Don Omar "La recompensa" lyrics

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La recompensa

La recompenza es bastaY la vida una solaVivir hora tras horaPara morir y ser yoLa recompenza bastaY la vida una solaVivir hora tras horaPara morir y ser yo(Eliel!)

Aveces uno se pregunta si la vida es justaPorque mi vieja se tuvo que morir de cancerY no estar aqui conmigo viendome triunfarPorque mataron a Georgie, a Charlie, a TonyA Carmelo y a su primo MichaelPorque los mataron y los dejaron irreconociblesY los tuvimos que enterrarY llorarlosY hasta olvidarlosAveces uno se pregunta si la vida vale la pena, socioPorque la vida en el caserioNo es igual a la vida en una urbanizacion cerradaPorque Victor Fajardo se robo el dineroQue era pa' que nuestros chamaquitos estudiaranY salieran del barrio con un diplomaEn vez de un tiroPorque a Pedro Rosello jamas lo pudieron vincular con el palo del puebloPorque hay falsos profetas alfrente de una iglesiaY hasta les permiten tener programas de televisionPorque sigue la guerra en el caserioY las AK-47, como lobos de una fucking noche interminablePorque, señora gobernadora, el gobierno nos roba la feY mata nuestras esperanzasPorque hay que seguir viviendo encontrando tantas dificultadosPorque los domingos en mi barrio no son los mismos que en TorrimarPorque Norberto Nieves pudo salir a la graduacion de su hijoCuando a miles de preso no se les permitePorque Buzo esta cumpliendo en su casaY a nuestro hermanito Tempo lo tienen cumpliendo en la FederalPorque hay guerra entre Estados Unidos y el Medio OrientePorque hay que seguir viendo mas odio, mas ira, mas ratingsMas carceles, mas masacres, mas sueños rotos, mas lagrimasMas historias de superacion, de fabricacion de cargosPorque vivir, mi hermano?Sientate, que te voy a decirVivimos, porque la recompenza es estar vivo, papi

Me aferre de la verdadY adopte la realidadPor que vivir no es por vivirSi no vivir pa' superarY me aferre de la verdadY adopte la realidadPor que vivir no es por vivirSi no vivir pa' superar

The Reward

The reward is enoughTo live hour to hour, andTo die your own man

The reward is enoughTo live hour to hour, andTo die your own man

Sometimes you ask if life is fairWhen the cancer takes your old ladyAnd she's not there to see your successes

And they kill Georgie, and Charlie, and Tony,And Carmelo, and his cousin MichaelAnd leave them dead, unrecognizableAnd you have to bury themAnd you have to cry for themUntil you can forget them

Sometimes you ask, buddy, if life is worth itWhen life in the open fields of a rural homeIs so different from within the city's walls

Because commissioner Victor Fajardo stoleThe money meant for the little kids' educationSo they could finally leave the barrioWith a diploma instead of a bullet

Because governor Pedro RosselloWho tried to sell us out, could never be linkedTo any leader of the community

Because there are false prophets leading the churchAnd they're even allowed to put their lies on TV

Because war reaches even into the rural homesAnd the growl of the AK-47 is heard like a wolfThrough the jodida* never-ending night

Because, Madame Governor, your governmentRobs our faith and murders our hopes.

Because the people must keep on livingFacing such problems

Because Sundays in the barrio are so differentFrom the ones in Torrimar's million-dollar homes

Because the drunk driver senator Norberto NievesCould go see his own son's graduationWhile thousands of prisoners are not allowed to.

Because Buzo gets house arrest while our little brotherTempo rots in a federal prison

Because the US makes pointless wars in the Middle East

Because we must keep seeingMore hate & anger, for better ratingsMore prisons & massacresMore broken dreams & tearsMore stories of repression &Trumped-up charges

Why are we living, my brother?Sit down, and I'll tell youWe live, because the reward is to be alive,

I stood by the truthI held on to realityBecause living isn't livingUnless you're living to overcome

I stood by the truthI held on to realityBecause living isn't livingUnless you're living to overcome

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