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lyrics

1st: English
2do: Español

Capital of smiles
The deficiency creates the bridge of sighs
The walls of words
petrify the wishes and the fists
We don't have much smiles
and our scars strangle the fire
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Our voice shanks (them)
their palace crumbles when touched
The abundance in their lives
is hidden by a finger in the scale
Drowning us in disdain
they hide the arks full of capital

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Capital de sonrisas
La insuficiencia forma el puente de suspiros
Las paredes de palabras petrifican los deseos y los puños
Tenemos pocas sonrisas
y las cicatrices ahorcan el fuego
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Nuestra voz les apuñala
Su palacio se desmorona al tocarlo
La abundancia en sus vidas
La esconden con un dedo en la balanza
Sumergiéndonos en desprecio
Nos esconden las arcas llenas de capital

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Spoken word:

It is exhausting to live as a second class citizen and then see other people go through the worst case scenario of second class citizenship. Then conversations lead me to share my own stories and people's reaction is to question the veracity of what I share because they think I'm not being objective.

I can share more and more thoughts but it feels useless. I lose. They win. I get it. Our experiences have no value when looked from their point of view. They are romans. We are barbarians. But, no matter what, whether they accept this complex reality now, or later, or never, the dissonance between racism deniers and the reality of people of color is deafening to us people of color and the white people who recognize what is going on. The footage is out there, the data is out there, and facts are facts.

I once thought that maybe, when I'm 80 years old, I would see a somewhat fair world with much less prejudice. Bannon/Breitbart, Sessions, and the Trumps have dispelled such fantasies.

I can reach 100 years old and I will still be a second class citizen.

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from This Is For Everyone With An Accent, released March 10, 2018
All of the music was written, performed, programmed, and mixed by César Dávila-Irizarry

Mastering by Miguel Bustamante for Lucesca Productions

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César Dávila-Irizarry Los Angeles, California

Award-winning composer who is mostly known for the theme songs of Netflix's Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel and FX's American Horror Story.

Critics describe César as a "mad genius" (Empire Online). His blend of sound design and music is said to "speak to us on an unconscious level" (Huffington Post).

Photo by IG: @JorgeLunaPhotography
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