Un Sueño (Cuba Grita Libertad)

Attention, I'm going to speak for the 11 million (Micha)
I'm going to vent like one should
You do it like bla bla bla, I do it with songs
(Empty stomachs, occupied minds)

Shit, let the men arrive
I come from the ghetto, I come from the backstreets
To make this song, I have a ten million reasons
Yes, the people suffer and others make decisions

An urgent change is what the people need
It's bad, even the president knows it
Life is hard, way too hard
You'd have to be there because no one can come to tell you [about it]

A change is needed, even if by chance
Every day it gets worse, Havana can't take much more
The people are saying: We've had enough!
They travel across twenty countries or on a raft, they'll go

Now they changed the currency in the middle of a pandemic
Freedom of expression, but speaking out ends in tragedy
They squeezed the shoes, they threw out the socks
And between the lines and COVID, things got serious

Are you listening? There's no medicine to ease these pains
The country needs a change, better times
So that their children can eat, the mothers have to stop eating
You can't hide the Sun, the truth cannot be hidden

We're going from worse to bad, from bad to worse
I don't want a black and white Cuba, I want her with color
I don't want to see them suffering, I want them dying of laughter
Because last night I had a dream and just thinking about it gives me goosebumps

I had a dream (listen, I'll tell you)
And from that dream, I didn't want to wake
(But I know you can imagine it)
I dreamt that I led the people
There was no hunger, no need
Sha-la-la-la (sha-la-la-la)
I had a dream (and I'll tell you)
From which I didn't want to wake (you wouldn't imagine)
I dreamt that I led the people
There was no hunger, no need
(The people saying hopefully)

The suffering of me and mine, let it end
The repression, let it end
The abuse, let it end
The Cuban anguish, let it end

Ever since I can remember
All I could see were problems and separation
I'm looking at a people in desperation
And if I don't say any of this, my heart will explode

Even the psychologists are falling into depression
How can you say it's all good when the situation is so bad
Listen! Get your sandal, kill the rat
All I know is that it's time to find a solution

No one told me what to do, I'm doing this by myself
Telling the truth, telling you what I see
Listen, to improve their lives the people keep leaving
And in the empty rooms [they left], a mother continues suffering

Ah, enough is enough, enough is enough,
Cuba screams for freedom – and you know it
But enough is enough, enough is enough,
Cuba screams for freedom – and you know it

This is not a crime, I'm telling the truth
It's that a change is needed and the change is needed now
Yes, a total change for all Cubans
It's not on the internet, it's in our hands

The people keep paying the consequences
We can't take the pain anymore, not even with anesthesia
They're appealing to the saints, they're praying in the churches
That the government would consciously take note about the issue

Now there are lines, everything's expensive, there's none of this there's none of that
Because they can't leave, the people are going insane
With empty fridges, with only water from the coconut [to live on]
Live the hopes and the brokenhearted

I don't want what happened to me to happen to my children
Nor suffer what I suffered, nor cry what I cried
Last night I had a dream, I told them but they didn't believe me
That I sang with Beny, with Celia on L and 23

There was no censorship, it rained coffee from the sky
The hotels, the casinos, the parties without end
For Cuba I gave my two hands, my head, and two feet
I was born Cuban, proper Cuban and Cuban I will die

Hey
If tomorrow I die, let them bury me in Havana
And let the people not cry but start to sing
That El Micha was an OG Cuban (jaja)
Original Cuban (that's me)
Original Cuban (from the heart)
Original Cuban
Because I'm an original Cuban, you already know
Yeah!

Micha
I said no, no
I represent the neighborhood
I said no, no
I represent the people
(Jerry)
Because I'm an original Cuban
(Lebram)

They'll take me off their list
I'm Michael alias El Micha
I'm not a politician or a communist
What I do, I do alone without all the show
This is going to the newspapers and magazines
If you're not going to participate, don't get dressed
A change is needed and Cuba is ready