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| Background picture: June 1944, two boys overlooking the ruined remains of the village of St. Lo, France after the D-Day invasion of Normandy. (Corbis) |
One more war by our hands
The weapons were the words
Vanity, motivation
Wounds that bled the soul
The faith of many has been lost
One day brothers, enemies today
The love that once made us one have been murdered
Who will win?
A war between brothers
A war that is lost
Who will lose?
A chosen nation
A wounded nation
The alliances were broken
Words that brought division
Preached, sung, spoken
By many who claimed to be brothers
Wounds that bled the soul
The faith of many have been lost
At the Cross was given to us the example
Where lies the love that once made us one?
Besides the songs I write about talk a lot to me, I think that's nice when I'm "challenged" by someone on a song. This time who brought the main idea was my brother Matheus, and also him was the adviser on the picture. He's a person of great musical inspiration to me. He's the one who sought the seeds of good music in me though I've followed a different path of his, and we're always exchanging musical ideas.
It's curious seeing how this song's perspective have changed since its release, in 2008. Knowing the themes approached by the band, since their first album, back in 1990, we could imagine about quarrels created by religious divergences. Ten years after its original release, as noted by my brother, it's clear as a crystal that these quarrels and separations happen by political views.
Following what are being posted on Facebook's timeline, people admitting they have broken friendship, telling they started fights with their families and were really not caring for this. And what's the end of this? Will your political god take you anywhere? Is he the savior of the world? Is he the one who will take care of your emotions? Is he your friend/relative who heard you in your worst days? He's only another public manager in this country. And what about LOVE for people? And what about caring for PEOPLE? The one and only losers here, in the end, are you and me.
Mano Brown, a famous rapper in Brazil, who sings in Racionais MC's group, gave a speech during an election rally favoring Haddad, one of the two presidential candidates running on the second round polls in Brazil (the one on the right side of the picture), last Tuesday (October 23rd). Many may say that he humiliated the Worker's Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, also PT, in Portuguese). Just as my brother, I see the other side of the coin: he humiliated Brazil. At the end of his speech, he said "what kills us is blindness and fanaticism".
I see ruins of a war. The weapons were the words, vanity, motivation.
God bless the future of Brazil, and may the elected president not end with even more families and friends bonds.
If you understand/know Portuguese and is interested in Mano's Brown speech, you can click here to read and watch. I have no tools to translate a video and didn't find anything in English about. Sorry about this.
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3JnXLE2aYxWDPk1OoFHieV
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/track/93544314
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtEGOql1TsE
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