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"Back to the Primitive"
Back to the Primitive
1st track of Primitive
Sung by Max Cavalera, Mikey Doling
Duration 4:21
Genre(s) Nu metal
Written by Max Cavalera
Produced by Toby Wright, Max Cavalera
Released in 2000
Alternate title "Primitive"
Next track
"Pain"
Single
Released on December 4, 2000
Record label Roadrunner

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"Back to the Primitive" is the lead track of the second album Primitive, released in 2000. Max Cavalera performs a berimbau before the song really begins, but in the music video, the intro is Cavalera alternating with crowds chanting 'Soulfly' over tribal drumming. Then downtuned guitars would arrive, playing all the way till the end, blending in with tribal drumming and blabbering. This song is about dissolving the state into the local society of tribes.

"Back to the Primitive" was first of three singles released from Primitive, more than two months after the album itself came out. "Back to the Primitive" was played live nearly 400 times, the most of any Soulfly song.

Lyrics[]

Um dois treis quatro

Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
We got our life to live
The way we want to be

Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
Who feels it knows it
And God will guide me

Back to the primitive
Fuck all your bullshit
We're back to set it free
Confronting the negative

Back to the primitive
Fuck all you wannabes
You don't mean shit to me
Let it bleed

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Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
We got our life to live
The way we want to be

Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
How it used to be
Check your reality

Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
Fuck all you wannabes
Yeah

Back to the primitive
Fuck all your politics
Forever we will be
What we want to be

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