Ey Paisano

Hey countryman!, what's up?
The story isn't as easy as you thought
Hey countryman!, what's up?
The story isn't as easy as you thought

It's true that our land is ancient, ancestral, cultural
But it's also true that it has kept silent about things it shouldn't have
Hey dude! Stop spewing venom with your tongue
and cool down your black envy
Take some advice dude, envy doesn't make you grow
and in case you didn't know dude, it doesn't even let you move
Start building this world you profess
as we have plenty of enemies walking on our sidewalks

There's nothing you can do against me, I have pains
that burn me and force me to be born
day by day, day by day

Hey countryman!, what's up?
The story isn't as easy as you thought
The story isn't as easy as you thought

That's the challenge, we have to be born
Never die, be like Violeta or like Che

I have nothing to teach you dude
I'm still that gray little monkey
who in his town used to be happy
With my brother close, with my father far away
who watched my mother sing and cry
through the clear corners of her loneliness

Hey countryman!, what's up?
Don't let them take away even your pain
Don't let television eat you up. It's almost all lies
and man never reached the moon

Hey countryman!, what's up?
The story isn't as easy as you thought
Hey countryman!, what's up?
The story isn't as easy as you thought

If you come across the tyrant in a fancy elevator
enjoy the encounter and make him pay for the pain

Stay calm only as far as it goes
turn anger into fuel and commit to growing

Remember the children of Afghanistan
the poisoned water of Andalgalá
the centuries-old forests they will bury
the killers of Kosteki and Santillán on the loose

The dead that the system sells to the press
the 30,000 brothers who never return

Hey buddy! Don't pretend to cry for what you've never bled
Don't put on a pedestal what you've never believed

Start walking again, use your pains as fuel or gas
Remember your little town and that humble old man you used to greet

And what happened, Lord of Evil
the kings of this madhouse let you off the hook?

Here is the new generation
building a world full without idealization

And I don't care. I thought I wouldn't talk about politics
but now that I remember, we all do politics as we walk

I'm leaving for now. And not without reminding you to remember not to die
that you have new worlds to give birth to and to live and to live

Hey countryman!, what's up?
The story isn't as easy as you thought
Hey countryman!, what's up?
The story isn't as easy as you thought