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Artist: Legião Urbana
Canonical path: /legiao-urbana/soldados-help-ball-and-chain-pot-pourri
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Soldados / Help / Ball and Chain (Pot-Pourri)
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Soldados / Help / Ball and Chain (Pot-Pourri)
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When I was younger, so much younger than today
I never needed anybody's help in any way
But now, this days are gone and I'm not so self-assured
Now I find I've changed my mind and I opened up the doors
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down, down, down
Help me get my feet back on the ground, ground, ground
Won't you please help me? Help me?
Won't you please, please, help me? Help me, help me? Help me
Oh, yeah, help me, help me! Oh Yeah
("Ball and Chain", Janis Joplin)
You say that it's over, baby
You say that it's over, Yeah
You say that it's over, baby
You say that it's over, yeah
Come on, try
Won't you try?
Won't you try?
Won't you try?
S-sitting down by my window
Oh, looking at the rain
Sitting down by my window
Oh, looking at the rain
Come on, tell me why?
Why?
Don't you love her like a ball and chain?
Like a ball and chain
Like a ball and chain
Salve Janes, salve Jimmy, salve Jim Morrison
Salve Sid Vicious, salve Syd Barret
Salve Cazuza, salve John Monroe
Salve Silver Spoon, salve John Lennon
Salve todos os que estão vivos e que sobreviveram
Nossas meninas estão longe daqui
Não temos com quem chorar e nem pra onde ir
Se lembra quando era só brincadeira
Fingir ser soldado a tarde inteira?
Mas agora a coragem que temos no coração
Parece medo da morte mas não era então
Tenho medo de lhe dizer o que eu quero tanto
Tenho medo e eu sei porquê:
Estamos esperando
Quem é o inimigo?
Quem é você?
Nos defendemos tanto tanto sem saber
Porque lutar
Salve Bryan Jones, salve Gram Parson
Salve James D, salve Nelson Cavaquinho
Salve Eliseth Cardoso, salve Torquato Neto
Glauber Rocha, salve Billy Holiday
Salve rombor, salve Marlyn Monroe
("Salve Legião! Salve Legião! Salve Legião!")
Nossas meninas estão longe daqui
E de repente eu vi você cair
Não sei armar o que eu senti
Não sei dizer que vi você ali
Quem vai saber o que você sentiu?
Quem vai saber o que você pensou?
Quem vai dizer agora o que eu não fiz?
Como dizer pra você o que eu quis?
Somos soldados
Pedindo esmola
E a gente não queria lutar
A gente não queria lutar
A gente não queria lutar
A gente não queria lutar
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