Sepultura

Released: March 20, 2001

Featuring: Jello Biafra

Songwriter: Jello Biafra Igor Cavalera Derrick Green Andreas Kisser

Producer: Steve Evetts

So you want a nation?
Your very own nation
Push the machine aside
Many have tried
We have always been there
We will always be there
Making sure you need us
And feed us

We got the money
We got the power
We got the guns
We got TV

You are our livestock
We make you love it
Slave and dream for escape
But scared to death of change

Want to hear my speech?
Want to share my thoughts?
Protest! Protest!

Come now
Is it worth the hassle?
Worth all your precious time?
You'll grow old, you'll give up

We farm you, we milk you
Your energy's for us to drain
Office, sweatshop, plantation, the same

I know we can survive our choice
I know we can be what we want to be
I know we can survive
I know we will survive

The only game we know
We must have more and more
Make more, take more
Control more

You are our marketplace
Not a community
No sub-commandante ski-mask
Will lead you to no promised land

Want to hear my speech?
Want to share my thoughts?
Protest! protest!

Sepultura is a Brazilian heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte. Formed in 1984 by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, the band was a major force in the death metal, thrash metal and groove metal genres during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with their later experiments drawing influence from alternative metal, world music, nu metal, hardcore punk and industrial metal.

The first Sepultura show was on December 4th, 1984. The band played two songs that never were re-recorded or released.

The band name comes from a Portuguese translation of Motörhead’s song “Dancing on Your Grave” which is “Dançando na sua Sepultura”. Sepultura means “grave” (sepulchre) in Portuguese (and in some other Latin-based languages). Originally, they wanted to call the band Tropa de Choque (Shock Troops), but found that the name had been used before.

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