Atravessei São Paulo

Have you ever wondered the price to enter History
Or noticed how achieving revitalizes us?
Remembered that every night some new mother cries?
Only those who haven't tried to fly know how painful it is to leave
But I try to keep optimism every day
Two young people without structure having a child in a pandemic
My illusory life, they say this is bohemian
I gave everything I had to live this crap
Without hypocrisy, without demagogy
How many at my age wouldn't enjoy it?
How many with my story wouldn't give up?
I accepted that life is sad and that sometimes we have joy
We have audacity, without wisdom
How many in my shoes wouldn't endure?
How many with different skin die every day?
Just because of melanin, just melancholy, God watch over us and guide

We can't stand these neuroses anymore
Government that hates the poor, devil killing because he's in uniform
I'm not in the mood for these somewhat snobbish guys
Who think fame is the focus, with ego bigger than race
I didn't get my driver's license
But I heard Um Barril de Rap and remembered that life is crazy
I didn't give you a piece of my heart
My heart was in pieces, tired, I took off your clothes

I crossed São Paulo to see you naked
To have you whole
I needed a Band-Aid
It's easy when it's on the shelf
To see you naked
To have you whole
I needed a Band-Aid
It's easy when it's on the shelf

And I don't know anything for a few years
How much time have I lost to my damages?
I drown sorrows, shallow nights, Buchanans
And I hate the rich, they don't understand my plans
They don't understand the hatred of the suburban
Why we rise and why we flaunt
Ask by which path we arrived
See that we won because we believed

I corrupted myself when I gave a hug to arrogance
We grow up without anyone knowing the traumas of your childhood
And now that these traumas reflect in a child?
It will be difficult, it's a fact, money brings security
But who took my problems off this scale?
I made a shitty song, this shit paid my bills
No one looks in the mirror, because they know it disappoints
Seeing the naked truth, in the street, if life is different
Sometimes I thought about the end, but the end is not a way out
Sometimes I thought of you, sometimes relapse
Sometimes it was complicated to keep the faith
If you give space, in weakness, it punishes you
If you give space for impurity, it instigates you
If you only look at beauty, it chews you up
It crushes you, live life raw
I saw in my son's eyes the purest inspiration

I crossed São Paulo to see you naked
To have you whole
I needed a Band-Aid
It's easy when it's on the shelf
To see you naked
To have you whole
I needed a Band-Aid
It's easy when it's on the shelf