Lyrics:

Oh, I just wanna go to work
And get back home, and be something
I just wanna fall and lie
And do my time, and be something
Well, I just wanna prove my worth
On the planet Earth, and be something
I just wanna fall in love
Not fuck it up, and feel something

Well, lately, don't understand what I am
Treated as a fool
Not quite a woman or a man
Well, I don't know
I guess I don't understand the plan

Colonized and hypnotized, be something
Sterilized, dehumanized, be something
Well, take your pay
And stay out the way, be something
Ah, do your best
But fuck the rest, be something

Well, lately, it's been mighty hard to see
Just searching for my lost humanity
I look for you, my friend
But do you look for me?

Lately, I'm not too afraid to die
I want to leave it all behind
I think about it sometimes
Lately, all my time's been moving slow
I don't know where I'm gonna go
Just give me time, I'll know

Oh, any day now
Oh, any day now
I will come along
Oh, any day now
Oh, any day now
I will come along
I will come along

[...and bullet-proof rice and beans
All died dreaming, hating and waiting
Dead Puerto Ricans
Who never knew they were Puerto Ricans
Who never took a coffee break
From the Ten Commandments
To kill, kill, kill
The landlords of their cracked skulls
And communicate with their Latin souls
Juan
Miguel
Milagros
Olga
Manuel
From the nervous breakdown streets
where the mice live like millionaires
and the people do not live at all]

From el barrio to Arecibo, ¡Pa'lante!
From Marble Hill to the ghost of Emmett Till, ¡Pa'lante!
To Juan, Miguel, Milagros, Manuel, ¡Pa'lante!
To all who came before, we say, ¡Pa'lante!
To my mother and my father, I say, ¡Pa'lante!
To Julia, and Sylvia, ¡Pa'lante!
To all who had to hide, I say, ¡Pa'lante!
To all who lost their pride, I say, ¡Pa'lante!
To all who had to survive, I say, ¡Pa'lante!
To my brothers, and my sisters, I say, ¡Pa'lante!
¡Pa'lante!
¡Pa'lante!
To all came before, we say, ¡Pa'lante!