Sepultura - Manifest lyrics

Friday, October 2nd, 1992

Chaos has descended in Carandiru
The biggest penitentiry 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 Sao Paulo
Cannot control the brutality of its 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 Brasilian cops
Is very well known outside of Brasil
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