Jesus Chorou [English translation]

Guess what?

Clear and salty,

Fits in an eye and weights a ton.

It tastes like the sea,

It can be discrete.

Tenant of pain,

Favourite dwelling.

When it is all quiet it comes,

Hostage of vengeance,

Sister of despair

Rival of hope.

It might be caused by vermin and mundanes

And the thorn of the cruel

Flower that you love.

Lover of drama,

Comes to my bed,

Meaning it, and without asking, makes me suffer.

And I, judging myself so strong,

And I, thinking I was the deal,

I'll be weak when others of these come.

If this is all crazy and slow,

In this moment,

Let me walk against the wind.

What good is it if I'm tough but with a vulnerable heart?

Not the wind, it is smooth, but also cold and relentless.

(True that) Smudged the poet's sad words.

(Yeah) Rolled down the prophet's brown face.

Vermin, get out of the way,

A man's tear is about to fall,

This is my occurrence bulletin for eternity.

They say men don't cry,

Yeah, right.

Don't come to the group, bro,

Jesus cried.

Damn, look, tramp.

I'm telling you, I'm going crazy.

What a wonderful world.

What to do when the fortress trembled,

And almost everything that was best around you

Has been corrupted.

"-Hey, hold on, take it slowly, thug,

Where's the immortal spirit from Capão?

Wash your face on the sink's sacred water,

Nothing like a day after another.

What? It's me, your right side.

You're shook up, why did you come?

Nigga, it's just like that!

I don't sleep well, dream almost all night.

I wake up tense, dizzy and with dark circles.

In my mind, feelings of sorrow and grudge,

Something shook me up last night.

- Hello!

- Yo, sleeping to much eh dude, a thousand things happening and you're there.

- What time is it?

- It's twenty past noon, look

the thing is,

Im not kidding you, look,

It's about something hot.

Yesterday i was hanging out

With this very cool dude,

You have to meet him.

Maybe you should call him, who knows,

He even rapped in the recent past.

- Yeah.

- ...just hear this,

You won't believe it.

When people must be naive, they are, just pay attention.

Look at this: i stopped to smoke a joint as medicine,

With some boys there and such, trafficking in the buildings,

One that got there late, asked for a couple of pulls,

What, a rich guy, young and shit,

Smoke goes, smoke comes, he got wasted,

Opened up like a flower, got insane,

I was there with two other bros and a girl,

In a silver Tempra, beautiful, with filmed glass, listening to Guina,

Oh, he got sloppy, talked a lot about you.

- Like what?

- This "Brown" dude, all thinking he's so good.

Let him slip and go singing in my neighborhood,

Let's see if he's all that good when he sees the squares.

Slums my ass, only thinks about himself,

Full of money and you guys there, in the poison.

And his face, bro?

Each person with its own business,

Anything for the greens, some kill, some die.

Myself, if I get the chance, I'll go away anytime,

I'll shine on the other side of the hurry,

I'll buy a rich house and then I'll rent it,

They'll call me sir, not common.

But for him only the south zone is good,

Says he'll get us out, we should charge it.

We want whatever he wants, come and get me,

I don't suck up to anybody.

And me? I just registered, i wasn't from the neighborhood,

The guys heard it all, nobody said an 'A'.

- Who has a mouth speaks whatever comes to mind just to build a name,

To get attention of women and men.

I love my race, I fight for the color,

Whatever I do is for us, for love.

If you dont understand who I am, or what I do,

Don't understand the pain and the tears of the clown.

The world is on the verge of decomposition,

Transforms a brother of mine in an unhappy vermin.

And my mom said:

"- Paulo, wake up, think of the future and that this is an illusion,

The black people don't care about this.

Look at how much I've suffered, what I am and what I was.

Envy kills, there's too many bad people.

- Mom, don't talk like that, otherwise I wont be able to sleep,

My love for you already can't fit Saturn."

Money is good, I do want it, if that's the question,

But lady Ana made me a man, not a hooker!

Hey, you, whoever you are, to be a seed I didn't come,

So, no terror.

Invisible enemy, colourless Judas.

I was born to be chased, alright,

For only 30 coins the brother was corrupted.

Shoot the first stone whoever has anything related to that about me.

Where's my smile? Where is it? Yeah, who stole it?

Humanity is evil, and even Jesus cried.

Tears...

Tears...

Jesus cried.

Red and blue, hotel, blinks only in the

Dark gray of the skies.

Rain falls outside and increases the rythm,

Alone, I'm now my own intimate enemy.

Bad memories come, good thoughts go,

Help me, when I'm alone I think about too much shit.

People I believe in, that I like and admire,

Fought for justice and piece and got shot:

Malcom X, Gandhi, Lennon, Marvin Gaye,

Che Guevara, 2Pac, Bob Marley and

The evangelic Martin Luther King.

I remember that a brother of mine saying:

- Don't throw pearls to the pigs, brother,

Throw them pigwash, they prefer it like that,

You have to take advantage.

- Christ has died for millions,

But walked with only twelve, and one got weak.

Slums: empty bodies without ethics,

Fill the lines heading for the electric chair.

I know that you jbiw what's frustration,

It's a villain-making machine.

I think of a thousand things, I'm going crazy,

And when the termite sees me, it says:

- Famous as shit, tough, yeah, brother.

Don't make up your own world, dude, life's short.

Only models around hitting on you,

Tell them to suck it and walk away right after.

Going throughout the night just in your underwear,

If it's me, dude, there wouldn't be anything left.

Unworthy people are the devil, they have these defects,

What? Having it or not, you grow your envy on stuff just about the same.

With my .40, I just have to want it, it's already in the mag.

- If only thiking of killing has already killed, I prefer to hear the shepherd:

- Son of mine, do not envy the violent man, nor follow any of his ways...

Tears...

They wet the medal of a winner,

Cry now and laugh later, yeah, Jesus Cried.

Tears...