Por Que Cantamos

If each hour comes with its death,
If time is a den of thieves,
The air is no longer so good,
Life is nothing more than a moving target

You will ask why we sing

If our brave ones are left without embrace,
The homeland is dying of sadness,
And the heart of man shatters
Even before shame explodes

You will ask why we sing

We sing because the river is sounding
And when the river sounds, it sounds.
We sing because the cruel has no name
And instead his destiny has a name

We sing for the child and for everything
And for some future and for the people
We sing because the survivors
And our dead want us to sing

We sing because the cry is not enough
And neither is the tears nor the anger
We sing because we believe in our people
And because we will overcome defeat

We sing because it rains on the furrow
And we are militants of life
And because we do not want nor can
Let the song turn to ashes