London, London Lyrics

Lyric discussion by theunderstood 

Cover art for London, London lyrics by Caetano Veloso

Somebody can tell me why Veloso eyes look for 'flying soucers'? Is that just a image o melancholy for Brazil? Or Veloso think like he's been living in another planet? :) I understand that he's missing his country and like to be in London, but not entirely like to be there. So he wants him country back. London is a place where everything it's ok an good and almost unexpectable like 'hurrying peacefully' but the poet walks the streets like going nowhere and feeling quite alien.

Bingo! He meant everything you just described there. Nice interpretation. A totally different place, different people, different language. It was as if he was living in another planet and wanted to come back home.

This song was written when caetano veloso took exile in England to scape the dictatorship in Brazil, they killed so many people during that period, this is why he says "I walk on the streets without fear". Most of the things he says on the song doesn't make much sense to us, but has a lot of meaning of what he was going thru back then.