English lyrics to Gilberto Gil´s "Drão"

I knew this song when I was a teenager, thanks to my musician dad, who played it in his guitar. The introduction wooed me, and the lyrics are lovely. The song refers to Gil´s ex-wife Sandra Gadelha. He wrote it when they divorced and it talks how his love for her didn´t end, but changed, such as a seed turns into a tree, and in the case f wheat, it turns to bread. Just a trivia fact about Sandra´s nickname. Gil and Caetano Veloso would call her Drinha (Sandrinha), the only one who called her Drão (Sandrão) was Maria Bethânia, Caetano´s sister. Hope you guys enjoy it.

Drão

Gilberto Gil

Drão!
O amor da gente
É como um grão
Uma semente de ilusão
Tem que morrer pra germinar
Plantar nalgum lugar
Ressuscitar no chão
Nossa semeadura
Quem poderá fazer
Aquele amor morrer
Nossa caminhadura
Dura caminhada
Pela noite escura...

Drão!
Não pense na separação
Não despedace o coração
O verdadeiro amor é vão
Estende-se infinito
Imenso monolito
Nossa arquitetura
Quem poderá fazer
Aquele amor morrer
Nossa caminhadura
Cama de tatame
Pela vida afora

Drão!
Os meninos são todos sãos
Os pecados são todos meus
Deus sabe a minha confissão
Não há o que perdoar
Por isso mesmo é que há de haver mais compaixão
Quem poderá fazer
Aquele amor morrer
Se o amor é como um grão
Morre, nasce trigo
Vive, morre pão
drão!
drão!

Dree

English lyrics by Rita Cammarota

Dree!

Our love is like a seed

An illusion so to speak

It has to die before it grows

Choose a good place to sow

Watch it reborn so slow

Like our own life on Earth

Who in the world can try

And make our love die

As we walk such a long road

A hard path, you know

Through the darkest night

Dree!

Don´t think that we can break apart

Don´t shatter my trusting heart,

Trust me, true love is vain

It looks so infinite

Like a monolith

Our own construction

Who in the world can try

And make our long love die

As we walk such a long road

Our cosy bed mat

Wherever life will lead us

Dree!

All the boys are sane and strong

All the sins are solely mine

God knows my honest cries

There´s nothing to forgive

And that´s why I believe

Compassion will apply

Who in the world can try

And make our long love die

If love is like a seed

Dies and sprouts like wheat

Lives and dies like bread