What is it about the U.S.
that makes me want to leave so bad?
What about back home
is so suffocating?
What about back home grows so heavy and thick
that we barely feel as if we can do anything we want?
What about back home
has brought us to the brink of giving up and giving in?
Of saying, "fuck it! maybe I can't do it. Maybe, I'm not capable."
"Maybe I'm not who I thought I was."
Eventually, we lose who we are
and become someone who used to be.
Now, they're just going along getting beat up by this shit life
most of us have been beaten into.
We're told, "No."
We're told that our dreams are stupid.
We're told that we're too lazy.
We're told that, "It's not American enough."
We're told, "It won't sell,"
and that "people don't care, so why should you?"
We're told that they see potential in us,
but we're never taught to believe in our own capabilities.
Then, we become disappointments.
We slowly get to a point where we finally give up,
and then we begin to fall.
We begin to die.
We stop believing in ourselves and eventually become strangers to ourselves.
How can you love someone you don't know?
Then, indifference.
Then, when it's too late to learn to love yourself
and believe in yourself,
you realize what happened
and you begin to hate.
Then, you're truly gone.
So, let me ask you something.
"¿Te la crees hoy, puto?"