VIDEO: Carmen Souza "Sem Valor" and "Sodade"

"Sem Valor" Live in Rotterdam

Sem Valor
Included at VERDADE CD

"Life has lost its value, and the world has no record of when that happened, people die every day in car bombs, and it's natural, people suffer everyday in the hands of others, and it's nothing new, children are abducted and abused, and it's just a regular day for all of us.
Money and power are in the top of the chain, what will Men do when there is no water left on earth?
What will that power be of use for them?
What will they do when there is no more food left for anyone?
May God have mercy on us on that day..."

Oiá vida esbanjod sem valor
Moda folha sec na outon ta cai
Ta voá um hoje outr manhã
Na indiferença ninguém ta para
Mund ta continua sê curs
Vida ta continuá ta passa na nos frente tud dia

Vida ca ta dod sê devid valor
Dia ta passá ninguém ta oiá sê côr
Moda mar sem azul
Arvore sem verde
Gent ta vrod pa nôs centre

Fidj ta odiá sês mãe
Pai ta nega ses fidj
Irmon ta da cob irmon
Vida oi, vida oi iaia ta sem valor

Senhores ta passa tud dia na sês poltrona
Ta luta pa um cent qui ta falta na sês milhon
Esh ta passa derriba de tud alguém qui travessa na sês camim
Sês poder ê lembrod na tud mund
Sês riqueza ê invejod pa tud gent

Ah cumpad
Dia sta ta tchiga qui nem bô fome nem bô sede bô pudi sacia
Tanto dinhero tanto poder
Cu terra secu, cu terra infértil dinhero perde se valor
D'nada el ta valeb
Nada el pode cumpra
E agora quel tesouro juntado na terra
El ca ta passa di palha
El ca ta sirvi pa salvabo
El ca ta presta nem pa saciabo
Tanto tempo passado escravo dess riqueza
Tanto tempo escravo dess ambição

Bô sabe vida ta sem valor
Moda um pagina de livro em branco
Nada el tem pa dzê

Without value

Looking at wasted life without value
Like dry autumn leaves falling
One today, another tomorrow
Not making a difference to anyone
The world continues its course
Life continues to pass before our eyes everyday

Life has no value anymore
The days come and no one see's its colour
As a sea without blue
Trees with no green
We are self centred

Sons hate their mothers
Fathers deny their children
Brothers killing brothers
Life oh, life...has no value
Big men spend the whole day in their high positions
Fighting for a dime that's missing in their million
They spend their time running over anyone who crosses their way
Still
Their power is remembered in the whole world
Their Richness is envyed by everyone

Hey friend
The day is coming that not your hunger
Not even your thirst you will be able to satisfy
So much money, so much power
With a dry land, with a sterile land
Money looses its value
Nothing it is worth
Nothing it can buy
And now that treasure gathered on earth
Its nothing but hay
Its not useful to save you
Its not useful to feed you
So much time spent slave of this so called richness
So much time slave of this ambition...

Music: Theo Pas'cal & Carmen Souza
Words: Carmen Souza

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"Sodade" in Sines FMM

Carmen Souza Live Recorded concert in Sines FMM 2009
Theo Pas'cal-Double Bass
Victor Zamora-Piano
Pedro Segundo-Percussion