Combatentes da Fortuna

This one goes out to all African leaders
Who promised us a better Africa
And gave us one worse than expected
Bunch of sons of bitches

We were slaves when they made us dream of freedom
Segregated when they made us believe in equality
They bombarded speeches of unity
And freed us from the bars of our passivity
We obeyed those combat orders
We died to be born truly free men
We fought the oppressor mercilessly
With bread and water, in our mouths only the taste of freedom
Workers, peasants on the path of revolution
They were our gods whom we worshipped
Owners of our interests, symbols of idolatry
Christianity witchcraft, socialism religion

They spoke against the rich and bourgeois
French, Dutch, against English and Portuguese
They taught us that racism had a color
That the devil was white and black is the color of the lord

You are not liberators, you are fortune fighters
And freedom will exist only as far as it is opportune
Capitalists, socialists or even communists
You are none of that, you are fortune fighters

They assassinated from Amílcar Cabral to Samora
The great leaders, sent them to the history books
They prostituted socialism and gave birth by accident
To a false capitalism, the bastard child of the West
The West paid well and they went shirtless
Caught the Acquired Budget Deficiency Virus
These revolutionaries and new entrepreneurs
Bankrupted banks with loans that were never repaid

It is not known what killed more, if it was war or hunger
Due to greed that left millions of Africans hungry
After selling everything, they started selling hunger
And profited from images of people dying of hunger

They took up arms and fought to get rich
They silenced the weapons because now there is a new way to do it
Democracy, rulers in power
They are the only alternative
You are free to choose

In this lifelong battle there are never demobilized
If it doesn't work with rallies, it works with attacks
Manipulated media and civilian sacrifices
Results, in elections we see the results

And the fortune fighters just changed uniforms
Yesterday they stole with a balalaika, today it's with a suit and tie
Today it's with the SADC
Pretending not to see
Zimbabweans condemned for the right to choose

Whipped from behind as in the time of slavery
By the same Africans who took them out of slavery
The false liberators, fortune fighters
Corrupt democracy and legitimize dictatorship

Xi, be careful because here too, there are fortune fighters
Look closely at where our country is heading
Who doesn't condemn a thief, brothers, one of two things
Either is a thief, or will steal at the opportune moment