QUERERES
(O quereres)
(Wanting)
Caetano Veloso

Where you want a gun I’m a stick
and where you want cash I’m passion
Where you want rest I’m desire
and if I’m just desire you say no
Where you want nothing nothing’s missing
and where you fly high I’m an avalanche
Where your foot treads my soul leaps
and gains freedom in vastness

Where you want a family I’m a wild one
and where you want romanticism I’m bourgeois
Where you want La Boca I’m Belgrano
and where you want a eunuch I’m a stallion
Where you want ‘yes’ or ‘no’ I’m ‘maybe’
and where you see clearly I find no reason
Where you want a wolf I’m your brother
and if you want a cowboy I’m Taiwanese

Ah! Brutal flower of wanting
Ah! Brutal flower, brutal flower

Where you want the act I’m spirit
and if you want tenderness I’m a cyclone
Where you want free verse, pentameters
and if you’re looking for an angel I’m a woman
Where you want pleasure I’m pain
and where you want torture I’m therapy
Where you want home I’m revolution
and if you want a policeman I’m a thief

I wanted to want you, to love your love,
to build us the sweetest prison
and find the most perfect fit
all meter and rhyme and no pain
But life is real and here you have
the trap our love set for me
I want you (and you don’t want) the way I am
I don’t want you (and you don’t want) the way it is

Ah! Brutal flower of wanting
Ah! Brutal flower, brutal flower

Where you want elections I’m vice
and where you want romance I’m rock’n’roll
Where you want the moon I’m the sun,
where you want pure nature, insecticide
And where you want mystery I’m the light
Where you want a song I’m the whole world
Where you want Lent I’m February
And where you want a medicine man I’m a missile

Your wanting and desiring in the end
what in me is so different from myself
makes me want you and not want you,
makes me care for you and not your wanting
infinitively personal
And wanting to want you endlessly,
to learn by wanting you like this, the sum total
of the love there is and is not in me.

Pedro Aznar: Vocals, Bass
Andrés Beeuwsaert: Keyboards
Facundo Guevara: Percussion