Genius English Translations
Baco Exu do Blues - 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 rhythm to form rich blacks
The first rhythm that made blacks free
Ring on the finger in each of the five
Wind in my face, i feel alive
From now on I consider everything blues
Samba is blues, rock is blues, jazz is blues
Funk is blues, soul is blues
I'm Exu do Blues
Everything that when it was black was of the devil
And then it turned white and it was accepted, I'll call it blues
That's it, understand
Jesus is blues
That's right

[Verse 2]
I love the sky with the warmest color
I have the color of my people, the color of my people
Young Basquiat, my world is different
I'm one of the few who doesn't hide what I feel
I cry whenever I remember us
Tears are just drops, the body is flood
Exaggerated, I'm in a hurry for the urgent
I don't accept your prison, my madness understands me
Baby, not every poet is sensitive
I'm the biggest enemy of the impossible
My passion is captivity, I captivate myself
Is the world slow or am I the hyperactive, oh?
[Bridge]
Listen to me, who you think is a thief and a whore
Go tell me it doesn't remind you of Christ
Listen to me, who you think is a thief and a whore
Go tell me it doesn't remind you of Christ
Go tell me it doesn't remind you of Christ

[Verse 3]
They want a n***a with a gun up
In a music video in the favela screaming "cocaine"
They want our skin to be the skin of crime
That Black Panther just be only a movie
I'm fucking Mississippi on fire
They're so fucking scared of the next Obama
Racist son of a bitch, nobody loves you here
Fuck Jerusalem, I'm looking for Wakanda, ah

[Bridge - Sample: Muddy Waters]
Everything
Everything's gonna be alright this morning

[Outro - Audio]
What's up, Diogo? Wow, man, I was here watching some videos that your mother showed me, I love it, okay? You with, with Camila Pitanga. You're much prettier than her, okay? Yeah, man...