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'