India Negra Cumbia

You’re scared of me because I
Turned my heart cold, crying for my family
For the harm that’s done
The pores of our skin sweat poison
We’re intoxicated, if I find you, I’ll burn you
My dad was a fisherman, my grandpa a healer
I ask them for forgiveness for being just a junkie
Your longed-for prosperity left us in a dump
Your love is fake, my hate is real

Black Indian cumbia, black Indian cumbia
Black Indian cumbia, ancestral
Black Indian cumbia, black Indian cumbia
Black Indian cumbia, ancestral
There’s death in my fantasy
There could be something else if I see my mother defeated
Crawling at your feet for a plate of food
That’s how you buy her vote, that’s how you sell life

To God, I ask for forgiveness, forgiveness to my ancestors
Forgive me for being the violence you see in your mirror
You came to rob us, that’s why you’re scared of me
Today everything you are is how I see myself
Black Indian cumbia, black Indian cumbia
Black Indian cumbia, ancestral
Black Indian cumbia, black Indian cumbia
Black Indian cumbia, ancestral
Ohhh, oh oh oh ohh

I forget our Mapuche brothers
Massacred in the desert
I forget our Guaraní brothers
Exiled in a pine forest
I forget our Toba brothers
Murdered up north
I forget the sacred mountains
That are now mining sites

Oblivion covers, oblivion hides
Oblivion buries, no one knows where
Oblivion kills, oblivion hurts
And when we forget, what lives dies
And I’m not going to die tonight without hurting you!
There’s so little heart in your civilization, eh!
Ohhh, oh oh oh ohh