Eu Estive Aqui

Though the coffins are calling I'm not coming

I'm too young to listen and I'm still scrawling on

see-saws and slides, skipping ropes and swings,

Toothpaste and trousers, watches and wedding rings.

She shouted to me under the juggernaut roar,

"This is the Bad Life, what are we here for?"

And wonderful world why are you full

of endless monotony and tiresome fools?

These people that surrounded me were damaged and done

and we were as compatible as swimming pools and slums.

And why are you grinning from ear to ear,

Isn't this the Bad Life?

Though there was leads in the petrol and bacteria in the beer

Though she moved away and left me hopeless, I was writing

I Was Here.

She said this Bad Life that I'm leading is deceiving and depriving me

I said why don't you try relieving me, while she was reading

I was stealing from the library.

And sweetness and sadness lived in sin

with built-in indigestion the new buildings held their stomachs in

Goodness and Badness were hardly anything

I wanted to love her but she was never in

Though they were taking out tongues in the land of the gun

though the sweating was getting near

Though her head was hung saying I did not become her, I keep writing

I Was Here

Though the dusts were growing in my lungs and some

were turning backs on the babies turning blue

And I adore you but before you say "I adore you too"

Say I Was Here, and so were you

Embora os caixões estejam chamando, eu não vou vir

Sou jovem demais pra ouvir e ainda tô rabiscando

balanços e escorregadores, cordas e gangorras,

creme dental e calças, relógios e alianças.

Ela gritou pra mim sob o barulho ensurdecedor,

"Essa é a Vida Ruim, pra que estamos aqui?"

E mundo maravilhoso, por que você é cheio

de monotonia sem fim e idiotas cansativos?

Essas pessoas que me cercavam estavam quebradas e acabadas

e éramos tão compatíveis quanto piscinas e favelas.

E por que você tá sorrindo de orelha a orelha,

Não é essa a Vida Ruim?

Embora houvesse chumbo na gasolina e bactéria na cerveja

Embora ela tenha se mudado e me deixado sem esperança, eu estava escrevendo

Eu Estive Aqui.

Ela disse que essa Vida Ruim que eu levo é enganosa e me priva

Eu disse, por que você não tenta me aliviar, enquanto ela estava lendo

Eu estava roubando da biblioteca.

E doçura e tristeza viviam em pecado

com indigestão embutida, os novos prédios seguravam a barriga

Bondade e Maldade eram quase nada

Eu queria amá-la, mas ela nunca estava lá.

Embora estivessem arrancando línguas na terra das armas

embora o suor estivesse chegando perto

Embora a cabeça dela estivesse baixa dizendo que eu não me tornei o dela, eu continuo escrevendo

Eu Estive Aqui.

Embora a poeira estivesse crescendo nos meus pulmões e alguns

estivessem virando as costas para os bebês ficando azuis

E eu te adoro, mas antes de você dizer "Eu também te adoro"

Diga que Eu Estive Aqui, e você também esteve.