful to me (I'm faithful)

Grateful to me (I'm grateful)

Do as I say, obey

And stay in here (I'll stay in here)

Safe behind these windows and these parapets of stone

Gazing at the people down below me

All my life I watch them as I hide up here alone

Hungry for the histories they show me

All my life I memorize their faces

Knowing them as they will never know me

All my life I wonder how it feels to pass a day

Not above them but part of them

And out there living in the sun

Give me one day out there

All I ask is one to hold forever

Out there where they all live unaware

What I'd give, what I'd dare

Just to live one day out there

Out there among the millers and the weavers and their wives

Through the roofs and gables I can see them

Every day they shout and scold and go about their lives

Heedless of the gift it is to be them

If I was in their skin, I'd treasure every instant

Out there strolling by the Seine

Taste a morning out there

Like ordinary men who freely walk about there

Just one day and then I swear

I'll be content with my share

Won't resent, won't despair

Old and bent I won't care

I'll have spent one day out there