LEON GEICO - SPEAKING AMONG EQUALS

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León Gieco y Agarrate Catalina - "De Igual a Igual"

I’m a Bolivian in Italy,
a Colombian in New York,
a South American in Spain
and a Paraguayan in Asuncion.

I’m a Spaniard in Argentina
and a German in El Salvador
I’m a Frenchman gone to Chile
and a Japanese in Ecuador

The world is furnished
with woods from Brazil
and there’s big holes
in the missionary jungle

Europe has forgotten
the ships she sent this way
People wounded by the wars
were rescued by this land

If you ask me to go back where I came from
I’ll ask you to take your enterprises from my country
and that’s the way it’s going to be, speaking between us equals
and that’s the way it’s going to be, speaking between us equals

Tico, Nica, from Borinquen,
Arjo, Mejo, from Panamá
form a line at the embassy
to achieve their dream

While the Thief
full of precedent
asks for immigration papers
demanded by the president

If you ask me to go back where I came from
I’ll ask you to take your enterprises from my country
and that’s the way it’s going to be, speaking between us equals
and that’s the way it’s going to be, speaking between us equals

Those so-called illegals
that have no documents
lose their faith
without work or hope

The illegals are those
That let Pinochet get away
While England boasted
of its honor and it’s laws

If you ask me to go back where I came from
I’ll ask you to take your enterprises from my country
and that’s the way it’s going to be, speaking between us equals
and that’s the way it’s going to be, speaking between us equals

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1. While the Thief

full of precedent
asks for immigration papers
demanded by the president