Um Bom Rapaz

If I were a good guy and listened to my folks
I'd have a steady job and maybe some cash in the bank
But I wonder what my life would be like
I learned from every corner, every tape, every struggle a wisdom
At 15 I went off the rails, at 16 I got into trouble, 17 I was spinning
So many situations I went through
At the gas station, a bunch of battles, bobnelson, peteleco

That skinny guy always hanging around the bars
The street that once enchanted me still does
The beings of the night often move me
The guys sing with me while I rhyme, sharing wine
I see Christ in the eyes of even a beggar prince, like me
On the street where life is lived, a toast to the night, a toast to life

Anguish turns to ashes that burn our pains away
I know that the street many times
Is less harsh than the flowers...
A toast:
To the forgotten geniuses, to the poets
Driven mad, and to civilization
That one day
One day will change

They say it's a junkie hangout, I don't lose sleep
I hear: "crazy, bum"
That's exactly it and then some...
Normalcy is something I don't appreciate
Especially in this sick world
I have faith that it was God who wrote in crooked lines
In the Bible my mom read, those values I absorbed
And nowadays, in the middle of this struggle

I can tell a son of a bitch from family
Fallen angel, a broken heart, a smile on my face
Rap is the soundtrack on this steep road I'm following
Alongside God and my friends
If I fall 7 times, I get up 8, I revive
I ran, but I never managed to escape
As long as God allows, genezio will keep going

It's not fate, it's a personal choice
The wind blows but doesn't knock me down because I have an ideal
He's not a good guy
Who is he, what does he do?
He's not a good guy
Where's he from, where's he going?
A suburban? Latino-American?
An angel? Leper? Fool? Hustler? Gypsy?

Who am I to you?
I can't answer that
At the crossroads a "laroyê"
In the function, save!
For some education, here for us it's about doing, what can we do?
Values I'll never forget
I rise for reasons, without reasons I fall
I slide, but I never lose myself in the maze...