Resilience

We were born to bare with what the body holds
we endured what came and we'll endure what’s to come
we endure even if we have our seconds counted
Our body holds up to fifteen minutes hanged
Endured lashes, the cut of our both arms
fractures in any bone, three weeks with a plaster

we endure all the time the need to go to the bathroom
to see halley's comet we endure seventy years
We put up with school, the faculty, the institute
At dinner time, we hold back burps
The people of Burundi is still enduring famine
We endured three days to reach the moon

we endure the cold arctic, the hot tropic
We put up with our antibodies the microscopic viruses
we endure storms, hurricanes, bad weather
we endured Nagasaki, we endured Hiroshima
even if we don’t want to, we endure new laws
we endure now that today kings still exists
we punish the humble and endure the cruel
we endured being slaves because the color of our skin
we endure capitalism, communism, socialism, feudalism
we endured even stupidity
We endure the culprit when he's pretending to be innocent
We endure each year our f***ing President

For what was and could’ve been
for what we have and what could be missing
for what’s to come and for right now
a toast to resilience!

For what was and could’ve been
for what we have and what could be missing
for what’s to come and for right now
rise your glass and toast for resilience
a toast for resilience!

We endure any pain even if it hurts
We endured Pinochet, we endured Videla
Frank, Mao, Rios Montt, Mugabe
Hitler, Idi Amin, Stalin, Bush, Truman, Ariel Sharon and hussein
We endure more than twenty concentration camps
When you swim underwater, you hold your breath
to build a wall we hold the bricks
The nonsmoker endures the smell of smoke
We endure that Monsanto infects our food
We endure Agent Orange and pesticides

When we sail we endure seasickness
We endure minimum wage and the unemployment
We endured Falkland and the British invasion
in the city of Pompeii we endured volcanic lava
and within the logic In our humanity,
we believe the lie and no one bares the truth

For what was and could’ve been
for what we have and what could be missing
for what’s to come and for right now
rise your glass and toast for resilience
a toast for resilience!

We endure the atheist, the Mormon, the Christian
the Buddhist, the Jew
We endure the pagan,
We endured those who sells the bullets
and the one that shoots them
We endured the death of Lennon, of Victor Jara
We endured many wars, Vietnam, the Cold War
The war of the Hundred Years War, the War of the Six Days

They have to endure the rematch, we come for retaliation
Today our liver will endure what the bar invites

For what was and could’ve been
for what we have and what could be missing
for what’s to come and for right now
a toast to resilience!

For what was and could’ve been
for what we have and what could be missing
for what’s to come and for right now
rise your glass and toast for resilience
a toast for resilience!