• Ana Tijoux

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1977

1970, 1970
1970, 1970
 
I was born one day in June
In the year '77
Planet Mercury
And the year of the snake
Without "O" obviously
Tattooed on my forehead
That in my mother's belly
Marked the next step
It makes me cry
With no anesthesia in the stretcher
My father only said, "It's Ana Maria"
If it would be the first cry
That I would try
Burning the wounds
And giving me the drum
It tended to be, then, like an open book
But I read the small print of the text
Like an architect
Constructing each effect
Correct, incorrect, I know to learn all about that
Knowing that some people
Want the damage
Going up the step
It takes time, it takes a year
With my stuffed animal, watching the everyday
Drawings transformed
And the winter in great summer
Dad gave me, under my insisting,
A game, I tried to blame you and [recibencia]*
But in the [cartu]* they made the competition
And that was when I felt my first impotence
 
1970 shh
1970 shh
1970 shh
1977
Don't tell me no
Because one gets by without
All that changes will make it different
In the year when the snake was born
Shh
 
My adolescence
Was a bizarre phase
The body is a drum
And the head a guitar
The orchestra [narronato]*
Nothing broken for the glance
Of a girl who only carves swords
Hormone quickly
Overpopulated with no forms
In which seasons change
You walk at a crossroads
Of which each is your dwelling
I prepared the bait
The sacred Diablada dance
Of an angry glance
My line, the truth
I never seek its seat
My search was mere
Process of pure battery
Pupil of poet
That marked our saliva
In the mountain range that watched the journey
The military parade of monotonous pace
Polychrome colors
Uniforms of little hue
I detonate my questioning
The voice did sound, right?
My first rhyme that I sound
And I roll myself up
My search was not for my stage thing
It was something necessary
That already marked my error
So all
More than the necessary
Was when I understood
That everyone wants to be a pirate
 
1970 shh
1970 shh
1970 shh
1977
Don't tell me no
Because one gets by without
All that changes will make it different
In the year when the snake was born
Shh
 
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1977

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