El Aguante

We were born to endure what the body holds
We endure what came and we endure what is to come
We endure even if we have seconds counted
Our body endures being hanged for up to fifteen minutes
We endure lashes, having both arms cut off
Fractures in any bone, three weeks with a cast

We endure all the time the urge to go to the bathroom
To see Halley's Comet, one must endure seventy years
We endure school, college, high school
At dinner time, we endure burps
The people of Burundi continue to endure famine
We endure three days to reach the moon

We endure the cold of the Arctic, the heat of the tropics
We endure microscopic viruses with antibodies
We endure storms, hurricanes, bad weather
We endure Nagasaki, we endure Hiroshima
Even if we don't want to, we endure new laws
We endure today that there are still kings
We punish the humble and endure the cruel
We endure being slaves because of our skin color
We endure capitalism, communism, socialism, feudalism
We endure even stupidity
We endure the guilty when they act innocent
We endure every year our damn president

For what was and what could have been
For what is, for what may be missing
For what is to come and for this moment
To toast to endurance

For what was and what could have been
For what is, for what may be missing
For what is to come and for this moment
Raise your glass and toast to endurance
Cheers to endurance

We endure any kind of pain even if it hurts
We endure Pinochet, we endure Videla
Franco, Mao, Ríos Montt, Mugabe
Hitler, Idi Amin, Stalin, Bush, Truman, Ariel Sharon, and Hussein
We endure more than twenty concentration camps
When you swim underwater, you hold your breath
To build a wall, we endure the bricks
Those who don't smoke endure the smell of cigarettes
We endure Monsanto infecting our food
We endure Agent Orange and pesticides

When we sail, we endure seasickness
We endure minimum wage and unemployment
We endure the Falklands and the British invasion in the city of Pompeii
We endure volcanic lava and within the logic
Of our humanity, we believe the lie and no one endures the truth

For what was and what could have been
For what is, for what may be missing
For what is to come and for this moment
Raise your glass and toast to endurance
Cheers to endurance

We endure the atheist, the Mormon, the Christian
The Buddhist, the Jew
We endure the pagan
We endure the one who sells bullets and the one who shoots them
We endure Lennon's death, Víctor Jara's death
We endure many wars, Vietnam, the Cold War
The Hundred Years' War, the Six-Day War

Let them endure the rematch, we come for revenge
Today our liver endures whatever the gang invites

For what was and what could have been
For what is, for what may be missing
For what is to come and for this moment
To toast to endurance

For what was and what could have been
For what is, for what may be missing
For what is to come and for this moment
Raise your glass and toast to endurance
Cheers to endurance