Bluesman [English translation]

[Intro - Sample: Muddy Waters]

Oh, yeah (whoo)

Ooh, yeah

Everything, everything, everything's gonna be alright this morning

Oh, yeah

Everything’s gonna be alright this morning (whoo)

[Verse 1]

I'm the first genre to make black people rich

The first genre to make black people free

A ring on each finger

I feel alive when the wind hits my face

From now on, everything for me is blues

Samba is Blues, rock is Blues, jazz is Blues

Funk is Blues, soul is Blues

I'm the Blues' Exu¹

Everything that was devilish when it was black

And became accepted when it turned white I'll call Blues

That's it, understand it

Jesus is Blues

Just said it

[Verse 2]

I love the sky when it has the warmest color

I got my people's color, the color of my felows

Young Basquiat, my world is different

I'm one of the few who doesn't hide what feels

I always cry when I remember of us

Tears are only drops, body is a flood

Exaggerated, I'm in a urgent hurry

I don't accept your prison, my freakness understands me

Baby, not all poets are sensitive

I'm the greatest enemy of the impossible

My passion is captivity, I captivate myself

Is the world slow or am I hyperactive, oh?

[Bridge]

Listen me, who you think is a thief and a whore

Say me this doesn't remind you from Christ

Listen me, who you think is a thief and a whore

Say me this doesn't remind you from Christ

Say me this doesn't remind you from Christ

[Verse 3]

They want a black guy with a gun pointing up

On a clip at a favela shouting "cocaine"

They want our skin to be the crime skin

They want Black Panther to be only a film

I'm the fucking Mississippi burning down

They're fucking scared of a next Obama

You motherfucking racist, nobody loves you here

Fuck Jerusalem, I'm searching for Wakanda, oh

[Bridge - Sample: Muddy Waters]

Everything

Everything's gonna be alright this morning

[Exit - Audio]

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• Artist:Baco Exu do Blues
• Album:Bluesman (2018)