“Masculino e Feminino” (Pepeu Gomes, 1982)
Source: Eu marco, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
In honor of Pepeu Gomes’s 72nd birthday today, a translation of a song that seems to have been a bit ahead of its time. (I should say the lyrics are ahead of their time; the sound is pure early eighties.) Gomes apparently wrote this song when he was married to Baby Consuelo (now Baby do Brasil), another former member of Novos Baianos, and sharing baby care and household tasks, unusual for heterosexual couples in Brazil at the time.
“Masculine and Feminine”
Being a feminine man
Doesn’t hurt my masculine side
If god is a girl and a boy
I’m male and female...
I looked at everything I’d learned
And one fine day I saw...
That being a feminine man
Doesn’t hurt my masculine side
If god is a girl and a boy
I’m male and female...
And that’s where it comes from!
My feelings of being
And that’s where it comes from!
My feeling of being
My heart!
A messenger comes to tell me
My heart!
A messenger comes to tell me...
Hail, hail happiness
Purity and fantasy
That’s how I spend everyday
Living and learning