Patria y Vida is a song resulting from the collaboration of Maykel Osorbo, El Funky, Yotuel, Gente de Zona, and Descemer Bueno, dedicated to calling for the end of the Cuban regime and the freedom of Cuba.
Lyrics of Patria y Vida:
Y You are my siren's song
Because with your voice my sorrows fade away
And this feeling has grown old
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 human even if we don’t think alike
Let’s not treat or harm each other like animals
This is my way of saying it
My people cry and I feel their voice
Your five nine, I double two
Sixty years trapped in dominoes
Drums and cymbals at the five hundred of Havana
While at home they no longer have food in the pots
What are we celebrating if people are in a hurry
Exchanging Che Guevara and Martí for cash
Everything has changed, it’s not the same
Between you and me there is an abyss
Advertising a paradise in Varadero
While mothers cry for their children who have left
It’s over, your five nine, I double two
It’s finished, sixty years trapped in dominoes, look
It’s over, your five nine, I double two
It’s done, sixty years playing dominoes
We are artists, we are sensitivity
The true history, not the poorly told one
We are the dignity of an entire people trampled
By bullets and words that still mean nothing
No more lies, my people demand freedom, no more doctrines
Let’s no longer shout Homeland and Death, but Homeland and Life
And start building what we dreamed of, what was destroyed by their hands
That blood should not continue to flow for wanting to think differently
Who told you that Cuba belongs to you when my Cuba belongs to all my people
It’s over, your time has expired, the silence has been broken
It’s done, the laughter and tears are running
It’s over, and we are not afraid, the deception is over
It’s done, it’s sixty-two causing harm
There we live with the uncertainty of the past, rooted
Fifteen friends ready, prepared to die
We raise the flag still facing the regime's repression daily
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, established
We are still in the same place, security putting pressure
These things outrage me, the riddle is over
Of that your malignant revolution, I am Funky style here’s my signature
You all are overstepping, there’s no room left, you are fading away
The people are tired of enduring, we are waiting for a new dawn
It's over, your five nine, I double two
It's finished, sixty years trapped in dominoes, look
It's over, your five nine, I double two
It's done, sixty years playing dominoes
PATRIOTISM AND LIFE
PATRIOTISM AND LIFE
PATRIOTISM AND LIFE
PATRIOTISM AND LIFE
(SIXTY YEARS TRAPPED IN DOMINOES)
PATRIOTISM AND LIFE
PATRIOTISM AND LIFE
PATRIOTISM AND LIFE
PATRIOTISM AND LIFE
