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La Memoria - The Memory - Leon Gieco English Cover

This is an English version of "La Memoria" by León Gieco. Much of the lyrics are based on Gieco's original, but I have "Canadianized" a lot of it, as some of what he is singing about would not translate well for a North American audience. The Memory (words & music: León Gieco; translation: Paula E. Kirman) The elderly think of the past The illusions through the years lost Promises that slipped away Wars and counting all the lives cost All of this kept in the memory Dreams of life and history Deceitful, complicit in crimes Of genocides, all those who fell The monsters at blame for it all Committed forever to hell All of this kept in the memory Dreams of life and history The memories are wide awake Even to those who are sleeping All the hurt slips away Free like the wind The disappeared in Argentina Where children search for their names Hunger and longing together An evil legacy of shame All of this nailed to the memory Puncturing life and history As the troops use billions of dollars Needed by schools, arts, and health Were told theyre fighting for freedom Not oil, gold, riches, or wealth All of this nailed to the memory Puncturing life and history The memorys pierced till it bleeds Into rivers through cities Between shorelines and reeds Free like the wind Prejudice survives generations Synagogues painted with hate Stealing land from First Nations Justice observes but is late All of this hides in the memory A refuge of life and history Declared a security threat With no charge or trial detained Human rights are left behind In prisons with torture and chains All of this hides in the memory A refuge of life and history The memory bursts till it spreads In the places its banished Where they do not let it live Free like the wind Poisoning our own water Selling our own sovereignty All for some dirty oil Needed by the military All of this loaded in the memory Arming the life and history America whom we follow Propping up puppet regimes Making casualties of civilians Losing our souls in their screams All of this loaded in the memory Arming the life and history The memory aims for the kill In the cities that keep it From taking flight, against its will Free like the wind Free like the wind