★★★★★ (Essential Listening) Key Lyric: "E assim, no dia seguinte, ninguém mais ouviu falar / Dele e de Maria Lúcia, e daquele seu olhar." (And so, the next day, no one heard anything more about him, Maria Lúcia, or that look of hers.)
Renato Russo, a sickly, intellectual middle-class boy from Brasília, wrote the ultimate anthem of the marginal. He created a Brazilian Jesus—not a savior, but a victim. And as long as there are guns in the suburbs and love in the favelas, the caboclo will continue riding his dusty trail through the collective imagination.
