Casa de Papelão [English translation]

Eyes to eyes without giving a lecture

Nothing in the mouth and in the heart

His friends are a pipe and a dog

Cardboard house

Eyes to eyes, pay attention

Check the occupation

You're the only one who stayed, you're all that's left

Crazy howl, blood in tears

To please oppression 1

No sickle or knife

Butchered, the soul bitters, smashes cans 2

Bursts a lung

Every rock ends, every buzz passes

Every death arrives and laces

They're over a million

Buildings will rise

And the glamour will harvest

Bodies among the crowd

A lot of doors in my mind

And in each door a dike

That retracts itself and sometimes moves itself

And how many secrets weren't stored in this shack?

Floating in the city's polluted sky, drinking all its lies

Lacking hope, tap without water

Coins? Religion entices 3

Let's sing to our dead

Let's cry to those who stay

Pray for better days

And get humiliated for a new shelter

No sickle or knife

Butchered, the soul bitters, smashes cans

Bursts a lung

Every rock ends, every buzz passes

Every death arrives and laces

They're over a million

Buildings will rise

And the glamour will harvest

Bodies among the crowd

1. This could mean that oppression is exercised upon the subject, and it is meant in an ironic way, something like "Oh great, oppression"2. This could allude to a method of smoking crack or can refer to the common act of smashing soda cans; it is a common occupation for unemployed people in Brazil. They go around collecting used cans, smash them and sell them to recyclers. Due to the context of the song, it is probably related to crack usage3. This sentence has a poetic touch to it and it is a bit difficult to convene the meaning in english

• Artist:Criolo
• Album:Convoque Seu Buda (2014)