Adamastor (feat. Joana Rosa)

I saw the forest being burned with all the spite
I saw devastated families with nothing but pain
And in the eyes of disaster, I saw the Adamastor, the Adamastor

Why?
Asks all the time who cries for the inheritance that was not remembered before
And now hoping to see their life rise again
Consumed by the flames, calling for someone to give shelter
Houses in chilling cases, in blazing embers for insane causes
I embrace the protesters, hunting down these mutants
Leaving white handkerchiefs for our rulers

Now there are so many businessmen with arson courses
At no cost but with a price list
Millionaire contests making us fools
Speaking our language with spit in the dictionary

An armed fire for a disarmed people
Who fought for the legacy left by Dom Dinis
So now come the polished little shoe
To step on our legacy in the infernal ground

I don't know why they want to take our voice away
What do they want from us

Now I see teams of reporters editing
Sentimental montages that these disasters bring us with false approaches
By those who create our laws in messages
Emptier than lays packages
I pay tribute to the courage of this people
Who used their own tears just to put out the fire
Seeing lives destroyed in this game
Where you always lose to start over

Proclaimed to eat and be quiet
In a room where gala suits speak of facts that silence
But only silence those who have blinders or valuable agreements
Pockets fuller than intact bags of pollen
We will rise from the ashes like a phoenix
Listen to what I said, I have full faith in it
Because this fame of a conquering country
Once defeated an Adamastor

From the sword of Afonso Henriques, to the hoe of the common man
Marching against these rich people who destroy this little corner
And you know what's sadder is to see that along the way
More than tales were left than the tales of green pine

But always fighters to the smell that smoke emanates
We are the pride of this Lusitanian race
And those who call us cowards in sadness are mistaken
I confront anyone who harms our mother nature

I saw the forest being burned with all the spite
I saw devastated families with nothing but pain
And in the eyes of disaster, I saw the Adamastor, the Adamastor