Pavão Pavãozinho

What I saw at Central do Brasil
At Pavão Pavãozinho, in Padre Miguel
I haven't seen anywhere else but here
Outside with so much misery
I'm going there to scare away the ghost of chaos
And send it somewhere else
To Apoliom's house
What I saw in the rugged countryside of Minas Gerais
What I saw in the hinterland
On the banks of the Amazon
It went too far, it went too far

Well, it's time for the Senate to wake up
It's time for these people to shake things up
It's time for kindness to prevail, oh
Well, it's time to believe more in the courts
To exorcise the mold from the prisons
To see our elderly singing, oh

What I saw at Central do Brasil
At Pavão Pavãozinho, in Padre Miguel
I haven't seen anywhere else but here
Outside with so much misery
I'm going there to scare away the ghost of chaos
And send it somewhere else
To Apoliom's house
What I saw in the rugged countryside of Minas Gerais
What I saw in the hinterland
On the banks of the Amazon
It went too far, it went too far

Well, it's time for the Senate to wake up
It's time for these people to shake things up
It's time for kindness to prevail, oh
Well, it's time to believe more in the courts
To exorcise the mold from the prisons
To see our elderly singing, oh

Incoherence, recklessness, and slander
Those who wanted to preach lost their innocence
On the platform of injustice
Where the poor go hungry
Where the orphan, the widow
And the elderly have no name
Forgotten promises from other carnivals
They remembered the Church
Now, they no longer remember
They followed the beat of this money
They lost their vision, and now they have nothing left

Well, it's time for the Senate to wake up
It's time for these people to shake things up
It's time for kindness to prevail, oh
Well, it's time to believe more in the courts
To exorcise the mold from the prisons
To see our elderly singing, oh

(Oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh)
Sing, Brazil!
(Oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh)
Sing, Brazil!
(Oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh)
Sing, Brazil!
(Oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh, oh-eh)
Wake up, Brazil!