Pequena Memória Para Um Tempo Sem Memória [English translation]

Memory of a time

In which fighting for our rights

Is a flaw that kills

It's so many inglorious fights

It's histories that history

Someday will tell

Of obscure characters

The passages, the braveries

Are seeds scattered all around this floor

Of Juvenais and Raimundos1

So many Júlios de Santana2

In a creed, with an enormous heart

Of the humiliated and offended

Explored and opressed

That tried to find a solution

Crosses that bear no name3, no bodies, no dates4

Memory of a time

In which fighting for our rights

Is a flaw that kills

And there are so many men behind the headlines

Forgotten arms that built heroes

Forces and sweats that cheer up the vedettes

Of this vaudeville country of all of us

Voices that denied a freedom that was conceded

Because it's more like blood

It's that it's more like life

Lives that feed our fire of hope

It's the battle scream

No good thing comes to those who wait5

Yeah yeah, when the Sun rises

I want to see who will remember

Yeah yeah, when the day come

I want to see who will remember

Yeah, I don't want to forget

This legion that gave itself up for a new day

Yeah, I want to sing, this hand is rough

It gave us so much joy

And we'll come out and fight

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1. It may be a reference to political killings2. There are two people named Júlio de Santana, on opposite sides of Brazilian history. One was a man from Pernambuco who is considered to be the first politic prisoner during the Brazilian military regime (1964). The other, also during the regime, is a man accused of killing at least 490 people after asked by the military forces which commanded the country.3. Crosses that are put on graves4. Birth and death dates5. A kind of antithesis to the saying 'good things come to those who wait'