Pa'lante

[Verse 1] Oh I just wanna go to work and get back home and be something I just wanna fall in line and do my time, and be something Well I just wanna prove my worth on the planet Earth and be something I just wanna fall in love, not fuck it up, and feel something [Verse 2] Well lately, don’t understand what I am Treated as a fool Not quite a woman or a man Well I don’t know I guess I don’t understand the plan [Verse 3] Colonized and hypnotized, be something Sterilized, dehumanized, be something Well, take your pay and stay out the way, be something Ah do your best, but fuck the rest, be something [Verse 4] Well lately, it’s been mighty hard to see Just searching for my lost humanity I look for you, my friend But do you look for me? [Instrumental] [Verse 5] Lately I’m not too afraid to die I wanna leave it all behind I think about it sometimes Lately all my time’s been movin' slow I don’t know where I’m gonna go Just give me time, I’ll know [Bridge 1] Oh, any day now Oh, any day now I will come along Oh, any day now Oh, any day now I will come along I will come along [Recording] Dead Puerto Ricans who never knew they were Puerto Ricans Who never took a coffee break from the 10th commandment To kill, kill, kill The landlords of their cracked skulls And communicate with their Latin souls Juan, Miguel, Milagros, Olga, Manuel From the nervous breakdown streets where the mice live like millionaires And the people do not live at all [Instrumental] [Outro] From el barrio to Arecibo, ¡Pa’lante! From Marble Hill to the ghost of Emmett Till, ¡Pa’lante! To Juan, Miguel, Milagros, Manuel, ¡Pa’lante! To all who came before, we say, ¡Pa’lante! To my mother and my father, I say, ¡Pa’lante! To Julia, and Sylvia, ¡Pa’lante! To all who had to hide, I say, ¡Pa’lante! To all who lost their pride, I say, ¡Pa’lante! To all who had to survive, I say, ¡Pa’lante! To my brothers, and my sisters, I say, ¡Pa’lante! ¡Pa’lante! ¡Pa’lante! To all came before, we say, ¡Pa’lante!