ROSA DE HIROSHIMA written by Gerson Conrad and Vinícius de Moraes, English translation by Joel Sattler

New title: “The Rose of Hiroshima”

Think of all the seedling children, telepathically

Think of all the blinded girls so inexactly

Think of all the women crippled ever turning

Think of all the scars like roses red and burning

Forget me not the red red rose so esoteric

The rose of Hiroshima rose we all inherit

The rose of radiation don’t know when it’s gonna come

The flower of the dead the rose of the atomic bomb

No perfume no color red no rose no nothing

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Original lyrics in Portuguese by Vinicius de Moraes

Pensem nas crianças mudas, telepáticas

Pensem nas meninas cegas, inexatas

Pensem nas mulheres, rotas alteradas

Pensem nas feridas como rosas cálidas

Mas! Oh! não se esqueçam da rosa, da rosa

Da rosa de Hiroshima, a rosa hereditária

A rosa radioativa, estúpida inválida

A rosa com cirrose a anti-rosa atômica

Sem cor, sem perfume, sem rosa, sem nada

Based on a recording performed by Secos & Molhados:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrJgYwIlG0Y

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