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    Non é ficción → English translation

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Non é ficción

Eu quero ver como os tempos van cambiando,
como os meus pais seguen traballando,
para logo ver como outros van chupando,
manter os porcos para quedarnos sen zapatos.
Baixar o lombo para que coman só uns cantos
é un oficio que todos vamos herdando.
 
Non é ficción o que vos estou contando,
nacín fai pouco e xa me estaban controlando,
e ti persistes que a loita rematou
e nós pensando que aínda non...
 
Dende pequenos máis manipulados
con leis de merda e cos puños ben atados,
xa nin falemos das mentiras que contades,
a policía xa non ten autoridade.
 
Non é ficción o que vos estou contando,
nacín fai pouco e xa me estaban controlando,
e ti persistes que a loita rematou
e nós pensando que aínda non...
 
E nós con verbas defendemos ideais
e vós polos cartos estades a matar.
Capitalismo e neglixencia
son as chamadas novas formas de violencia.
 
Non é ficción o que vos estou contando,
nacín fai pouco e xa me estaban controlando,
e ti persistes que a loita rematou
e nos pensando que aínda non comezou.
 
Translation

It's Not Fiction

I want to be aware of1 how times keep on changing,
How my parents keep on working,
To later understand2 how others prey on this,
How we feed the porkers, while we walk barefoot.
We bend our necks so that only some can eat:
That’s the trade we all still inherit.
 
It’s not fiction, these things I’m telling you.
Barely born, I was already put under control,
And you persist the battle has finished.
And we think that not yet...
 
More and more manipulated since childhood
with shitty laws, we have our hands tied.
No use to even mention the lies you tell us;
the police no longer has authority.
 
It’s not fiction, these things I’m telling you.
Barely born, I was already put under control,
And you persist the battle has finished.
And we think that not yet...
 
With our words we defend our ideals,
and you’re ready to kill for money.
Capitalism and negligence are,
so to speak, the new forms of violence.
 
It’s not fiction, these things I’m telling you.
Barely born, I was already put under control,
And you persist the battle has finished.
And we think that it has not started yet.
 
  • 1. The literal translation of "to see" would seem a bit strange to me in this context.
  • 2. as above
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