É Tudo Pra Ontem Lyrics in English Emicida , Gilberto Gil

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Below, I translated the lyrics of the song É Tudo Pra Ontem by Emicida from Portuguese to English.

Maybe it's good to start from the end

After all, it's a whole year of nothing but Friday the 13th

'You could call me once in a while too

I've been like a caterpillar, sad, can't go out

Here's the mantra that brings us to the center

While I wash a bathroom, some dishes

Wanting to wash my soul

In the calm of the seed that sprouts

Because I need to watch my girls

The yellow leaf, like food

It ages, that's life, it happens

With people and documents

It's so sad to have to come

A bad thing to unite us

And not even that now, bro

Let's leave in time

That's it

It's all for yesterday

Living is leaving

Coming back and sharing

Leave, come back and share

I saw trees shedding their flowers for nobody

'I'm zen in my anti-jazz Coltrane moment

Kids have the sky within reach

Bro, is there still time to be more?

I know, damn, not even stars are the same

There's more, victory now is a crack of sunlight

In the end, Tetsuo was the one who was right

So all the sands in the hourglass go

And photos yellow, like teeth

Plants, us, the flame

The intermittent fever

Empty road, full inbox

And suddenly a warm square light says that

Living is leaving

Coming back and sharing

Leave, come back and share

Living is leaving

Coming back and sharing

Leave, come back and share

The creator left humanity here on Earth

And went somewhere else in the cosmos

One day he remembered us and said

I left my creatures down on Earth

I need to see what they've become'

But while he made that amazing move

Of coming here to see us

He thought

'What if they've become something worse than I can conceive?

It'd be best not to have a personal meeting with them

I'll do this

I'll turn into another creature

To see my creatures'

He turned into an anteater and walked across the field

At some point, a group of hunters

Armed with clubs and lassos

Moved in, rushed him, caught him

And took him to the camp with the obvious intent to eat him

Two twin kids, who were watching the scene

Stopped him from being taken to the fire

He then revealed himself to the boys

Who, before the adults found out

Covered his escape

On the side of a hill, the boys shouted

'Grandfather, grandfather, what did you think of us, of your creatures?'

And God replied

'More or less'

Living is leaving

Coming back and sharing

Leave, come back and share

Living is leaving

Coming back and sharing

Leave, come back and share

Living is leaving

Coming back and sharing

Leave, come back and share

Living is leaving

Coming back and sharing

Leave, come back and share

Living is leaving

Coming back and sharing

Living is leaving

Coming back and sharing

Living is leaving

Coming back and sharing

Leave, come back and share

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SONG MEANING

Imagine pressing pause on a hectic world, only to find that time keeps racing anyway. Emicida and Gilberto Gil invite us into that paradox with "É Tudo Pra Ontem," a musical conversation born in the long, suspended Fridays of the pandemic. Over gentle samba-soul and Gil’s calming refrain, Emicida raps about yellowing photos, unwashed dishes, and the ache of missing friends. Everyday images become reminders that everything ages, everything passes, and yet—right in the middle of uncertainty—life keeps sprouting like a stubborn seed pushing through concrete.

The heart of the song is the mantra “Viver é partir, voltar e repartir” (“To live is to leave, return, and share”). It suggests that real living is a cycle: we set out, we come home, and we divide what we gained with the community. Even the playful fable of God disguised as an anteater echoes this idea. When the creator finally checks on humanity, the verdict is only “more or less,” hinting that we still have work to do. The takeaway? Time is slipping through the hourglass, so reach out, forgive, create, and share your light today. Because according to Emicida, everything we dream of doing is already overdue—é tudo pra ontem.

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Emicida É Tudo Pra Ontem Lyrics