How long we gonna play
this game
Like there's more than
one America?
How long are we gonna
send people home
To the streets?
How long we gonna keep
exporting
Violence, extortion,
corruption and gangs?
How much we gonna pay
in the factories?
Ensenada T-shirts the factory pays 90 pesos a day that's less than
Five bucks a day just an hour and a half cross the border
(And we talk about $15 an hour as a just wage)
And the Governor of
Baja Sur is talking to the farm workers
From Oaxaca, says get
back to work
If not you'll get
deported
How long we gonna deny
That this is our mess?
How long we gonna
build walls on the lines
In our heads?
How long will we say
that it's "free and fair trade"
For trickle-up profits
to keep workers enslaved
The corporations come
in, they have free reign
They buy the elections
and they own the terrain
I have this friend who
rode the train all the way
From Honduras as a
teen
Just following that
money stream
No capital, no money,
and death in the streets
I met this girl in
Guatemala, she was cute as could be
Unfortunately some
gangster, he thought the same thing
Asked her to be his he
said please
And when she said no
he shot out her face
She was fifteen
You know where street gangs started?
Good old LA.
Good old LA.
In Mexico City, this
girl shows up she's been raped
The coyotes said
"this is Texas" and left her on the street
She paid 3 years' wages
to come to the States
And there were so many people I met in the
Soup kitchen in Guate
Who had just been deported
This system destroys families.
The best Americans I
know are illegals
They work hard, they
invest,
They sacrifice for
their families
This is how it works:
The gringos sell the
guns and buy the cocaine
Wal-Mart pays the bribes
and corrupts the state
California deports the
Dieciochos and MS13
And Americans hire
illegal so they keep on coming
It's simple supply and
demand, baby.
We want everything we
want; we want it cheap
Law and human cost be
damned, it's for the money
Economic growth is a
lie if the people don't have a stake
And that's hard to
have when your country is ruled by
8 families
I'm an American
citizen
But I ain't earned it,
If we're going to
treat countries like colonies
They are citizens the
same
And if Dole and
Chiquita and Firestone gonna run countries
If they're gonna bully nations to get paid
Well, than who am I to
blame their citizens for running away
Who invaded
who?
The Marine Corps has toured every place here to Panama
The Marine Corps has toured every place here to Panama
And that's not to mention
the thugs from the old CIA
But its unjust
businesses who run the extortion ring
And mega-corporations shout out free trade
And mega-corporations shout out free trade
Because they are
making a killing exploiting the weak
That's not to mention
US farm subsidies
So tell me, what's a living wage?
How much are you worth?
I guess that depends on your passport.
I guess that depends on your passport.
How long we gonna play
this game
Like there's more than
one America?
How long are we gonna
send people home
To the streets?
How long we gonna keep
dumping the surplus
Of our gluttony on our
neighbors' fragile economies?
Look I know one thing:
Love your neighbor as
yourself.
America can be proud,
she's a good neighbor to
Countries that are far
away,
But if you think the
United States is or was great
You obviously haven't
read Central American History.
I look around, and I
see Americans.
Somos Americanos,
And we're all in this shit juntos, waist-deep
And we're all in this shit juntos, waist-deep
And you know, the rich
families in Guate, they build their
Walls bigger and
bigger and put broken glass on top,
They send their kids
to private schools
Because they want to
keep out the city that's outside their gates
And the racist Estadounidenses are doing the exact same thing
But everything just
perpetuates and nothing will change
Until we all, rich and poor,
Take some pride in our
city
Our continent, our
people,
Nuestra América,
And we tear down the
walls
Break monopolies and
the "too-bigs"
And the people are
free
I'm an American citizen
And I believe every
person from here to Panama
Has earned that right
in blood
You can't treat countries like slaves
You can't treat countries like slaves
You can't say we're
not the same.
You should be afraid, but not of Latinos
You know there's a cure for that fear, it's called Spanish class
You know there's a cure for that fear, it's called Spanish class
No you shouldn't be afraid of poor people
You should be afraid of justice, that America, one day will pay
Do you think God doesn't hear the cries of the mother deported away from her children?
Do you think God doesn't hear the cries of the worker denied his wages?
Do you think God doesn't hear the cries of the exploited?
Do you think God doesn't hear the cries of the poor?
Do you think God doesn't hear the cries of the worker denied his wages?
Do you think God doesn't hear the cries of the exploited?
Do you think God doesn't hear the cries of the poor?
And to the Donald Trumps, to the ones who feed off of racist fear
Who stir up hatred to get a response
Who manipulate with stereotype and hate
Your fall will be swift and you will be judged
With the same measure you extended to those outside the system
Thus says the Lord
How long we gonna play this game
Like there's more than
one America?
How long are we gonna
send people home
To the streets?
How long we gonna keep
exporting
Violence, extortion,
corruption and gangs?
How much we gonna pay
in the factories?
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