I come from a place
Where Brazil's soul is green and the river is as big as a sea
I came from a place
Pará1, the land I love the most
I come from a place
Where women named Maria came from the sky
And where women named Nazareth are impregnated by faith
That will pass on to each children that born
I come from a place
If you allow me to, in a minute I'll tell you who I am
I was born to the tribes, indigenous, black, light and darkness
Marajoaras2, copper-colored, that's how I am
I come from a place
Where little God is in a hurry to arrive
It was born two months earlier, stay there
Being wet from rain and dirting himself with açaí3
I come from a place
A place where October happens but never ends
Where the life I lived is worth a single day
A Sunday so holy I can't describe it
It should a mystery for now and forevermore
It can't be explained
It's more than just seeing this sea of people
Celebrating on the streets of Belém4
It's a fact that the word can't reach
It's not needed to ask him what he is
To the people of Pará1, the cult is
Something that I can't explain
Forget about it...
You need to come
To see with your soul what you can't see with your eyes
You need to have
Simplicity so you'll cry without understanding it
Maybe then
You'll see that this rope ties us all
Without differing us from one another, together in the same knot
The knot was made by the hands of the mother of God
I know it's weird
To put the Holy and the sinner ones in the same heaven
The pure and the profane, pain and laughter, freed and culprit
Welcome to the cult
It should a mystery for now and forevermore
It can't be explained
It's more than just seeing this sea of people
Celebrating on the streets of Belém4
It's a fact that the word can't reach
It's not needed to ask him what he is
To the people of ParáPará1, the cult is
Something that I can't explain
Forget about it...
1. a. b. c. A Brazilian state2. a pre-Columbian era society that flourished on Marajó island at the mouth of the Amazon River3. a fruit common in Brazil4. a. b. The capital city of the Brazilian state of Pará