Anti-herói

Anti-hero

Those who block the path to peaceful revolution
At the same time open the way to violent revolution

This can only be done once

I grew up locked in a room with books by Marx and
Pepetela
Fed with paragraphs by Nelson Mandela
This was the source of the hatred I no longer hide
This is the sound I inhaled in the voice of Zeca Afonso

No one separates me from this Guevara I have within me
And you can see in my face the anger of Lenin
I cry this blood that devours the spirit
And shocks the most sensitive, turning me into a monster like
Stalin

Valete a.k.a Cyclone Underground, nigga
The son of the bastard of your oppression, nigga
I have in my eyes the color of insurrection, nigga
I am like Malcolm-X with the microphone in hand

I unearth victims of capitalist genocide
And take more with me to rebellion
I am the first to march for this revolution
You are the first to bail out at the time of intervention

I came to resurrect Lumumba, Gandhi, and Arafat
And our combatants through this song
Father, I tattooed Your image on my chest
To breathe through it Your battle and Your courage

Today I carry in my arms Your soul and Your
message
The scum do not know that they will never gain an advantage
We wear the uniform of Xanana
And we bring third world drama to the White House

We parade with the same zeal as troops in Havana
And with the suburban resistance of that Cuban conviction
Take, this psychopathic rage of this son of Zapata
Vanguard activism is the sound record

I bring the determination with which Luther King shook
And the same solution all my people dreamed of
I am that new world that Bob Marley sang about
Sketch of that suffering all my people kept

I follow this path that hatred opened for me
And I will be one of the warriors who will applaud in the end
This is the sound of the revolution that will soon come
I am an anti-hero, who will never surrender
I am one of the children of this world that the Struggle inspired
On the same path as the message Cabral left
This is the voice of justice that will one day assert itself
I am the anti-hero that the people will acclaim

While I poison myself with this rancor
I am loading bullets into the magazine to shoot down these
oppressors
This is the mission of the Peronists, which I took on at the time
With the determination I inherited from my progenitor

No one stops the armed front that I now command
Combat the scum at dawn as Samora did
I bring in this oratory the story of the children who
saw the inglorious death of their parents
And who now yearn for revenge

In Palestine, Cambodia, Vietnam, Angola
In Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Bosnia
This is the cry of this world that cries and pleads
For the justice of men because they have seen that God does not
wake up

Victims of those who made the whole world their heritage
Of the murderous hypocrisy of the IMF and the UN
It is the anonymous people guinea pigs of economic liberalism
Who come out of the euphoric shackles to fight the demon

I am the one you called a fundamentalist
When I said I was a bellicose Trotskyist
I positioned myself against imperialist America
Here is your kamikaze terrorist

Tired of seeing you sitting, manipulated
By a television that leaves you impassive and
formatted
Asthmatic dissatisfied, closed and deceived
Suckers and backward, invalid and dazed

We are on the opposite side in this journey full of
anguished people
Traumatized by a past where they were trampled,
martyred
Stoned, excluded, extorted, extorted
Spit on

By a soulless brigade of parasites
Who devastated and destroyed lives
And now will pay with the discharge
Of this intifada created by the men you flagellated
And remained with determination to avenge those who did not
stay

I follow this path that hatred opened for me
And I will be one of the warriors who will applaud in the end
This is the sound of the revolution that will soon come
I am an anti-hero, who will never surrender
I am one of the children of this world that the struggle inspired
On the same path as the message Cabral left
This is the voice of justice that will one day assert itself
I am the anti-hero that the people will acclaim