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I was born in PuertoRico,
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we came here when I was a child,
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before I reached the age of 16
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I was runnin' with the gang and we were wild
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He keeps looking but he don´t recognize me,
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some guy from Lexington or Park
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Red beans and rice from kitchen window,
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it's supper time and the Barrio is dark
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No one knows you like I do,
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nobody can know your heart the way I do
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No one can testify to all that you´ve been through, but I will
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I was born in Puerto Rico, and my blood is Taino,
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Spanish Carribean my soul
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We came here wearing summer clothes in winter,
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hearts of sunshine in the cold
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Your family rented this apartment,
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you'd watch the streetlamps from your perch
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In the sacramental hour your stepfather in black
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preached the fire of the Pentecostal church
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No one knows you like I do,
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nobody can know your heart the way I do
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No one can testify to all that you've
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been through but this will
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I was born in Puerto Rico,
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came here when I was a child
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Small change and sunlight,
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and I left these streets for good,
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my days as short as they were wild
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I'm Carlos Apache, Angel Soto,
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Frenchy Cordero, Babu Charlie Cruz
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Your features blurred in ev'ry grainy photo,
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and fading headlines of the Daily News
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Wyltwyck school for crimonal children,
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Auburn, Brooklyn House of D.,
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Dannemora, Sing-Sing, Attica,
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Greenhaven, 20 years inside, today you're free
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You cannot even read your story,
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the pages piling up in shame,
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before the words released you
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The guard would kill the light,
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the night you took
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The Capeman for your name
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I was born in Puerto Rico (8x)
