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Steinar Albrigtsen - Beaches of Rio lyrics

Artist: Steinar Albrigtsen

album: Now & Then - The Best Of


He's a catholic priest in Rio
In the shanty town heat
Taking care of young children
Thrown out like stray cats on the street
Where the shopkeepers pay the police to kill kids by the store
Just one more criminal who won't bother the rich anymore
And he walks through the slums
And the garbage dumbs each day at five
Hoping the twins he fed last night might still be alive
Last week a child shot to pieces was left at his door
Just one more criminal who won't bother the rich anymore
On the beaches of Rio where the hotels lights shine
You can hear bossanova and drink Portuguese wine
On the beaches of Rio money perfumes the air
Poverty is a nuisance, you pretend it's not there
There's a 10 year old prostitute
Kissing a smiling old man
Who could be her grandfather
Except he owns banks in Japan
Her brother was murdered
For stealing some fruit from a store
Just one more criminal
Who won't bother the rich anymore
On the beaches...
The catholic priest
Sees a gang of small boys selling drugs,
Working as runners for big time Colombian thugs
If they get too smart they wash up like dead fish on the shore
Just one more criminal who won't bother the rich anymore

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