The Day The Deaf Went Blind
The Day The Deaf Went Blind
The world disappeared,
but only for an instant
Then boundaries died
and shape went extinct
And the world reappeared as blackness
Nothing was something,
as huge as a thousand oceans
They ripped pages out of books
to build their fires
They felt the earth vibrating
like a newborn child
They stripped off all their clothes,
they gave themselves new names
Even god himself fell apart,
life itself became profane
Notions of nations became a joke
All bodies became beautiful
On the day the deaf went blind
The world disappeared,
but only for an instant
Then boundaries died
and shape went extinct
And the world reappeared as blackness
Nothing was something,
as huge as a thousand oceans
They ripped pages out of books
to build their fires
They felt the earth vibrating
like a newborn child
They stripped off all their clothes,
they gave themselves new names
Even god himself fell apart,
life itself became profane
They touched grass for the first time
They made love with
every inch of their bodies
On the day the deaf went blind
They touched grass for the first time
They made love with
every inch of their bodies
On the day the deaf went blind.
O Dia em que os Surdos Ficaram Cegos
O mundo desapareceu,
mas só por um instante
Então as fronteiras morreram
e a forma se extinguiu
E o mundo reapareceu como escuridão
Nada era algo,
como mil oceanos
Arrancaram páginas de livros
para fazer suas fogueiras
Sentiram a terra vibrando
como um recém-nascido
Tiraram toda a roupa,
daram novos nomes a si mesmos
Até Deus se desfez,
a vida se tornou profana
Noções de nações viraram piada
Todos os corpos se tornaram belos
No dia em que os surdos ficaram cegos
O mundo desapareceu,
mas só por um instante
Então as fronteiras morreram
e a forma se extinguiu
E o mundo reapareceu como escuridão
Nada era algo,
como mil oceanos
Arrancaram páginas de livros
para fazer suas fogueiras
Sentiram a terra vibrando
como um recém-nascido
Tiraram toda a roupa,
daram novos nomes a si mesmos
Até Deus se desfez,
a vida se tornou profana
Tocaram a grama pela primeira vez
Fizeram amor com
todo o corpo
No dia em que os surdos ficaram cegos
Tocaram a grama pela primeira vez
Fizeram amor com
todo o corpo
No dia em que os surdos ficaram cegos.