I, I was never very young
I walk like a stranger through this world
No, no, you don't know me
Although I'm with you I'm so far away

But it wasn't the heat that
Threw the night into turmoil
Put the city in darkness and soldiers on the street
But the car burning up on the roadside

For all those in exile
Waiting to be released in city surrounded by slums
Invaded by soldiers, invaded by debt
Under dictator who escalates terror

Provoking further intensive civil unrest
And in the fear of the nights' disappearances
A conspiracy of silence spread up around us
Like a wall

Between commemoration candles and the twelve o'clock curfew
You started to feel less until you couldn't feel at all
Stood on the wrong side of the barricades in the national strike
Then became exile, remember

Soldiers shooting into the crowd at the university
Growing up under government
Where to be young is to be the enemy, remember

Where soldiers tear gas churches
And there's ten thousand missing persons
Whose cases are never solved
And the government advises not to get involved

No te metas, someday we'll return there
From the years spent in exile to the land where we were born
From the years spent in exile
Someday we'll be free there in the land where we were born