Heroína

There was a time when I looked at myself in the mirror
and said like this, one two three

Today you come to tell me that you feel good
that you are no longer faithful to heroin.
But you look thin and confused, uh
asking for money on every corner.

I don't intend to give you a long sermon
no, no, no, no, no, what would it be worth to me if it depends on you,
listen mulatto react and seek God,
yes, yes, yes, to see if this world finally understands.

Chorus:
auh listen, it's a bembe
I come as an explosion so you can understand
auh listen, it's a bembe
it's a message of love, don't let it fall (twice)

Explosion, to all those who shoot a cannon
let them not be mistaken, that is not the mission
if your boss gives you a weapon to be a hitman
that's not a friend, that's a dictator

Last night you went out to shoot
but now tell me how you're going to escape
if they can reach your same point
and if you shoot a *POW* that you won't be able to dodge
so stop the fire stop the fire stop the fire now
because all the neighborhoods need peace, say

Stop the fire, stop the fire, stop the fire
we don't want any deaths from crack sales
and remember well what your mother suffered
so that nothing was missing, she gave you everything
and remember well how she raised you
she didn't teach you to kill people

Chorus (four times)

Tell me the people of the local government
if they are going to make their own decisions
without any other nation telling us what to do
without any of the corrupt ones coming to assassinate us
if we keep depending on aid
in the lower class we stay without a doubt
so all my people let it be shown
that we are humble but well trained
and if you remember the Vietnam War
that was just a business as they always happen
for the sale of weapons that come and go
and all the veterans are destroyed
neither I nor my people can allow
that nuclear bombs are stored in my country
turning my nation into a battlefield
so they can exploit us and cross the line

Chorus (four times)

Explosion, to the women who don't want to understand
explosion, what's inside has to be born
if your mother endured to then give birth then
why can't you do it, how much is it? two hundred,
three hundred or more how much is your child worth what price will you pay?
for the people who for the business what they do is
destroy what God sent so it could live,
and I don't understand why they put value
on social status and also color,
hey racist more powerful is love
than your stupid insistence on having control,
anyway in the future you won't be able to avoid
that your daughter will marry a black man
and I am not of high social status
but your son wants to buy my cassette

(chorus 4x)