Historia de Papel

Left behind by ambition
Of the conquering lord
Of freedom he says I was deprived

And though I was overlooked by omission
By the historian lord
I come to liberate the memory
That nourishes my story and that's why

In your paper history
I no longer believe and I won't believe again
You no longer hide us
Even if your books deny our reality

Neither your school nor your law
Can erase what I carry in my being
It's my cultural source
That like the river water always seeks its course

My culture is my history today
And it wasn't lost in your paper space
Because my culture is my being
And even if you don't want to, I will always defend it

Because my culture is my history today
And it wasn't lost in your paper space
Because my culture is my being
And even if you don't want it, it will be with me until my death

When you tell your official history
You forget my oral tradition
And that, that's not a random fact
It's your desire to dominate

But the legacy of my oral history
Is the greatness of my dignity
It's the root of my identity
It's my pain and it's my joy and my pride
Which is as worthy of respect as yours

Because my culture is my history...
Because the legacy of my oral history
Is the greatness of my dignity
And they won't take that away from me

Because the root of my identity
Is my pain and it's my joy and my pride
Which is as worthy of respect as yours

My culture is my history...

And until my death
And they won't be able to defeat me
Beyond my death
My culture lives on forever
And even with my death
And beyond my death
And even with my death
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