Hipocresía
Rubén Blades
Hypocrisy
Society disintegrates. Every family at war.
The corruption and misgovernment turn the city into
hell. Screams and accusations, lies and betrayals,
make reason disappear. Indifference is born,
conscience is nullified, and no ideal remains.
And everyone swears they don't understand why their dreams
today turn to shit. And they talk to me about the past in the
present, blaming others for the problem
of our common hypocrisy.
The heart becomes a trench. Its motto is every man for himself
And so, the face of a friend merges with that of an enemy.
The media increase confusion, and truth is lie and vice versa.
Our disillusionment creates desperation, and the cycle repeats with more force.
And lost in the cacophony, the will of an entire
people drowns. And between insult and the Hail Mary, I can't distinguish
between prisoner and jailer, inside the hypocrisy!
There are no longer Left or Right: there are only excuses and
pretexts. A battered rhetoric, for a planet of
ambidextrous. There is no family unity, no social justice,
no solidarity with the neighbor. Hence evil arises,
and official abuse ends up closing our path.
And everyone insists they don't understand why today's dreams
turn to shit. And we talk about the past in the
present, letting the future slip away,
living among hypocrisy.