Conheço O Meu Lugar [English translation]

What can the ordinary man do

On this present moment but bleed?

(and) Try to begin

The impressive life

Fully free and triumphant?

What can I do

With my youth

When the maximun health nowadays

is to pretend to use the voice?

What can I do

(I am) A simple singer of basement´s things?

God made the street dogs to bite you

(you) Who under the moonlight

Treat them like people - of course! - by kicking them

Once upon a time there were a man and his time

Bloody boots on Lorca ´s clothes (1)

I look straight to present´s face and I know

That I will hear the same dirty history

There´s no reason to celebrate: Come on!

I don´t know how to laugh by no reason

Stay you with a positive mind

What I want is active voice (that´s what is good)

Because I am a person

That is my boat: I board it

I am person

The word "person" doesn´t sound good nowadays

I don´t care!

No! You didn´t stop me from being happy!

You´ve never ever closed the door at my nose

Nobody is people

Northeast is a ficcion! There´s never been a Northeast!

No! I don´t come from the place of the forgottens!

I´m not from the nation of the condemneds!

I´m not from the coutryside of the offendeds!

You know well. I know my place!

• Artist:Belchior
• Album:Era Uma Vez Um Homem e Seu Tempo (1979)