“Índios” (Legião Urbana, 1986)
Source: Lucaseisinger, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
This past week saw the 25th anniversary of Renato Russo’s death (October 11, 1996) on the same day that the United States officially recognized Indigenous Peoples’ Day for the first time.
“Indians”
Continued from yesterday…
What I wouldn’t give at least once
To believe for an instance in everything that exists
And to believe that the world is perfect
And that all people are happy
What I wouldn’t give at least once
To make the world know that your name
Is in everything and even so
Nobody even at least thanks you
What I wouldn’t give at least once
For the most beautiful tribe
Of the most beautiful Indians
Not to be attacked for being innocent
I wanted the danger and I even bled alone, understand
That way I could bring you back to me
When I discovered that it’s always just you
Who understands me from beginning to end
And it’s only you who has the cure for my addiction
Of insisting on this nostalgia that I feel
For everything that I haven’t yet seen
They gave us mirrors and we saw a sick world
I tried to cry and I couldn’t