Cidadão

Citizen

Do you see that building, sir?
I helped to build it
It was a time of distress
It was four rides
Two to go, two to come back

Today, after it's finished
I look up and get dizzy
But a citizen comes to me
And suspiciously says
Are you standing there amazed
Or are you trying to steal?

My Sunday is lost
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, sir?
I also worked there
There I almost broke myself
I made the mortar, put cement
Helped to plaster

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 stronger
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, sir?
Where the priest says amen
I put the bell and the clapper
I filled my hand with calluses
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 created the earth
Filled the river, made the mountain
I didn't let anything be lacking

Today man has created wings
And in most houses
I also can't enter
I created the earth
Filled the river, made the mountain
I didn't let anything be lacking
Today man has created wings
And in most houses
I also can't enter