Sepultura - Manifest lyrics

Friday, October second, 1992

Chaos has descended in "Carandiru"
The biggest penitentiary complex
In South America
Over a hundred inmates dead and
Hundreds injured on the massacre
The police arrived with helicopters
And over two hundred armed forces

They took the jailblock
Called "Pavilhão Nove"
And opened fire on the inmates
In a holocaust method of annihilation
The government of the city of São Paulo
Cannot control the brutality of it's police

Holocaust, body piles
Confrontation, mutilation

Discipline, ignorance conflagration, torture

Over eighty percent of the inmates
Were not sentenced yet
The bodies were filled with bullets
And bites from the police dogs
The police try to hide the massacre
Saying there were only eight deaths

The violence of Brazilian cops
Is very well known outside Brazil
This kind of extermination is a
Method that they use
To get rid of the overpopulation in the jails
The violence of the cops
Left the whole pavillion destroyed
After the rebellion

"Pavilhão Nove"