A photo showing Companhia Paulista workers in the 1961 strike, blocking a G.E. V8 electric locomotive in the Campinas station. This strike was the beginning of the end of a legend: the São Paulo state government used it as a pretext to take over the railroad. Decadence was slow but irreversible from this point on...

So I open my door to my enemies
And I ask could we wipe the slate clean
But they tell me to please go f... myself
You know you just can't win.

You can read additional info about this strike in an O Estado de São Paulo article about the (bad) situation of Brazilian railroads that was published in 1988.

This photo was originally published in the O Estado de São Paulo newspaper and is the cover of a book by Liliana R. Petrilli Segnini about the work conditions in the Companhia Paulista. The copy of this photo was kindly sent by João Baptista Lago; read more information in his Companhia Paulista page. The lyrics were extracted from the song Lost for Words, from the Pink Floyd album The Division Bell, that you are hearing in a MIDI version.