Soldados da Paz

Dad, dad
Let's sing that song about firefighters
Wiyo wiyo
Yes, yes, that song about water

Welcome to the pearl of the Indian Ocean
Where it rains but there's no water
Only debts fall from the sky, but there's no sorrow
The people always pay for the choices they make
The price of war and also the price of peace
The price of rice and also the price of gas
But the price of water that doesn't come out hurts the most
While multinational companies multiply
Soon our baths will be weekly
And where will the water come from to wash the vegetables?
Tseke and other governmental Cacanas
Cholera in hospitals, pork on your plates
Where will the water come from to wash your asses?
Sitting in offices shitting on us
Without water there's no life, no music, no voice

So I ask the firefighters, soldiers of peace
Bring your water, because it's not enough anymore
I ask the firefighters, soldiers of peace
Bring your water because it's not enough anymore
W-A-T-E-R

I heard there was water for everyone on the seminar tables
Well bottled for the businessmen
High officials of the State apparatus
Turned water into a private business
Millions of citizens are millions of meticais
Now screw the election results
All taps will drip for the Boss's
And the children will even parade in Roll's Royces
Multi-choices, either you pay or you pay
Yes, because if you don't pay, you pay with your life
Water in the same network of interests
Mozambicans, Americans, Chinese or Portuguese
Skin color doesn't matter, all wait 9 months
To come to this land and exploit these
Poor wretches, children of peasants
Born to work for the children of the bourgeoisie

So I ask the firefighters, soldiers of peace
Bring your water, because it's not enough anymore
I ask the firefighters, soldiers of peace
Bring your water because it's not enough anymore
W-A-T-E-R

My brothers and sisters
Water is life, water is not business
Let's not do business with everything around us
The fuel business that robs us every day is enough
Let's not do business with water too
Children need water to drink and grow
And it can't be any water, we want pure water
Pure water comes from the mountains
Why do we have to drink dirty water?