| I'm Victoria, born 14 springs ago
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| In a village near Salta where I used to live
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| It's been over 10 years now with mom and dad
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| My brothers and my sisters have left our fields
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| We came to pile into one of those shacks at the entrance to town
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| It was dad who built it but it is not finished
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| I only have vague memories of the village
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| Mama cries when she tells me about it 'cause she doesn't like life here
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| Foreigners burned down our homes to steal our land
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| Dad gets mad, I don't understand, he's talking about food
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| He says, politicians are fear mongering predators
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| And who have a stomach instead of a heart
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| No work here, no prayer answered
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| After class with my sister we sell bracelets 2 pesos
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| But despite all these efforts, remain these days without meals
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| The night mom cries, the night mom doesn't sleep
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| My neighbor told me that during the dictatorship it was harder
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| So I'm not going to complain even if here there is no future
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| I like studying, I was told it's good but useless
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| Here many have stopped before even knowing how to write
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| In my secret garden, I cultivate the dream of being a doctor
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| Heal all his sick children who do not have enough to eat
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| I don't understand, in the city I can see all these little ones begging
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| In front of the contempt of those who are called good people
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| I wonder, don't they see the misery? |
| They crush us to bless man
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| from the other hemisphere
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| Daddy says we're treated like dogs
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| Thank God I have my family further away There are orphans living in the
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| dumps
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| Sometimes I cry on the sly, but not for long
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| 'Cause I think of my elders who knew the song of machine guns
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| And then grandma always said
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| Life is hope, if you have more of it you're like dead and living is a matter of
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| the feat
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| Dad is exhausted, he was close to madness
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| When one morning he learned that the bank had stolen his savings
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| Helpless everyone was panicked
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| He wasn't the only one, the whole nation got robbed
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| Since that day, with many people in the city, he blocks the roads for
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| shut down the country's economy
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| It's their way of making themselves heard but I'm scared
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| When he leaves, some don't come back the police are violent
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| They call them Piqueteros and the newspapers are liars
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| They say it's bandits then there are people who are afraid
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| Daddy says they can kill men but they won't kill memory
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| The mothers of the disappeared always sing against oblivion
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| We live the fruit of a failed democracy in a country so rich
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| So many children only have a cup of mate in their stomachs
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| 'Cause we're run by the crime mafia
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| I don't understand and when I ask why people always answer me
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| Because we are in Argentina |