Eu Sou de Lá [English translation]

I come from a place

Where Brazil's soul is green and the river is as big as a sea

I came from a place

Pará1, the land I love the most

I come from a place

Where women named Maria came from the sky

And where women named Nazareth are impregnated by faith

That will pass on to each children that born

I come from a place

If you allow me to, in a minute I'll tell you who I am

I was born to the tribes, indigenous, black, light and darkness

Marajoaras2, copper-colored, that's how I am

I come from a place

Where little God is in a hurry to arrive

It was born two months earlier, stay there

Being wet from rain and dirting himself with açaí3

I come from a place

A place where October happens but never ends

Where the life I lived is worth a single day

A Sunday so holy I can't describe it

It should a mystery for now and forevermore

It can't be explained

It's more than just seeing this sea of people

Celebrating on the streets of Belém4

It's a fact that the word can't reach

It's not needed to ask him what he is

To the people of Pará1, the cult is

Something that I can't explain

Forget about it...

You need to come

To see with your soul what you can't see with your eyes

You need to have

Simplicity so you'll cry without understanding it

Maybe then

You'll see that this rope ties us all

Without differing us from one another, together in the same knot

The knot was made by the hands of the mother of God

I know it's weird

To put the Holy and the sinner ones in the same heaven

The pure and the profane, pain and laughter, freed and culprit

Welcome to the cult

It should a mystery for now and forevermore

It can't be explained

It's more than just seeing this sea of people

Celebrating on the streets of Belém4

It's a fact that the word can't reach

It's not needed to ask him what he is

To the people of ParáPará1, the cult is

Something that I can't explain

Forget about it...

1. a. b. c. A Brazilian state2. a pre-Columbian era society that flourished on Marajó island at the mouth of the Amazon River3. a fruit common in Brazil4. a. b. The capital city of the Brazilian state of Pará

• Artist:Fafá de Belém
• Album:Amor e Fé