Estruendo
El ritmo de mi corazon
Follows the beat of the music that hums in the town
La musica of regeton and salsa
Flows through the wind as my body is compelled to listen
Merchants selling fresh produce
El tortillero on his bikes chimes his bell through the neighborhood
Kids playing futbol, wanting to be el next Pele
El ritmo de mi corazon esta aqui
An eerie silence rips thriugh the air
Ss fear consumes all rythme
All joy
All noise
La mara, La mara
I hear throughout the streets
The gang comes and strikes at my people
They are ruthless and merciless
La mara mata
I see as they burst through doors and take a girl from a family
How they went through houses killing people
I hear how a single bullet can fly overhead and inflict the same pain as a funeral
They entered my house and grabbed mi mama
Mi alma
I could only watch as she defended her house
And then they beat her before dragging her outside to the streets
And then they shot her
Mi alma, mi ritmo se fue
She told me to run so I can be safe
But no where is home without her
They took everything
When some of us made nothing
They treated us like animales
Como perrors cayejeros
So i left to find refugee
A cruel dessert lay overhead
But I could her on the other side of the frontera
El ritmo comenco a sonar
Encontarer mi ritmo
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