11 / Romantic Collapse
Allpamanta
You can burn the fields but the roots remember you can salt the earth but the rain still comes you can hang your flags from every window but a flag don't make a man what he becomes They built their walls with borrowed money they bought the law and bought the priest but you can't buy the thing that wakes a man when he decides he's not your beast No me van a quebrar no me van a callar pueden quitar la luz pero no la verdad My grandfather walked this valley with his back bent to the sun he didn't kneel for any patron and his blood is what I run They took the water from the acequia they took the land they said was theirs but the dirt still knows his fingerprints and I still climb his stairs No me van a quebrar no me van a callar pueden quitar la luz pero no la verdad You can disappear the body but the name lives in the wall every kid who picks a rock up is a monument that won't fall They think silence means surrender they think hunger means we're done but a man who's lost everything has got nothing left to run from No me van a quebrar no me van a callar pueden quitar la luz pero no la verdad My mother taught me how to whisper my father taught me how to wait but nobody had to teach me how to recognize my hate It grew like corn between the concrete it drank the rain they couldn't tax and when they ask me where I found it I say I never gave it back No me van a quebrar no me van a callar pueden quitar la luz pero no la verdad So go ahead and send your trucks through go ahead and cut the line this town has buried better men than you and still hung the laundry out to dry We are the dust you couldn't sweep away we are the crack in every wall and when you listen late at night you'll hear us breathing after all No me van a quebrar no me van a callar pueden quitar la luz pero no la verdad No me van a quebrar no me van a quebrarBack to The Land of Silver and Sorrow