[Produced by KL Jay & Mano Brown]
[Intro: Mano Brown]
What is it and what is it? Clear and salty
Fits in an eye and weighs a ton
Tastes like the sea, it can be discreet
Tenant of pain, it's favorite adress
In the silence, she comes, hostage to revenge
Sister of despair, rival of hope
Can be caused by maggots and mundanes
And the thorn of the cruel flower you love
Lover of drama, comes to my bed willingly
And without my permission, made me suffer
And I, who thought I was strong, and I, who felt like the man
Shall bе a weakling when others of thеm come
If "Shit's crazy and the process is slow"
For now, let me just walk against the wind
What's the point of being tough and my heart being vulnerable?
Not the wind, no, it is gentle, but it is cold and relentless (For sure)
Blurred the poet's sad lyrics (Yeah)
Dripped down the prophet's brown face
Maggot, get out the way, a man's tear is about to fall
This is your trouble for eternity
They say "Men don't cry", okay, sure...
Don't go by what others say, brother, Jesus wept
[Verse 1: Mano Brown]
Damn, man, look, I'll tell you
I'm getting high, what a good world to end
What to do when the fortress get shaken
And almost everything around you, the best things, get corrupted?
[Brown's Conscience/Right Side]
— Hey, wait a minute, slow down, thug!
Where is Capão's immortal spirit?
Wash your face in the holy waters of the sink
"Nothing like one day after another day"
[Mano Brown]
- What? Who-
[Brown's Conscience/Right Side]
— It's me, your right side
If you're shook, why did you come? Nigga, it's like that
[Mano Brown]
I sleep poorly, almost the entire night
I wake up tense, dizzy and with dark circles under my eyes
In my mind: A feeling of hurt and resentment
Some shit shook me up the night before:
(on the phone)Cah-um! Hello?
[Unidentified/Brown's Friend]
Hello. sleeping huh, blood?
A lot of shit happening and 'you there...
[Mano Brown]
-What time is it?
[Unidentified/Brown's Friend]
Twenty past twelve, look
This is whats happenning, look
I'm not blowing it out of proportion, no, look
It's hot stuff (huh!)
Yesterday I was there, in a Honda CB, hanging out
With a stand up dude, you have to meet him
Maybe you can even call him, who knows
He even used to rap in the recent past
[Mano Brown]
- Uhuh...
[Unidentified/Brown's Friend]
Look what happenned, you won't believe it
When it has to be, it happens, you know? look...
I stopped to smoke some
With some guys there, who deal in the buildings
A guy who arrived afterwards, asked me if he could have some
Some preppy, huh, young and shit
Smoke comes, smoke goes, he got high as f***
Opened up like a flower, he went crazy
It was me, two more guys and a girl
In a silver Fiat Tempra, really neat, windows tinted, listening to "Guina"
Shit, that preppy blurted out, look, talked a lot of shit about you
[Mano Brown]
- Like what?
[Unidentified/Brown's Friend]
"This Brown dude is full of himself (ooh)
Just let him get distracted, (and) come sing in the hood
Let's see if he's all that when he sees the "Square Ones"
Fuck the hood, he just thinks about himself
Sitting on a lot of money and y'all here, angry inside
And his face, man, to each his own hustle
Everything for the green, some kill, some die
I, myself, if I score some money sometime soon
I'll stand out on the other side, quickly
I'm going to buy a rich guy's house, then I'll rent it
They will call me 'sir', not by crime nickname
But, for him (Brown), only the south zone is the shit
They say he talks shit about us, we're all in to settle it
Whatever he wants, come the f*** on
Because i don't kiss up for no one."
And i just registered it, y'know? I wasn't from there
Everyone just listened, no one said anything
[Mano Brown]
Whoever has a mouth says what they want to make a name
To gain attention from women and other men
I love my race, I fight for my color
Whatever I do, it's for us, for love
They don't understand what I am, they don't understand what I do
Don't understand the clown's pain and tears
This rotten world, by a close call
Turns a brother of mine into a disgraceful maggot
And my mother says:
"Paulo, wake up, think about the future, this is all an illusion
Black people themselves don't care about that, no
Look at how much I suffered, what I am, what I was
Envy can kill a man, there are a lot of bad people out there"
Come on, ma, don't talk like that, I won't even sleep
My love for you no longer fits in Saturn
Money is good, I want it, yes, if that's the question
But Ms. Ana made me a man, not a whore
Hey, you, whoever you are: i wasn't born for no seed
So no use trying to bury me
Invisible enemy, colorless Judas
I was born persecuted, you feel me?
Just for thirty coins, the brother got corrupted
Throw the first stone whoever has a trace of me
Where is my smile? Where is it? Yeah, who stole it?
Humanity is evil and even Jesus wept
[Chorus: Mano Brown]
Tears
Tears, Jesus wept
[Verse 2: Bro Brown]
Red and blue, hotel
Flashes it's lights, in the darkness of the sky
Rain falls outside and increases the pace
Alone, I am now my intimate enemy
Bad memories come, good thoughts go
Help me, alone I think shit like hell
People I believed in, liked and admired
Who fought for justice and peace, got shot:
Malcolm X, Gandhi, Lennon, Marvin Gaye
Che Guevara, 2Pac, Bob Marley
And the christian, Martin Luther King
I remembered a homie of mine saying this:
"Don't throw pearls before swine, brother
Throw'em wash, they prefer it that way
You have to use this fake shit."
Christ who died for millions
But walked only with twelve and one of them failed him
The Hood: empty and unethical bodies
Filling the sacks heading for the electric chair
I know and you do too, what frustration is
Villain making machine
I think about a hundred problems, I'm going crazy
And this bum says this, when he sees me:
"Famous as fuck with no money? shit, homie!
Forget keeping it real, joe, life is short
So many models out there, showing off
Make them blow, and tell them to take a hike
Tearing up the dawns with a 1100 motorcycle
If i was you homie, huh, no one would get me
These average joes are awful, huh, there's that
You having money or not, they envy you all the same
If they cross you, you should empty on them, suddenly
Like, with a .40, if you want it, just say so."
[Mano Brown]
If just thinking about killing, you have already killed
I prefer to listen to the preacher:
"My son, do not envy the violent man
And don't follow any of his paths"
Tears wet a winner's medal
Cry now, laugh later, hey man, Jesus wept
Tears