São Paulo, 2015 Lyrics in English Jão

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Verse 1

Another sleepless night in the best suite

Everything's already gone wrong, my body admits it

Dreaming way up high, the floor's the limit

I lost myself again

Diamonds on my chest, satin on my skin

In the cold dawn I'm a fever

Searching inside me 'cause nobody can

Just stay here

From the fields to the asphalt, a jacket, chin up

I rip through the night, heart in hand

Running from myself and all my past

Paying me, I fake it, kill loves in vain

Anybody's bed to fill me up

São Paulo's a drug, it'll use you

Thousands of people suffering in a bathroom

You'll go up, you'll go down

Every night I go out to escape myself

And every night I always find myself like this

My God, you swore you'd take care of me

Verse 2

São Paulo's a world, so sad, so beautiful

It gave me everything I have, took what I had

I run from myself, I find myself at the exit

But I'll get used to it

Another night I surrender, top of a skyscraper

I'm the owner of the world, dreams for rent

And when I face myself, I sigh in a low voice

"I don't feel bad, I just don't feel anything"

From the fields to the asphalt, a jacket, chin up

I rip through the night, heart in hand

Running from myself and all my past

Paying me, I fake it, kill loves in vain

Anybody's bed to fill me up

São Paulo's a drug, it'll use you

Thousands of people suffering in a bathroom

You'll go up, you'll go down

Every night I go out to escape myself

And every night I always find myself like this

My God, you swore you'd take care of me

Every light in this city

Enters through my eye

In the windows, insomnia

Of a million dreams

The fire looks at me, cold and fake

The street consoles, safe and sound

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SONG MEANING

“São Paulo, 2015” drops you into a neon-soaked night where luxury and loneliness walk hand in hand. Jão paints the skyline with images of diamond-studded chests, satin skin, and rooftop triumphs, only to reveal a heart that keeps slipping through his own fingers. The city feels like a fever dream: glamorous hotel suites, endless parties, and bathrooms packed with strangers chasing the same high. Each glittering light promises escape, yet every dawn leaves the singer right back where he started—staring at himself and feeling nothing at all.

Below the shimmer, the song wrestles with identity. Jão traces his journey from a small rural town to São Paulo’s sprawling asphalt, carrying ambition in one pocket and his past in the other. The metropolis becomes a drug that “will use you,” lifting him sky-high before plunging him down again. While he hops from bed to bed trying to fill the void, he realizes the only person he cannot outrun is himself. “São Paulo, 2015” ultimately captures the bittersweet thrill of chasing dreams in a city that gives you everything, then takes back what mattered most, leaving you to decide whether to numb the pain or finally confront it.

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