Hay Vida

Sometimes you gotta dig a little deeper
Beneath the misery and disgrace
Behind the lies and cruelty
And suddenly, incredible things appear
The touch of an outstretched hand forging a new alliance
Healing the soul sore from distrust

Under a million spears twisted by slaughter
There's always a welcome to some place
That serves as a refuge from thunder and lightning
The jolt of a smile that reaches you
If after the loss vengeance is born and everything is a lost cause
I say: If there is life, there is hope

There's brightness behind closed eyelids
Of the doctor taking a deep breath entering an operating room
In the sensitive index of a photographer
Who wants to pierce you with images of a basement
In the dust specks on a vinyl lover's records
And the notes of a melancholic piano
In the rush of the one driving an ambulance fast
Facing the Arctic cold to deliver an organ

And all my love goes into every autograph
And all my life goes into the pen
And the darkness of a million musicians dissipates
When we make our fear public
There is life sometimes hidden in a secluded place
In the baseboards of poor suburbs
Where men and women on foot

Give their love and faith to fill your stomach
And I can't deny it's something magical
The strength that faces the factual power
Against climate change
Lesson from the professor to the stupid and fanatic
On ships sailing the Baltic and suffering many reprisals
There is life in everyone who alleviates with their help
Every naked reality in the fields of Somalia

There is life in pure prayers without fanfare
In the cold wind and the scent of magnolia
In the feats and stumbles that remain for history
In the Ferris wheel, in the child, their eagerness, their euphoria
Those who will never return but are in our memory
In the calm of the one who stays silent and listens
In the spark that ignites the brave who undertakes the fight
In the orange dawn, wishing you good morning

In friends who speak plainly, without hypocrisy
There is life in love, life in love
Life in love, life in love
Life in love, life in love
Life in love, life in love (life in love)
There is life in love, life in love
Life in love, life in love
Life in love, life in love
Life in love, life in love (life in love)

Scraps in the volumes of aged literature
Guardians who don't allow us to forget the past
And the mistakes we carry
How many times have I felt liberated reading you?
From anger, from the tornado of my rage
From the spiral produced by lies
From wanting to throw it all overboard, and let my insides rot
I see life in those who manage to rid themselves of guilt
There's the one who observes the cosmos absorbed
They feel involved; dream, pose hypotheses

Teaches me that facing difficult challenges
You have to break their limits running with their prosthetics
In the crack of the one breaking their armor towards other hearts
And thus will silence their addictions
And puts all their courage and bravery
To start a fight where only each day exists
Life in that selfless company
That soothes the wound of a dying being
Spreads their kindness in the face of vital chaos

And fills the air of a hospital with smiles
There is life in inhospitable orbits, of the compassionate man
Who holds your hand in palliative care
In the stroke that a soul slides on a canvas
In the embrace that self-love offers you
And in the full and selfless love spoken by actions
That feeling inside is vacations without conditions
That I look into your eyes, and find positive reasons
That life is the gift of being alive

That I can't conceive the path without dancing with words
I sleep with nouns, they're my best psychiatrists
Behind the noise, behind the ego and cynicism
There's a teacher wishing for you to discover yourself
There is life in love, life in love
Life in love, life in love
Life in love, life in love
Life in love, life in love (life in love)
There is life in love, life in love
Life in love, life in love
Life in love, life in love
Life in love, life in love (life in love)