BOLIVIA

Today I was in Bolivia, what a beautiful country
Today I was in Bolivia, what a beautiful country
Today I was in Bolivia, what a beautiful country

I saw a very pretty chola, gray skirt
She sells cheap chicha, bread and corn
I saw some silver mines, in Potosí
There's nothing left, just peppers and chili
Today I was in Bolivia, what a beautiful country
Today I was in Bolivia, what a beautiful country

I saw Oruro and the Yungas, I also saw La Paz
And in their eyes of wind, the sea that is not there
I saw two miners die, women cry
So that the foreigner takes a lot of money
Today I was in Bolivia, what a beautiful country
Today I was in Bolivia (Ah)
I saw the looseness harden
I saw the pressure felt by the altitude
My tough face is also a caricature
I saw a little creature become a man
I saw myself as a giant, I saw myself as tiny
I got lost and found myself in the same minute

And for the first time, absolute silence
Like an entire city in mourning
I saw how the singani warmed its belly
Giving a hint to the exercise of a new dance
I saw their strong hands making movements
Those men only cry inside
The sky so blue turned so red
And the light of its stars in a stream
Lake water mixed with earth
The peace that reigned dethroned by war
I saw how you killed their philosophy
That sword stuck still has an edge
Who would have thought? You killed in cold blood
A people that doesn't defend itself has empty hands
That wound overflowing with pus
They wanted to steal its light
Crushing a culture in the name of Jesus
Demonizing their beliefs, pointing with your cross
I didn't see us become the backyard
Of the great mansion of foreign countries
In our own home, they made us strangers
Now freedom seems like a foreign good to us

Today I was in Bolivia, what a beautiful country
Today I was in Bolivia, what a beautiful country
(Today I was in Bolivia)
Today I was in Bolivia, what a beautiful country
Today I was in Bolivia, what a beautiful country