Sólo Estoy Sobreviviendo

Don't think I'm plastic and superficial
Or that my IQ is zero
Don't think I'm a material boy
I'm just trying to hide

Don't think I don't have the mettle of a samurai
Not that my brain is the size of a bonsai
Although I know that today I am offside
It doesn't seem like it but in here I have an Intel inside

I could stay home drinking cachaça
Could be a NASA technician
Could show what's behind this casing
But today I have to be one more in the crowd

Don't stop to question
Nor feel guilty of being one more
And as the occasion dictates
Adapt like a chameleon

Because today I don't love myself
See looking for a whole why
Letting what happens happens
And do not hesitate if you doubt
Nor be so transcendental
Don't get me wrong
I'm just surviving

There are times when I get tired of being pointed at
That they stab me with their eyes for nothing
I know that my values are valid and if things don't work out
I do like Woody Allen's Zelig

But that doesn't extinguish my flame
Even the Dalai Lama had his 15 minutes of fame
It is the drama of the one who does not cry, does not breast
But I swear that the line of my encephalogram is not flat

And so I go with my altered alter ego
That looks like me but a little tuned
That makes the complicated simple
And that I accept to survive and not to be accepted

When I have to pretend
It's time to pose again
I know that he assumed my direction
My self-preservation instinct

Because today I don't want to see myself
Looking for a reason
Letting what happens happens
And do not hesitate if you doubt
Nor be so transcendental
Don't get me wrong
I'm just surviving

Surviving, surviving

In a world that discriminates and tortures
That the different takes its toll
He who goes against the current, crushes
Closure and wants to hide like garbage

That marginalizes, incriminates and censors
From the front he approves and from behind he murmurs
That punishes those who leave the structure
And that never sutures what cracks

And the one who goes out of tune in his score
It goes against nature or has a dark intention
And their fight will be hard with facades that seem soft
But souls that do not fracture

I'm just surviving
I'm just surviving