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Edgar (Brasil)

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Well in every possible way the capital shoots you down

Because it's (the) capital that makes the world go round [1]

Waste is compulsive, waiting for the rain to fall and wash the street isn't hard

Since I've been alive, I've learned that things change

Experience and learned lessons don't dwell only in scars and wrinkles

I step on leeches, beneath the bridge... I slither

Avoiding the... "get rich or die trying" crowd

Because mental exercises understood the most novice among us

If poetry is in the air like the noble gases

That penetrate and infect open wounds

Plenty of rhymes and scarcely any poetry

Pichação is modern art [2]

It goes beyond fleeting lyrics

Graffiti as a means for the masses

Artists hidden in the subsoil of America

Alert and attentive to war technology and artificial intelligence

I see everything about the world's future through the window of the absurd

Careful with your Internet history

Screenshots don't go away, screenshots don't go away [3]

Browsing anonymous pages

Clearing my search history

The lightness of the tectonic plates

Destroying all the dormitory-cities

The sound of vinyl playing in the heart of Brazil

And the birds echoing the rushing current of the Amazon rivers

Magnetic resonance truly does happen naturally

Believe in them or not, our rarities, unmistakable

The women who sell acarajé aren't invisible [4]

Like the arguments we have in narrow relationships, through our inbox

Printed conversations transform into new documents

Abbreviated, we call them docs

New fleets of autonomous robots that need only a synonym

To start singing an electronic chorus that chants endlessly that obsolescence don't stop, don't stop [5]

Careful with... 'cause screenshots don't... [6]

Screenshots don't vanish, screenshots don't vanish

Careful with your Internet history, screenshots are never gone for good

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rainbowspectr

submitted on 15 Iun 2021 - 22:59

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The footnote system decided to be hot garbage when I was putting this together, so here are those notes:
1: 'O capital' can mean either 'capital city' or 'money', so I put 'the' in parentheses to show this ambiguity.

2. Pichação is a type of graffiti unique to Brazil. Its general characteristics are a sharp-angled style and being tagged on empty buildings and walls, often in high up, hard-to-reach spots. Like graffiti often is in the United States, pichação is widely considered vandalism or a nuisance in Brazil. On the flip side, some, like the song's author, consider it an art form and a way for people living in poverty to make themselves heard.

3. I didn't find a fully satisfactory way to translate this sentence, so I'll explain more here. "Some" is from "sumir", to vanish, unable to be found again. So saying "print não some" means that even though you may think that a screenshot (or anything else online) is completely gone once you delete it, it's still around in some place or another and can be brought back.

4. Acarajé is an Afro-Brazilian food sold by street vendors, mostly Black women, and mostly in the state of Bahia. It's made from ground, fried black-eyed peas and served kind of like a sandwich, cut in half and stuffed with things like shrimp, peppers, cashews, etc. Acarajé is also an important ritual food in the Afro-Brazilian religion of candomblé, given as an offering to spirits. I would recommend looking up more on your own-- there's a lot to know about it!

5. Obsolescence here is presumably referring to 'planned obsolescence', in which products are made purposefully not to last, so that consumers will have to buy another with a few years.

6. More about the possible meaning of these lyrics! In live performances of this song, Edgar often accompanies it with a few sentences along the lines of "If someone is being racist or transphobic to you online, take a screenprint, document it, don't let them get away with it". In this sense he seems to be taking an uncharacteristically positive spin on social media by advising listeners who may be victims of bigotry to protect each other or fight back against harassment using the technology at their disposal.

Thanks for bearing with me; I know I ramble a lot. Any corrections or suggestions are appreciated! Thanks for reading!