Carnificina dreamed of blowing speakers out
With broken amplifiers and a crowd prepared to shout
But years leaked through the ceiling and the wallpaper at home
And life drove every one of them too far to still belong

Down the avenue at dusk four local kids appeared
Carnificina was the name the shopkeepers all feared
Manél Rapidinho laughed beneath his battered leather coat
Juiz de Fora's getting louder than this rotten town can hold

Vandane pictured crowded clubs with cigarettes and heat
And swore their first released record would reach the foreign streets
Dorotéia hit the drumkit like cathedral bells at war
And half the neighborhood killed the lights and locked their bedroom doors

Carnificina dreamed of blowing speakers out
With broken amplifiers and a crowd prepared to shout
But years leaked through the ceiling and the wallpaper at home
And life drove every one of them too far to still belong

Carnificina ah

They rehearsed beside the rail tracks in a warehouse full of dust
With cheap beer on the concrete and equipment built from rust
They dreamed of São Paulo nights and opening overseas
Following Atômica through smoke and filthy streets

But Dani Vandane took a job inside a downtown bank
Now survives through dead-eyed meetings and fluorescent office lamps
Dorotéia married suddenly some military man
Moved to Matias Barbosa and vanished from the band

Only Manél Rapidinho kept the volume rising high
Fifty years still melting cables every Friday night alive
Now he plays at Black Widow for the drunks around the town
Still tearing furious solos from guitars about to drown

There are kids beside the bar who hear him play and softly ask
Was that crazy guy already old when all of this first passed?
Then Manél plugs the cable in, smiling sideways at the wall
And burns another solo like a factory about to fall

Carnificina ah
Carnificina ah

Carnificina never crossed the ocean with a deal
But Manél Rapidinho became something loud and real
Because every dying city keeps somebody loud and strange
Still making noise against the decades trying to erase their name

Carnificina ah
Carnificina ah