Sera - To fight for what? If it is without wanting; who will protect us?

Legião Urbana — "Urban Legion" in Portuguese — is one of the most successful rock bands in Brazil's history. Originally created in 1983, the band continued to exist until 1996, with the death of its vocalist, Renato Russo. Many elements helped shape the identity of Legião Urbana. Consciously or not, Renato Russo, the main singer, was heavily influenced by The Smiths, particularly Morrissey, in his extremely personal lyrics and idiosyncratic on-stage performance. He was also influenced by Joy Division's Ian Curtis. Thematically, Russo and the other members were also influenced by literature, especially that of Portuguese poet Luís de Camões, whose poetry is featured in more than one of the band's songs. Despite the death of Russo and the group's disbanding, Legião Urbana continues to be the third best-selling artist in Brazil, with approximately 350,000 albums sold per year as of 2003. With more than 13 million records sold, the band continues to be very well-known among young Brazilians. Legião Urbana was, and remains, loved because of the songs remain timeless and whose words told of many aspects: love, spiritualism, politics, family, sex, drugs. The raw reality of these issues struck a chord with many, including Russo himself. A well-known characteristic of the band is that they made very few music videos, and by the low quality of the few ones they agreed to make. Renato Russo hated to make them. Renato Russo was the former creator of the band, vocalist, played guitars, bass or keyboards, and wrote or co-wrote most of the band's songs.

(Portuguese lyrics for Sera)
Será
Letra: Renato Russo
Música: Dado Villa-Lobos/Renato Russo/Marcelo Bonfá

Tire suas mãos de mim
Eu não pertenço a você
Não é me dominado assim
Que você vai me entender

Eu posso estar sozinho
Mas eu sei muito bem aonde estou
Você pode até duvidar
Acho que isso não é amor.

Será isso imaginação?
Será que nada vai acontecer?
Será que é tudo isso em vão?
Será que vamos conseguir vencer?

Nos perderemos entre monstros
Da nossa própria criação
Serão noites inteiras
Talvez por medo da escuridão

Ficaremos acordados
Imaginando alguma solução
Pra que esse nosso egoísmo
Não destrua nosso coração.

Brigar pra quê
Se é sem querer
Quem é que vai
Nos proteger?

Será que vamos ter
Que responder
Pelos erros a mais
Eu e você?

(My English version for Sera)
Will be
Lyrics: Renato Russo
Music: Data Villa-Lobos/Renato Russo/Marcelo Bonfá

Takes off your hands of me
I don't belong you
It's not dominated me thus
That you will understand me

Maybe I'm alone
But I know very well where I am
You can until doubting
I find that this is not love.

Will be this one imagination?
Will be that nothing its to happen?
Will be that everything in vain?
Will be that we'll keep winning?

We will lose ourselves between monsters
From our proper creation
It will be entire nights
Perhaps from fear of the darkness

We will be waked up
Imagining some solution
For that this our egoism
Doesn't destroy our heart.

To fight for what?
If it is without wanting
Who will
Protect us?

Will be that we'll to have
That to answer
For more errors
You and me?