Vidas Paralelas

While I rhyme this
On any given day
Hunger and misery
Leave a new corpse on the sidewalk

In the barracks, they salute the flag
And out here, people who trust others
Are losing hope

It's become trendy to be a
A bunch of people dying on the road
Or in the boat
Junior, the fool, poses in a magazine
For sweet sixteen girls
The rich lady gets her thighs done
And the streets are full of wood
Two kids feel like they’re in love
In their own way, you find a job as a cashier
Lung cancer is on the rise
And those bastards from the tobacco company
Keep raking it in

My people finish the race
You can smell the fear in the waiting room
That gang heats up a spoon
And it’s not the first time
The suicidal driver picks a wall
And speeds up to break free
Machoman hits his partner

In Sol, they steal your wallet
At work, they steal our whole lives
The drunks are out partying
In my neighborhood, a wall screams in big letters
Politicians to the bonfire
The neighbors complain, says the landlord
I flipped out with nobody's pups from Martin Herreguera

The crowd gets rowdy at a Pantera concert
And there are pieces of dead animals in your fridge
On any given day while I rhyme this
Students cooking pesto pasta
The anti-riot guy is more annoying than Camilo VI
A very handsome gentleman bets it all
And ends up with the opposite
A young guy dreams of living with his partner in a modest apartment

The fire lights up a Banesto office
On TV, an interview
With the gunman Charlton Heston
Two brothers sweat and enjoy
The pleasures of incest
Stoners put their dreams in a pot
Tough guys looking for a fight
Desperately searching for a false pretext
Some sucker shows up quick
Kids mess up their backs
With textbooks
A prisoner on hunger strike
Writes a manifesto
The teacher is indisposed
From some nasty Putin
Satanic bikers close
A dreadful pact
My people kicking out the rest

They are parallel lives
Contrasts
Each stick with its candle
Each crazy with their theme
Each dead with their obituary
In the city, many worlds coexist
They meet for a second
And break your scheme.