Obrigado não [English translation]

The more forbidden

The more makes sense the contravention

Make legal what is illegal

Disclaim the lack of education

Pregnancy versus abortion

Who wants to be born in the Dead Sea?

Who wants to die before be born?

Thanks, no

Thanks, no

Thanks, no

Thanks, no…

Put what is not useful away from the wheat1

Put Machiavelli away from your friend

Gay marriage besides an option

It’s a population control

The military dictatorship is gone

Scythe and hammer won’t work anymore

To serve the army only if the one of salvation

Thanks, no

Thanks, no

Thanks, no

Thanks, no…

Tchu ru ru…

Say ‘no’ to the drugs

— But be polite, say “No, thanks”

— Why whisky is okay and isn’t Cannabis2?

— Be careful with the cops

— Be careful with the thieves

Don’t be doomed on voting in con artists

Thanks, no

Thanks, no

Thanks, no

Thanks, no…

Tchu ru ru…

Thanks, no

Thanks, no

Thanks, no.

1. I’m not sure about the biblical history of this saying (“Separar o joio do trigo”), but in daily life I think its meaning is about separating the “wrong” from the “right” (or just two opposites), basically. There’s more about here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Tares2. Cannabis sativa is the scientific (binomial) name for marijuana.

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