Cidadão

Citizen

Do you see that building, young man?
I helped to build it
It was a time of distress
There were four bus rides
Two to go, two to come back
Today, after it's finished
I look up and feel dizzy
But a citizen approaches me
And suspiciously asks, are you standing there in admiration
Or are you trying to steal?
My Sunday is ruined
I go home saddened
I feel like drinking
And to increase my boredom
I can't even look at the building
That I helped to build

Do you see that school, young man?
I also worked there
There I almost broke myself
I laid the bricks, mixed cement
Helped with the plastering
My innocent daughter
Comes to me all happy
Dad, I'm going to enroll
But a citizen tells me
A child standing on the ground
Can't study here
This pain hurt even more
Why did I leave the north?
I started to tell myself
There, the drought punished, but the little I planted
I had the right to eat

Do you see that church, young man?
Where the priest says amen
I put up the bell and the clapper
My hands calloused
I worked there too
There it was worth it
There are fairs, there are novenas
And the priest lets me in
It was there that Christ told me
Young man, stop being foolish
Don't be frightened

I was the one who created the land
Filled the river, made the mountains
I didn't let anything be lacking
Today, man has grown wings
And in most houses
I also can't enter

I was the one who created the land
Filled the river, made the mountains
I didn't let anything be lacking
Today, man has grown wings
And in most houses
I also can't enter