Homeland and Life

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Maykel Osorbo, El Funky, Yotuel, Gente de Zona and Descemer BuenoPhoto © Collage

"Patria y Vida" is a song resulting from the collaboration of Maykel Osorbo, El Funky, Yotuel, Gente de Zona, and Descemer Bueno, dedicated to demanding the end of the Cuban regime and the freedom of Cuba. Here are the lyrics of "Patria y Vida:"

And you are my siren's song Because with your voice my sorrows fade away And this feeling is already aged You hurt me so much even though you're far away Today I invite you to walk through my lands To show you the worth of your ideals We are humans even if we don't think alike Let's not treat each other or harm each other like animals This is my way of telling you My people cry, and I feel their voice Your five and nine, my double two Sixty years stuck in the domino game All the fanfare for the 500th anniversary of Havana While at home, the pots are empty What are we celebrating if people are in a hurry Swapping Che Guevara and Martí for currency Everything has changed, it's not the same There's an abyss between you and me Advertisement for paradise in Varadero While mothers cry for their departed children It's over, your five and nine, my double two It's over, sixty years stuck in the domino game, look It's over, your five and nine, my double two It's over, sixty years stuck in the domino game We are artists, we are sensitivity The true history, not the poorly told one We are the dignity of a whole trampled people At gunpoint and with words that still mean nothing No more lies, my people demand freedom, no more doctrines Let's not shout Fatherland or Death but Fatherland and Life And start building what we dreamt, what they destroyed with their hands Let the bloodshed stop for thinking differently Who told you that Cuba belongs to you when my Cuba belongs to all my people It's over, your time has run out, the silence is broken It's over, laughter and tears are running now It's over, we are not afraid, the deception is over It's over, sixty-two years doing harm There we live with the uncertainty of the past planted Fifteen friends stationed, ready to die We raise the flag, still the regime's repression every day Anamely Ramos firm with her poetry Omara Ruiz Urquiola giving us the breath of life They broke our door, violated our temple And the world is aware that the San Isidro Movement continues, determined We are still in the same situation, security adding prisms These things outrage me, the riddle is over Of your malicious revolution, I'm Funky style, here's my signature You are no longer needed, you are leaving The people are tired of enduring, a new dawn we are awaiting It's over, your five and nine, my double two It's over, sixty years stuck in the domino game, look It's over, your five and nine, my double two It's over, sixty years stuck in the domino game FATHERLAND AND LIFE FATHERLAND AND LIFE FATHERLAND AND LIFE FATHERLAND AND LIFE (SIXTY YEARS STUCK IN THE DOMINO GAME) FATHERLAND AND LIFE FATHERLAND AND LIFE FATHERLAND AND LIFE FATHERLAND AND LIFE

Cubans shout "Freedom" in protests on May 17th.

  • CiberCuba Editorial