La Memoria

The old loves that are not here
The illusion of those who lost
All the promises that fade away
And those who fell in any war
Everything is stored in the memory
Dream of life and history

Deception and complicity
Of the genocides that roam free
The pardon and the final point
To the beasts of that hell
Everything is stored in the memory
Dream of life and history

Memory awakens to hurt
The sleeping peoples
Who don't let it live
Free like the wind

The disappeared who are sought
With the color of their births
Hunger and abundance coming together
Abuse with its bad memory
Everything is etched in the memory
Thorn of life and history

Two thousand could eat for a year
With the cost of a military minute
How many would stop being slaves
For the price of a bomb to the sea
Everything is etched in the memory
Thorn of life and history

Memory pricks until bleeding
The peoples who tie it down
And don't let it walk
Free like the wind

All the dead from AMIA
And those from the Israeli embassy
The secret power of weapons
Justice that looks but doesn't see
Everything is hidden in the memory
Refuge of life and history

It was when the churches fell silent
It was when football ate everything
That the Palotino fathers and Angelelli
Left their blood in the mud
Everything is hidden in the memory
Refuge of life and history

Memory explodes until overcoming
The peoples that crush it
And don't let it be
Free like the wind

The bullet to Chico Mendes in Brazil
One hundred fifty thousand Guatemalans
Miners facing the rifle
Student repression in Mexico
Everything is loaded in the memory
Weapon of life and history

America with destroyed souls
The children killed by the squadron
Mugica's torment through the slums
Rodolfo Walsh's dignity
Everything is loaded in the memory
Weapon of life and history

Memory aims to kill
The peoples that silence it
And don't let it fly
Free like the wind
Free like the wind