Disparos de Silencio (feat. Wöyza)

Martyrs, saints, warriors, brothers
Dead, isolated, murdered
Life missions, power missions
Love and respect for those who fought yesterday

Armies, bullets, pressure and punishment
They are not forgotten, not even by their enemies
Human examples, displays of humanity
Reason is silent when truth speaks

And history repeats itself, there is exemplary punishment
And a thousand ways to end the one who shouts
The one who stirs consciences and speaks of utopias
Convinced heroes, persecuted by the CIA
They pour out their agony for freedom being censored
And in cold blood without mercy, murdered
By cowardly rulers, my rap burns as I remind them
Telling the world that their struggle was not in vain
Like John Lennon, I fear it was a poison
It wasn't good to talk too much
To talk about loving more, without evil, without weapons
A Jesus Christ in the 70s, the threat of a good guy
Imagine All The People, as the immortal anthem of a myth
Of colossal influence and fatal consequence
5 bullets in his back, the sentence for speaking truths
For imagining a world of equalities
Of music, love, and opportunities
Ideals of a crazy harlequin who came to an end
For daydreaming, he ended up dead like Luther King
Martin said goodbye to us too soon
Preaching peace by example
It was the fury of a government
That hated to see a black man like that
Fighting relentlessly for a people and a skin color
And that's how hatred and its frenzy
Hunted him down that gray afternoon in Memphis, Tennessee
And there another dove fell to the ground without consolation
Hope wept, heard by a whole planet
Once again, rancor won, romance succumbed
Perhaps everything would be different today without that mishap
Perhaps Bob Marley didn't die of cancer
Perhaps Tupac Shakur died for his Black Panther attitude
Mystery or conspiracy?
The revolution paid its price
And whoever spoke too much found silent shots

Martyrs, saints, warriors, brothers
Dead, isolated, murdered
Life missions, power missions
Love and respect for those who fought yesterday

Armies, bullets, pressure and punishment
They are not forgotten, not even by their enemies
Human examples, displays of humanity
Reason is silent when truth speaks

From this black book my memory flies
Towards the bullet that killed Sam Cooke in a roadside motel
How much I wish to be there and warn him
That the Ku Klux Klan had a plan to kill him
A millionaire black man in the 60s
The mirror of a hungry race
Feeding his soul while driving away the oppressor
A Change Is Gonna Come
He was right and that was his only crime
His songs still live and tear me apart
Like those of Víctor Jara
The danger of a man and a guitar
Shot at point-blank range, by Pinochet's regime
His lifeless body ended up in the mud like Che Guevara
And the broken union by gunshot or vile club
Nothing to do for the weakest
Seeing their icons fall like cigarette butts
For preferring to die standing than to live on their knees
Simple lives enlightened, defeated a hundred thousand
Without fear of dying for their principles, like Harvey Milk
I learned from Gandhi and his humble attire
A pacifist exterminated in the most violent way
Sad ending for one who faces evil
I remember Kennedy bleeding in his presidential car
He wanted to give us a tomorrow and died at an early age
I wonder if everything will be the same with Barack Obama
If the drama will cut our hope
If the dance of time will erase the traces of those massacres
Today I break a lance for the fight I witness
And may the silent shots cease forever

And for Indira Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto
All over the world, women are in mourning
People with conscience, generosity
Dedication and resistance based on equality
Pride and dignity, spirituality
Secrets and omissions, theirs is our reality
Back with The Butterflies, here with The 13 Roses
Their courage defeated the silent shots

Martyrs, saints, warriors, brothers
Dead, isolated, murdered
Life missions, power missions
Love and respect for those who fought yesterday

Armies, bullets, pressure and punishment
They are not forgotten, not even by their enemies
Human examples, displays of humanity
Reason is silent when truth speaks

Oh
The truth