Nêga (Photograph Blues) - Gilberto Gil

Nêga

You spent so blissfully

The last few days with me

Nêga

I spent so nicely too

The last few days with you

When I met you, it was so fine

I didn’t talk a lot to you

I only mentioned your smooth hair

You made a speech about shampoo

We took many, many, many photographs

Downtown

As we passed through

Nêga

You spent so blissfully

The last few days with me

Nêga

I spent so nicely too

The last few days with you

You’ve been going just where I’ve gone

All my people you have seen

I’ve been doing just what you’ve done

Now I can dig your cup of mu tea

We let our moments become, become

What they really had to be

Nêga

You spent so blissfully

The last few days with me

Nêga

I spent so nicely too

The last few days with you

Develop our photographs

As simple dreams that will come true

Perhaps they will make you laugh

Or make you sure about we two

Develop, baby, our photographs

Perhaps they will make you sure

Perhaps they will show you nothing

Nothing, but a shade of blue