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Todos Somos Ilegales

by Outernational

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THE BEGINNING IS HERE / OUTERNATIONAL There comes a time, there comes a time! To get up and out, get up and out! Now that we’re here, now that we’re here! That time is now, that time is now! So you’ve been waiting I’ve been waiting too What you been waiting for? I am waiting on you Stop right there, get up and out that room We are ready and the time is coming soon Us right here, we won’t stop Your club has gotten cold, so we took it to the block They wanna box me up, box me up! Then ship me out, ship me out! Starve me cold, starve me cold! And tie me down, tie me down! They say time will tell but their tongue is tied Now why in hell would you believe their lies? So pick up the pace and face the facts If you have a question go ahead and ask If this is the last time I ever speak You better believe I did not leave I went way deep and brought the heat Occupying Wall Street Borders closed, borders closed! Border crashing, border crashing! Bored of the boardroom? Then join the action, join the action! The songs I sing, they can cast a spell I don’t know no borders and I know them well These rebels are microphones Public address letters home I’m on the hunt, out on the front A real revolution is what I want This is our first hit, gotham city communists For every slum, every township There is a hope for the hopeless
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I see kids fighting to find a voice They've been swimming in a sea Without a shore or a choice Sometimes it's like I'm without a home Last night I walked A thousand miles alone I walked and wandered Paused and pondered In these times I can't live like this any longer Your well is running dry As the oceans rise If I'm right we got one shot tonight This is a fighting song I can't waste many moments Can't lose any more days I've read the history We need more than a page Each year in this life Is like a blink of an eye Tonight I tell you It is fighting time This is a fighting song! All of our people All across the world They want something more Look down at our planet From the heavens above See it as it is See it as it is No borders or banks No wars or tanks No nations, no nations I've got my dreams when I sleep And I've got these dreams that really could be This is a fighting song! Go!
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WE ARE ALL ILLEGALS MILES SOLAY I dream of fire but I sleep so cold I raise the red flag on The Alamo I want to show you how our lives unfold Deep inside underneath it all When you eat that salad and put on your shoes Stare at that screen we’re looking out at you The people who created, modern-day enslavement “The greatest country!” Its a nation of sadists! The babies who are buried before they can run The children whose mothers have never known fun The daughters whose bodies are sold for crumbs Risk life and limb, its a planet of slums CHORUS Todos somos ilegales, todos somos ilegales The defiant ones, our time has come Todos somos ilegales Fighting for a new way and a new day Todos somos ilegales MILES SOLAY I walk the desert in the dead of night I crawl through sewers, no clean water in sight I cross the river to the other side The American land of parasites I’m that secret, that dirty little feature The bones in the closet, lies told by teachers The food, the clothes, the land, the phones The buildings where your computers grow See, that border ain’t sacred or chosen The land we stand on, every inch of it stolen How obscene that there’s people illegal Vilified survival, the journey is lethal CHORUS Todos somos ilegales, todos somos ilegales The defiant ones, our time has come Todos somos ilegales Fighting for a new way and a new day Todos somos ilegales RESIDENTE CALLE 13 No necesito documentos Mirame a los ojos Para que leas mi acento Prohibido como la droga Ilegal como un nazi En una sinagoga Contra indicado Clandestino Lo identificable Lo contamino Más de siesciento millones de persona Gritando luz verde Pa invadir Arizona No necesito diplomas Lo que aprendi Lo vivi y lo almaceno en mis neuronas Las experiencias Son mis talleres La vida es un estudio Desde que se nace Hasta que se muere Asi cruce pal’ norte Buscando buena vida Componente vacio De materia consumida Dejé a mi abuela Sola pa’ besarle el culo a Ronald McDonald y tomar coca cola CHORUS Todos somos ilegales, todos somos ilegales The defiant ones, our time has come Todos somos ilegales Fighting for a new way and a new day Todos somos ilegales We are all illegal, we are illegal
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CANTA EL RIO lyrics by CECI BASTIDA Que me hace falta aire, No puedo respirar más, No logro descifrarlo Que no puedo ya distinguir. Ya no, ya no lo siento Se no voy a volverte a ver Ya no oigo más tu voz Perdido y lejos voy de ti. Río río amor Frio frio amor Río río amor Frio frio amor Por qué no puedo entrar Sólo intento ayudar. Todo es así Y parece nada cambió. O no, no se si valió la pena o no No se si valió la pena o no No se si hice bien La vida lo mostró Todo en mi dentro cambió Ya nadie sabe en dónde estoy. Que me hace falta aire, No puedo respirar más, No logro descifrarlo Que no puedo ya distinguir. Ya no, ya no lo siento Se no voy a volverte a ver Ya no oigo más tu voz Perdido y lejos voy de ti. Río río amor Frio frio amor Río río amor Frio frio amor Quisiera regresar, Quisiera ya volver, Voltear a… Y volver a caminar. Que me hace falta aire, No puedo respirar más, No logro descifrarlo Que no puedo ya distinguir. Ya no, ya no lo siento Se no voy a volverte a ver Ya no oigo más tu voz Perdido y lejos voy de ti. Perdido y lejos voy de ti… Perdido y lejos voy de ti… Río río amor Frio frio amor Río río amor Frio frio amor
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FIRST AMONG EQUALS / OUTERNATIONAL There’s blood on the streets And blood on your hands The same blood thats in my veins As the blood on the sand If these words draw blood The emperor is nude His willing subjects naked In their red, white and blue You’re the first among equals You’re one of a kind The first among equals Are the worst of all time The crimes unseen and the crimes uncovered Tens of millions of children All their fathers and mothers There is no limit to the crimes you’ve done Your days are numbered, you are second to none You’re the first among equals You’re one of a kind The first among equals Are the worst of all time You’re the first among equals You’re one of a kind The first among equals Are the worst of all time You stop me, you frisk me Want to sign me up and enlist me Package me up to double me down Lock me up where there isn’t a sound How many slaves and how many dead? How everything’s made, how your country is fed I said what I said, I meant what I wrote You’ll put a gun to my head and a knife in my throat I hear the last gasp of a dying empire I smell the smoke afar from the funeral pyres You’re the first among equals You’re one of a kind The first among equals Are the worst of all time
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DEPORTEES (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) Lyrics by Woody Guthrie Solay: The crops are all in and the peaches are rotting The oranges are piled in their creosote dumps Morello: They're flying you back to the Mexico border To pay all your money and wade back again CHORUS Good-bye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita Adios a mis amigos, Jesus y Maria You won't have a name when you ride the big airplanes All they will call you will be… Deportees Solay: My father's own father, he waded that river They took all the money he made in his life My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees They rode the big trucks till they laid down and died Morello: Some of us are illegal and some are not wanted When contract is out we've got to move on It's six hundred Solay to the Mexican border They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like theives CHORUS Good-bye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita Adios a mis amigos, Jesus y Maria You won't have a name when you ride the big airplanes All they will call you will be… Deportees Solay: An airplane caught fire over Los Gatos canyon Morello: Like a fireball of lightning, it shook all our hills Who are all these friends all scattered like dry leaves? Solay: The radio says they are just deportees We died in your valleys and died in your deserts We died in your hills and we died on your plains Morello: We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes Both sides of the river, we died just the same CHORUS Good-bye to my Juan, good-bye Rosalita Adios a mis amigos, Jesus y Maria You won't have a name when you ride the big airplanes All they will call you will be… Deportees Morello: Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards? Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit? Solay: To fall like the dry leaves to rot on the topsoil And be called by no name except Morello: Deportees
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LADIES OF THE NIGHT / OUTERNATIONAL One way or another I’m going to find you I’m trying to Beneath the surface Where the well is deep and wide Maybe they gather under moonlit skies I know I’ve seen them on the other side In that place where no one goes The bottom of the desert, where the scorpions roam Where did they go, are they still alive? Have they been burnt by the fire outside? Everybody’s been looking, wondering who took them You can’t find your ladies of the night Free women walking side by side There’s a revival tonight These women and their little girls Messengers of a whole new world The darkness needs a harlot A Mata Hari market, but The sisters untethered Shackles busted in the fight Heads held high in the Southwestern sky Spirit strong in flight, what was wrong is made right They were never ladies of the night Free women walking side by side There’s a revival tonight These women and their little girls Messengers of a whole new world Free women walking side by side There’s a revival tonight These women and their little girls Messengers of a whole new world
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BURIED AND DONE / OUTERNATIONAL One day on one road One woman walked her one son home He stood too tall, too strong, too bold, too bald She couldn’t have him walk alone Taught him, “never be the one to cast the first stone!” Don’t you know what lies ahead, around the bend! Whoa-oh-oh-oh I don’t really want to see the sun rise (GO!) I don’t really want to go another night (STOP!) Before this is gone, buried and done (FREEZE! COPS!) Not another night, not another night Oh, not ‘til that day has come my love And we will be so far, far away Dreams of an old life fading in the moonlight I don’t need a priest telling me its alright Here’s a little-known fact, we’re living under attack Day and night, day and night You know its a crime what they do with our lives Shoot us down, eat us up, spit us out, You know its their right! Hunted every step of the way! Whoa-oh-oh-oh I don’t really want to see the sun rise (GO!) I don’t really want to go another night (STOP!) Before this is gone, buried and done (FREEZE! COPS!) Not another night, not another night Oh, not ‘til that day has come my love And we will be so far, far away I came through the darkness, I moved in the night I followed the footsteps, I kept out of sight I stayed in the shadows just under the ledge Like a match in the wind or a dog in a pen Mom sheds a tear, every passing year I won’t back down ‘til my back’s down in the ground You know, I have no fear Whoa-oh-oh-oh I don’t really want to see the sun rise (GO!) I don’t really want to go another night (STOP!) Before this is gone, buried and done (FREEZE! COPS!) Not another night, not another night Oh, not ‘til that day has come my love And we will be so far, far away So far away So far away....
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The Disappeared / Outernational Hanging from the ceiling Hanging from the walls Like a tiger in a cage Posing on all fours This is what it feels like This is how it sounds What do you take me for? Has it been a month Has it been a year Does anyone know I’m in here Whoa, whoa, I’m disappeared Standing for days on end Only the light escapes Never saw it coming Never saw you go away This is what it feels like This is how it sounds What did you take me for? Has it been a month Has it been a year Does anyone know I’m in here Whoa, whoa, I’m disappeared I see a mirror in the wall I’ve got nothing left Except for that next brother And his dying breath This is what it feels like This is how it sounds What do you take me for? Has it been a month Has it been a year Does anyone know I’m in here Whoa, whoa, I’m disappeared
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ACROSS THE BORDERLINE Written by Ry Cooder (BMI), John Hiatt (BMI), and James Luther Dickinson (BMI), USI B Music Publishing There’s a land so I’ve been told Every street is paved with gold And it’s just across the borderline (Just across the borderline) And when it’s time to take your turn Here’s a lesson you must learn You will lose more than you’ll ever hope to find And when you reach the broken promise land Every dream slips through your hands And you’ll know it’s too late to change your mind ‘Cos you paid the price to come this far Just to wind up where you are And you’re still just across the borderline Up and down the Rio Grande A thousand footprints in the sand Reveal a secret no one can define (Just across the borderline) The river flows on like a breath In between our life and death Now tell me who will cross the borderline And when you reach the broken promise land Every dream slips through your hands And you’ll know it’s too late to change your mind ‘Cos you paid the price to come this far Just to wind up where you are And you’re still just across the borderline
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Que Queremos 05:01
Que Queremos / Outernational There's a trail of tears, a new trail of death The vigilantes and coyotes watch the sun set In the borderland with the rattlesnakes No water, no people, a dying mistake Que tenemos nada, que queremos todo el mundo Que tenemos nada, que queremos todo el mundo Que tenemos nada, que queremos todo el mundo Que tenemos nada, que queremos todo el mundo Dirty pretty things, fires in their eyes The pesticide gonna make her die Nameless, faceless, strangest slaveness Afraid of this place, its one big grave Two tonnes of tomatoes for fifty bucks Running back to the truck Lucila had enough No papers, no savings, living day to day In a plantation mayhem Que tenemos nada, que queremos todo el mundo Que tenemos nada, que queremos todo el mundo Que tenemos nada, que queremos todo el mundo Que tenemos nada, que queremos todo el mundo Look into her eyes peering out Thinking why, asking how In this barren beatdown dustbowl of a town I challenge them to do what we do: Cook, clean, make, slave, who feeds whom? Dirty pretty things who are you? The ones you don't see, the fact to your truth The ones you don't see, the ones you don’t see Que tenemos nada, que queremos todo el mundo Que tenemos nada, que queremos todo el mundo Que tenemos nada, que queremos todo el mundo Que tenemos nada, que queremos todo el mundo

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released January 1, 2012

OUTERNATIONAL MUSIC in association with
120dB FILMS, THE SOUND STRIKE and REBUENA ONDA present

TODOS SOMOS ILEGALES: WE ARE ALL ILLEGALS

OUTERNATIONAL

with Miles Solay, Jesse Williams Massa, Leo Mintek, Jesse Blum, Joe Tomino, Jessie Green, Bridget Barkan, Sonny Singh, Stewart Cole and Jared Allawos

featuring Residente Calle 13, Ceci Bastida, Uproot Andy, Tom Morello, Chad Smith and the voice of Bob Avakian

Produced by Outernational except
*3,10,18 produced by Tom Morello
*4 produced by Thom Russo
*6 produced by Thom Russo + Uproot Andy

Executive Producer: Stephen D. Hays
Mastering: Reuben Cohen, Lurrsen Mastering
Mixing: *Thom Russo (4,6,15,17)
*Jim Scott (3,18)
*Jordon Silva (2, 12, 14)
*Kevin Mills (1,5,7,8,9,11,13,16)
*Tom Syrowski (10)
Graphic Design: Kyledidthis and Brigitta Bungard

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