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I am trying to find an English translation for the lyrics to the song Pecado, recorded by Caetano Veloso:
Yo no sé si es prohibido
Si no tiene perdón
Si me lleva al abismo
solo sé que es amor

Yo no sé si este amor es pecado que tiene castigo
Si es faltar a las leyes honradas
Del hombre y de Dios
Solo sé que aturde la vida
Como un torbellino
Que me arrastra, me arrastra
A tus brazos en ciega passión

Es más fuerte que yo
Que mi vida, micredo y mi sino
Es más fuerte que todo el respeto
Y el temor de Dios

Aunque sea pecado
Te quiero, te quiero lo mismo
Y anque todo me niegue el derecho
Me aferro a este amor.

Thanks.

Kathryn
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Sin

I don't know if it's forbidden
If it is unforgivable
If it damns me
I only know that it is love.

I don't know if this love is a punishable sin,
If it disrespects the honorable laws
Of man and of God,
I only know that it bewilders my life
Like a whirlwind
That carries me away, carries me away
To your arms in blind passion.

It is stronger than me,
Than my life, my belief, and my destiny
It is stronger than all that I respect
And the fear of God.

Even if it is a sin
I want you, I want you all the same
and even if all that is right would deny me,
I will cling to this love.

Guest
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Thank you so much, Kathryn!

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