Chamas da Guerra Lyrics (English Translation) – Shooter_sz

Chamas da Guerra (English Translation) Lyrics Meaning

[Introdução]
There’s this beautiful peaceful place the guy dreams about as a kid, full of golden wheat fields and green meadows where war never touches, but it’s super far away and feels like a fairy tale. Back where he actually lives, everybody treats war like it’s the coolest thing ever, songs and stories make fighting sound heroic. He doesn’t really get it yet, but he’s young, angry at the world, and dying to be part of that glory. The men around him are obsessed with battle, ready to die for it. His dad, though, is different—he once hid a warrior because he knew how ugly war really is. Dad keeps trying to pull the boy away from all that violence, telling him it makes no sense and that he has no real enemies. But the kid’s stubborn, full of rage, says if you won’t take me to war I’ll find my own way, I’ll learn to fight alone, I want to live and die like a warrior no matter what.

[Verso 1]
Dad explains that once a man has a family or something precious, he starts fearing death. He wanted the best for his son, so he hands over his own daggers and says a real warrior doesn’t even need a big sword. Then dad gets killed. After crying everything out, all that’s left inside the boy is pure hate. He swears he’ll avenge his father no matter how long it takes—years, decades, whatever. That innocent little kid dies that day. The hatred eats him alive from the inside and reshapes him on the outside into something dark, and there’s no turning back now.

[Refrão]
He looks at himself and doesn’t even recognize who he’s turned into. He had to kill the old version of himself to survive this path. He remembers every terrible thing he’s done, but going back to who he was is impossible. Revenge has him chained up like a slave. He wants the killer to feel every bit of his pain. Even if it’s not directly revenge anymore, he’s lost—he doesn’t know which way to go. Rage filled him completely once, but after it burned out, it just left a huge empty hole inside.

[Verso 2]
Killing the guy who murdered his dad would actually be easy now, he could do it sneaky and cowardly like the murderer did, but he refuses to sink that low because he knows whose son he is. He’ll do it honorably, the way his father would have. A little kid suddenly had to carry this massive weight all alone. He won’t accept defeat, won’t give up—kill me now or watch me get back up every time I fall. Someone (maybe a mentor or enemy) keeps watching him closely, teaching him new things whenever he fails, testing how far he can go. He warns them he’s nobody’s friend or slave, getting too close will get you killed. As years go by he turns colder and colder, slowly becoming exactly like those war-obsessed men he grew up around. The pain keeps piling up inside until one day he realizes he’s completely lost himself somewhere along the way.

[Ponte]
He hates war now, hates everything it does to people. He knows his dad wouldn’t be proud of what he’s become. He’s talking straight to his dead father asking if this nightmare is really what you wanted for me, and apologizes to his mom, promising he’ll come home one day. He’s destroyed so many families, taken innocent lives, and only later realizes those victims could easily have been his own family. That’s when it hits him—he’s turned into the exact monster he always hated, the thing that stole everything from him. Dad always said one day he’d understand that a true warrior doesn’t need a sword, but he still doesn’t get it. He promised to get revenge to end the pain, but the more he tries the more he suffers. Deep down he knows dad wouldn’t tell him to stop because he wouldn’t listen anyway. Dad said you have no enemies, but everywhere he looks now that’s all he sees.

[Refrão]
He’s completely stuck—ten years later and nothing has changed, he’s still in the same dark place. How many other people are trapped in this same cycle? He doesn’t want to hear about some peaceful paradise like Vinlândia or about family anymore. Nobody really knows him since that awful day everything shattered. He refuses to think about his childhood, just wants to bury the pain forever. If he ever lets himself cry again, he knows he won’t be able to handle it.

[Verso 3]
In the world he ended up in, everybody was a slave to either powerful men or to greed. He wasted years of his life chasing one tiny chance at revenge. He never bowed to gold or rulers, but he became a total slave to vengeance instead. He starts wondering what his life would even look like if someone else had killed his dad’s murderer first—what would he have done if revenge wasn’t the only thing keeping him going? Hate pushed him incredibly far, but all he ever saw ahead was more hate. Then suddenly the target is dead right in front of him and the hate just vanishes, leaving him a total empty shell.

[Verso 4]
Now that he has nothing left, why would he be afraid of anything, even death? All he has are nightmares drowning him in guilt for his sins. Hate brought him all the way here, but he doesn’t feel hate anymore, and that’s exactly why he feels trapped and suffocating. He can’t hold the guilt in anymore—the weight has grown bigger than he is. He still sees his dad’s ghost trying to teach his heart the lesson it never learned. Dad says this fight is yours alone, but you should carry the lives you took as your strength, turn the burden into a new purpose, let the emptiness be a fresh start, and be reborn as a real warrior. So he decides he’ll carry those souls forever—not to fix the past, but to keep a promise. He’ll plant way more than he ever destroyed, build more than he tore down, and end violence, war, and slavery for good. There’s only one way forward now.

[Pré-Refrão]
He finally comes home to his mom, tells her everything he’s been through, and for the first time in years he can actually cry. Nothing he did can ever be forgiven, but today he can finally say out loud that he has no enemies, truly no enemies.

[Chorus]
He doesn’t recognize what he’s become anymore. He had to kill the person he used to be. He never forgot the horrors he caused, but he can never go back. Revenge had him completely chained. He wanted the world to feel his pain. Even if revenge isn’t the point anymore, he’s lost and doesn’t know where to go. Anger once filled every part of him, then burned out and left nothing but a deep empty void.