The song “Pais e Filhos”, by Legião Urbana, was released on the album “As Quatro Estações” in 1989. In it, Renato Russo reflects on several topics, but the main one is the relationship between parents and children.
At a certain point, Russo begins to list several situations that usually happen in this type of relationship and that everyone can somehow identify with or know someone who has been through a similar situation – such as moving houses, separating parents, taking care of parents when they stay. older etc.
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In the case of the famous excerpt “I live with my mother / but my father comes to visit”, the target of this analysis, the singer and composer is talking precisely about this collection of moments that are representative of this relationship – in this case, the separated parents. Check out the analysis of some websites about this excerpt below.
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“When he says he lives with his mother and his father comes to visit, a lot of people go through that. It’s a phrase from someone with separated parents. He stays with his father on the weekend. Renato Russo brings characteristics of a relationship between father and son, like when he says ‘my children take care of me’, for example. He makes a collage of several moments like that. A great poet knows how to bring accurate phrases to songs.”
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“In short, the song deals with themes that, despite being different, are interconnected: a child questioning something for their parents; children who grew up and started to take care of their parents; the relationship of a person with separated parents; the situation of people who do not have a family or home and the relationship between those who live with their parents”.
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Scientific article “The importance of contextual factors in the song ‘Pais e Filhos’ by Legião Urbana, by Elys Corrêa Thompson and Maria da Penha Pereira Lins.
“Renato Russo gives voice to several stories, first a child wanting to know the meaning of the world, then parents who take care of their children, then the story of separated parents, children/young people who have nowhere to live, parents who move frequently , finally, children who live with their parents. There are those who say that these verses make no sense, however, Renato Russo, even though he writes about his life, also writes about his world, which includes several stories, not just his own. or the girl who killed herself. And what he did was that, he cited different conflicts between parents and children.”
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“Renato leaves his role as counselor and comes back to bring us more details about these relationships and addresses trivial issues for parents and children alike. Soon questions from childhood that even in old age could never be unraveled are put on the agenda” He tells me, for Why is the sky blue?/Explains the great fury of the world.
Different relationship conditions are also targets of Renato Russo, who incorporates character dialogues into the music, sometimes because they are parents who receive care from their children in old age (care), sometimes because they are children who don’t even know who their parents are (abandonment). Children who live with their parents (presence) and children who live anywhere (absence). This is the great mystery of the paragraph: it is a game of antitheses.”
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In this part, the lyrics ramble on about the responsibilities and relationships between the band members. Naturally, with so much success came a lot of responsibility. This was much questioned among members, as these responsibilities were often left aside.
Thus, Renato Russo translates these discussions and conflicts of the band as the conflicts of the main character of the song. Therefore, there is a reflection on life, on love and compassion.
More polyphony in the next verses. In “tell me why the sky is blue / and explain the great fury of the world” it could be anyone who has these doubts about the world, or even a “me” who asks himself.
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Why do we have such a fierce and violent world, are there no places in this world that are love and not hate? But this world is changing, things are not like they used to be. “It’s my children who take care of me”, where a father says the hierarchical inversion, when the children are responsible and think about the well-being of the family and not just theirs. “I live with my mother, but my father comes to visit me” an “I” with separated parents, and then another with no father or mother:
“I live on the street, I have no one / I live anywhere”, street children, abandoned. And for those who have a family, “I’ve lived in so many houses that I don’t even remember” without a fixed home, moving whenever a rental contract expires or simply “I live with my parents”. In this verse we have an allusion to children who, even after graduating, still live in their parents’ house.
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