The Demagogue - Lila Downs

At the edge of the world

Where the factories are

There’s a burning of hatred

That’s crossing the lines

There’s a blue eyed devil man

Thinks he’s king of the world

He’s a bully, a salesman

Selling fear and hate

Who do you think you are?

He plays us with his hate

Turns man against man

But it’s really not a game

And I pray to the ancestors' love

Do not be fooled by this man’s foolish talk

The serpent woke again

In different times and places

There’s a burning cross

Leading the mob

People in chains

He’s a Quak circus act creeping from the past

He’s the symbol of the monster we no longer want to be

(what we used to be…)

The earth trembles with these names

Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Pinochet

No respect for woman, no respect for race

No respect for anything that lives, the human race

But he cannot buy our soul

(CORO:)

NO A ESE MURO

Voy cortando el odio

Voy sembrando amor

NO A ESE MURO

De la explotación

Pero es mi casa

NO A ESE MURO

La luz de la mañana

El lugar de mis ancestros

Las flores del desierto

NO A ESE MURO

Gonna show that my love

Is much stronger than hate

I’m gonna call to the four winds

I’m gonna change my fate

I’m gonna rise up singing

I’m gonna stand for this place

It’s a long time, Mi Gente

There’s no turning back

There’s no turning back

There’s no turning back