Identidad

Because there was only one machete,
because there was only one song,
because it was from the same source
the voice that saw us come together.

Because I too am black
and because I am a runaway slave
before being this town
with a single heart.

I come to share the rain from your house,
I come to blend into the fire of your love,

I come to continue with our race's blood,
with a vein, with a river, with a sun.

If the one who kills you kills me,
if the one who hits you hits me,
the one who robs you takes away
from my shame unity.

That's why I don't feel strange
singing you a song,
light of four hundred years,
voice of the same explosion.
I come to share the rain from your house,
I come to blend into the fire of your love,

I come to continue with our race's blood,
with a vein, with a river, with a sun.