| Oh I just wanna go to work --
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| And get back home, and be something
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| I just wanna fall and lie --
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| And do my time, and be something
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| Well I just wanna prove my worth --
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| On the planet Earth, and be, something
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| I just wanna fall in love
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| Not fuck it up, and feel something
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| Well lately, don’t understand what I am
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| Treated as a fool
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| Not quite a woman or a man
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| Well I don’t know
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| I guess I don’t understand the plan
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| Colonized, and hypnotized, be something
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| Sterilized, dehumanized, be something
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| Well take your pay
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| And stay out the way, be something
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| Ah do your best
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| But fuck the rest, be something
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| Well lately, it’s been mighty hard to see
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| Just searching for my lost humanity
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| I look for you, my friend
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| But do you look for me?
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| Lately I’m not too afraid, to die
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| I wanna leave it all behind
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| I think about it sometimes
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| Lately all my time’s been movin slow
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| I don’t know where I’m gonna go
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| Just give me time, I’ll know
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| Oh, any day now
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| Oh, any day now
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| I will come along
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| Oh, any day now
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| Oh, any day now
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| I will come along
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| I will come along
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| Dead Puerto Ricans who never knew they were Puerto Ricans
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| Who never took a coffee break from the 10th commandment
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| To kill, kill, kill
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| The landlords of their cracked skulls
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| And communicate with their Latin souls
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| Juan, Miguel, Milagros, Olga, Manuel
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| From the nervous breakdown streets where the mice live like millionaires
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| And the people do not live at all
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| From el barrio to Arecibo, ¡Pa'lante!
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| From Marble Hill to the ghost of Emmett Till, ¡Pa'lante!
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| To Juan, Miguel, Milagros, Manuel, ¡Pa'lante!
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| To all who came before, we say, ¡Pa'lante!
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| To my mother and my father, I say, ¡Pa'lante!
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| To Julia, and Sylvia, ¡Pa'lante!
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| To all who had to hide, I say, ¡Pa'lante!
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| To all who lost their pride, I say, ¡Pa'lante!
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| To all who had to survive, I say, ¡Pa'lante!
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| To my brothers, and my sisters, I say, ¡Pa'lante!
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| ¡Pa'lante!
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| ¡Pa'lante!
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| To all came before, we say, ¡Pa'lante! |