Blessed by dust

I know you and i feel you might want to know me

In my sweet and sour dreamland you will be

I will wrap you in my arms and you won’t see

Nothing but clear smiles from my devotees

 

Still, you will always laugh every time i bite

As your eyes someway will loose their light

Lay your trust upon me but don’t loose sight

That soon you will give in and up the fight

 

I’ll be you when you let me in

Take my bless but it ain’t tax-free

 

In your storm, i’ll give you all of my protection

You will bow and give a grip on your mind

Let me be your friend and give you all my attention

Cherish your soul then blow all your dreams away

 

Eternal sleep will end up your story

And i’ll rise and shine in my throne of glory

There’ll be only sparks from this world

And a little bit of ground to hide

 

I’ll be you when you let me in

Take my bless but it ain’t tax-free

 

*solo*

 

I’ll be you when you let me in

Take my bless

 

I’ll be you when you let me in

Take my bless,  but it ain’t tax-free

 


Tacili’s got some...

 

Late in the morning when she opens her eyes

Tacili’s got something to say and you’d better listen right

Some of the dreams that dance in her mind not quite the ones you’d have

Maker her feel like she ain’t blind

 

Something she’s been told “life ain’t what you dream”

Yet she’s not feeling cold 'cause she’ll make it by any mean

 

Little big woman’s got something to say

What kind of role she’s bound to play

And what is the price she’ll have to pay

She’s getting angry but reaching the light

Making the difference between wrong and right

Gathering the weapons to win the fight (wit’ leather…)

 

The day goes by but she still feels down

There’s way too much noise around

And in a way she only wants some peace

She looks at the world and says man’s gone insane

And driving us to an early grave

And there is so much that we can save

 

Something she’s been told “life ain’t what you dream”

Yet she’s not feeling cold ‘cause she’ll make it by any mean

 

Little big woman’s got something to say

What kind of role she’s bound to play

What is the price she’ll have to pay

She’s getting angry but reaching the light

Making the difference between wrong and right

Gathering the weapons to win the fight (wit’ leather…)

 

*solo*

 

Little big woman’s got something to say

What kind of role she’s bound to play

What is the price she’ll have to pay

She’s getting angry but reaching the light

Making the difference between wrong and right

Gathering the weapons to win the fight…


Mais uma vez

 

Todo o dia, meu rei, tua ausência me vem

Agridoce lembrança, teu sorriso também

Preto e branco ou cores, o quadro retém

Mas o toque e o cheiro, da memória é refém

 

Mil palavras não chegam para expor o seu dom

O outro lado da vida também dita o tom

 

Fica só mais um dia, talvez

Me acompanha só mais uma vez

Dança para mim e mais ninguém

Canta mais uma linha, meu bem

 

Quando as sombras me falam de dias sem sol

Vejo vultos moldados num silêncio sem dó

Mas a paz nos invade, quase como uma dor

Meu mundo deu voltas, mas com vocês nunca estou só

 

As palavras chegaram, e com elas o som

Este lado da rua talvez cante e ache bom

 

*solo*

 

Fica só mais um dia, talvez

Me acompanha só mais uma vez

Dança para mim e mais ninguém

Canta mais uma linha, meu bem


Roulette

 

Le mur cache une plage et les nuages en vain

Le blues reste fier mais j’ai peur de demain

Juste un appel, une impression d’ennui

La mer m’entraine au loin et je n’ai plus envie

 

Envie d’aller plus loin…

L’intervention divine

Me guide sur tous chemins

 

Ainsi va ta vie, ainsi vont tes désirs

Bouger sans vraiment pouvoir

Un elan, un regard

 

Beneath the god of an angry sun

The sweetest party has just begun yeah

Them shinny moons of east and west

Hide the clouds that shadow your rest

 

La danse est le secret de tes plus beaux rêves

La réussite est la a regarder les gens

Je joue trop souvent a marche ou bien creve

Une roulette russe avec des balles en argent

 

Je graisse le barillet, j’atteins l’eternité

La mort devient sublime

 

Ainsi va ta vie, ainsi vont tes désirs

Bouger sans vraiment pouvoir

Un elan, un regard

 

Beneath the god of an angry sun

The sweetest party has just begun yeah

Them shinny moons of east and west

Hide the clouds that shadow your rest

 

*solo*


Salvation armies

 

A sudden fall among the trees before my eyes

Twenty centuries of desolation and thoughtful lies

 

Their bloody armies will rip the moon like it ain’t true

And led by war-dogs will shut the rest of pride in you (*)

The season’s ending and it’s more than she can bear

Still brainless leaders drain the best of me and you

 

*solo*

 

But a change somehow will come

Their misleading songs won’t fool me no more

No faking smile abides hypocrisy

 

We’ll bind our future and then open the door

 

The smiling angels dance to their reflections

A noise from heaven sounds just like a strange reception

My little baby fell asleep with dream-lit eyes

While salvation armies sell diseases for affection

 

But a change somehow will come

Their misleading songs won’t fool me any more

No faking smile abides hypocrisy

 

We’ll bind our future and then open the door

 

*JFK*

 

But a change somehow will come

Their misleading songs won’t fool me any more

No faking smile abides hypocrisy

 

We’ll bind our future and then open the door

 


Teatral

 

Minha força é conveniente

Se machuca, se empobrece no ritmo da solidão

Se teu chão, dela depende

[uma alcova para sua aflição]

 

Se as palavras não lhe saem

Quem sabe [se] a voz não é o filtro

Que encobre a insatisfação de ser apenas

[mais] uma gota da tempestade

 

Você vai cantar também

Vai gritar até a rouquidão

Vai parecer não vir ninguém

Para aplaudir a sua atuação

 

O significado da angústia

Representa a dor no seu estado da arte

E o bem que essa fragilidade lhe faz

Mostra exatamente o tom de sua dor

 

Cada um tem seu papel

Mesmo quando a peça não tem sua platéia

I’ve been holding on for much too long

O problema está na direção e não no roteiro

 

Você vai cantar também

Vai gritar até a rouquidão

Vai parecer não vir ninguém

Para aplaudir a sua atuação

 

*solo*

 

Você vai cantar também

Vai gritar até a rouquidão

Vai parecer não vir ninguém

Para aplaudir a sua atuação


Let the river flow

 

Raise up all your plants, if it makes hopeful

Lay down your freeways, they could be useful

Cut down all those trees, they’ll bury anyway

Restlessly rape my land, strong bills you’ll have to pay

 

Won’t you all please, before it’s too late – let our river flow

Let the mighty river heal your soul

Won’t you all please show love and no hate – let our children grow

Let them little angels reach their goals

Won’t you all please decide your own fate – let us see tomorrow

Let us all believe in a better morrow

Let the river flow, let the river flow

Let the river flow, let the river flow

Let our river flow

 

Each time a whale goes wrong, then it’s the same with your soul

In abstinence you ain’t that strong, brother, find me through your soul

Swimming smells of toxic waste, speeding up for the living dead

Stuck right in the middle of paste, wish me well ‘cause you’re in dread

 

Won’t you all please, before it’s too late – let our river flow

Let the mighty river heal your soul

Won’t you all please show love and no hate – let our children grow

Let them little angels reach their goals

Won’t you all please decide your own fate – let us see tomorrow

Let us all believe in a better morrow

 

Let the river flow – why don’t you let it flow, let it flow

Let the river flow – let its magic waters bless your soul

Let the river flow – why don’t you stop and wonder why

Let the river flow – this piece of stone can’t turn to gold

 

Let the river flow, let the river flow

Let the river flow, let the river flow

 


No comments

 

Blame it on their dreams, (if) now they smell your schemes

You sing to ease their minds, meanwhile your back teeth grinds

Tried to muffle their soul, now they yearn control

Trading peace for dimes, how you repent your crimes

 

They fear you, you strive

We praise you, they scrape by

You trash them, cast aside

They haunt me, i know why

 

Spew your tainted truth, deceive their vengeful youth

Sugarcoated stereotypes to conceal beyond our genotype

Some will trust your story, believe you’ll lead them to their glory

Yet you hide behind your fences, behind your spin doctored lenses

 

They fear you, you strive

We praise you, they scrape by

You trash them, cast aside

They haunt me, i know why

 

*solo*

 

They fear you, you strive

We praise you, they scrape by

You trash them, cast aside

They haunt me, i know why

 

And you still got no comments

And i still got no comments

And we still got no comments...


Lady, maybe…

 

Lady, lady, lay your weapons down

Those tears might only stain your gown

It’s been so long since the last hopeful town

Since a freedom sun blessed your skins with shades of brown

 

Lady, maybe. Lady, maybe…

 

And if the world you paint still remains unsung

I will remind you that the new morning comes with the same old Sun

Just let me show you how your sweet lips silences my weary gun

I’ve never heard about everlasting nights, lend me your hand, take your time and we may have some fun

 

I hope you can see through all lies

Like you do when you sneak behind my eyes

You know you can dive in my mind

And i’ll always let you guide me if i’m blind

 

Lady, just lie down and sleep

Lady, just let go and weep

Don’t think peace will come that fast

Maybe redemption will come at last

 

*solo*


Under control

 

Johnny looks for protection - ain’t ever gonna look for action

Fighting inner revolutions - and walking with the institutions

Don’t you know he’s one lil’ gentle sheep - like those you count to fall asleep

A higher liar and a selfish loser - and freakin’ maker of heatless fires

 

His society looks rather positive - but the reality is much more negative

 

Factitious joys and suffering faces

All that remains is that he’s under control

 

Johnny’s enterprises are useless - they’re built to ease interior sickness

Still he’s not alone among the living - lot’s of us drift on the same feeling

 

*solo*

 

I hope i got the message through – we’d better start a revolution

If you don’t want our children – living up Orwell’s nightmare

 

His society looks rather positive - but the reality is much more negative

 

Artificial joys and suffering faces

Even our remains will end up under control

 

Factitious joys and suffering faces

All that remains

We must be under...

 


Back off, bitch!

 

Right outside my door, well it started raining

While a sad lookin’ lady kept complaining

My car didn’t start and i got a bath

This is how i went from jolly to wrath

 

Then i lit up a joint just calm down

And out of the blue, a cop, like a wet clown

Starts barking at me and getting cumbersome

I yell back, relax man! Chill out and go get some

 

As i tell him what i want

He complains about his witch

He deserves a little taunt

And i’m thinking “back off bitch”

 

Went to see a friend just to say hello

He was fooling around all the time he could blow

I saw a piece of cake that make people smile

And we chilled out that night under an even sky

 

And the same ol’ cop we met came back around

And he was still wearing that suit, you know, in shades of brown

But i thought all the way that he thought that we were just a bunch of lazy bums

When the truth is that we may look like freaks but

We just happen to march to the beat of our own drums…

So, back off bitch!


Kalos

 

Presque toutes nos décisions sont prises inconsciemment

Can't be careless. Got to, at least, pretend to be concerned

Ayez peu de expectatives/attentes et faites profil bas

Um conselho? Acorde de mau humor e anime-se durante o dia

Wait on life and it'll pass you by

Jamais s'en foutre. Il faut, au moins, faire semblant d'être intéressé

Decidimos quase tudo inconscientemente

Don’t plan a route without a defined destination

Tudo que necessita de esforço se desgasta e, eventualmente, quebra. Física básica.

Attends la vie elle te passera sous le nez

Apologize for the good things you’ve done

Jamais planifier un itinéraire sans une destinée définie

Profetas, pregadores, gurus e políticos e muito sal

Most of our decisions are made unconsciously

Espera pela vida e ela passará por ti

Ce n'est ni un marathon, ni un sprint. C'est juste un tour de montagne russe

We're animals, we're emotional animals but animals anyway

Peça desculpas pelas suas boas ações

Have little expectations and keep a low profile

Nous sommes des animaux. Des animaux émotionnels, certes, mais des animaux néanmoins

Prophets, priests, gurus and politicians and loads of salt

Não planeje uma rota sem um destino definido

Wake up mad and cheer up through the day

Prophètes, prêtres, gourous et politiciens et beaucoup de sel

All that requires effort wears out and eventually breaks. Physics 101

Tenha poucas expectativas e seja discreto

Tout ce qui demande de l'effort, use et, éventuellement, finit par casser

It's neither a marathon nor a sprint. Just a roller-coaster ride!

Somos amimais. Somos animais com emoção, mas somos animais mesmo assim

What’s life? Nothing but disappointments and funky smells

Não é nem uma maratona nem um sprint. É só um passeio de montanha russa!

Demandez pardon pour le bien que vous faites

No fim de tudo, é de amor que se trata

In the very end, it’s all about love…

Au bout du compte, c'est d'amour dont il s'agit


Luz

 

Nos dias de fome e dor

Olham-me olhos sem luz

Nessas ruas em cruz

 

Com medo e algum pudor

(se) escondem mais uma vez

Em lençóis de surdez

 

(mas não foi) sempre assim

Quero sonhar sem fim

(tenho) sonhos de luz em mim

 

(já) fui chamado doutor

Tinha um conforto fugaz

E a consciencia em paz

 

Num mundo irrequieto

Indiferença e sorte

Só não nascem com a morte

 

(mas não foi) sempre assim

Quero sonhar sem fim

(tenho) sonhos de luz em mim