Manifest Lyrics


Friday, October 2nd, 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 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 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 pavilion destroyed after the rebellion

"Pavilhão Nove"