Donde Empieza (part. Subverso)

Don't talk to me about violence like I don't know it
Like its existence is some new experience
Like it's just a temporary situation right now
And I don't know how it operates throughout history

We live in a model that's more violent
Than any direct protest, uprising, or people's demonstration
We can see it, live it, and feel it
Violent is the damn minimum wage, petty and disgraceful

Authorities condemn one type of violence
The one that threatens the system of big corporations
Against their property, their laws, and their police
And silences the immense violence of everyday life

The constant raids with war weapons
Against the Mapuche people still resisting for their land
The rubber bullets, punks, and threats that kids suffer
When there are invasions in their own homes

Violent is the sale of your rights and in fact
It's a robbery the charges for education, health, and housing
Violent is the corporate appropriation of all the forests
The seas and the habitat they're going to devastate

But that doesn't make the news
That spins messages efficiently to crush resistance
And their state is the organized violence of the upper class
Against those who work for almost nothing

And where does violence begin?
It starts from the moment we're born in these ghettos of powerlessness
In the lack of every opportunity
The real violence is the city of opulence

And where does violence begin?
The awakening of consciousness only brings one consequence
I cover my face, you cover reality
The real violence is capital and its essence

There's nothing more hypocritical than talking about violence
If it doesn't knock on your door, or wake you up at night
Come sleep here in the ghetto and tell me if there's a facet
Of this concrete reality that I don't understand

Violence is the indifference towards people
Or the flat way the rich treat the poor
It's the barriers they invent to discriminate against you
It's walls built to stop immigrants

Tell me who's responsible for these atrocities
Crimes against humanity, military prisons
Over there in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Libya
Palestinian children are killed almost every day

When the empire identifies its enemy
The media owners justify even genocide
And those who bomb schools and factories
After human rights want to lecture us

We don't buy it when they give that argument
That demonizes those fighting to be so violent
If in a single session in parliament they annihilate more lives
Than all our homemade weapons combined

But if we powerfully demand something
They call us criminals and tell us to fuck off
(Am I violent?) Your fucking cash is violent
Which brings suffering and death to working people

And where does violence begin?
It starts from the moment we're born in these ghettos of powerlessness
In the lack of every opportunity
The real violence is the city of opulence

And where does violence begin?
The awakening of consciousness only brings one consequence
I cover my face, you cover reality
The real violence is capital and its essence

When will violence end?
Only when social inequality ends
When poverty ends, bad education
Health like shit

When it's worth it to look for a job
Instead of trafficking or saving yourself by stealing on the corners
When we live in neighborhoods designed for human beings
When public transport doesn't treat us like cattle

When there's no need to watch your back on the streets
When our kids eat well and grow up healthy
That's when violence will end

I swear to you, my brother, my sister
And until then, there will only be war