Arboleda De Ahorcados

[Music & lyrics: Lorenzo Partida]

Growing up in poverty
millions of children
rot in oblivion and vileness
the miracles of the impotent god
the long misery won't stop
a kingdom of fear
and endless hunger
only rags prevail

With eyes of charity
naked they beg for mercy
Creator of lives,
will you heal their smoking souls?
"You, merciful sage"
look at the hanging beggars
in a grove...
in a grove of hanged ones

Without ceasing the torrent stirs
and throws destruction before them
infamous executioners delight
in crushing lives...

In that confusion
the distant image of god
is only...rot...

"Lord, have mercy
on our long misery
Lord, have mercy
on our long misery"