Born in Puerto Rico

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I was born in PuertoRico,

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we came here when I was a child,

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before I reached the age of 16

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I was runnin' with the gang and we were wild

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He keeps looking but he don´t recognize me,

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some guy from Lexington or Park

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Red beans and rice from kitchen window,

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it's supper time and the Barrio is dark

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No one knows you like I do,

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nobody can know your heart the way I do

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No one can testify to all that you´ve been through, but I will

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I was born in Puerto Rico, and my blood is Taino,

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Spanish Carribean my soul

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We came here wearing summer clothes in winter,

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hearts of sunshine in the cold

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Your family rented this apartment,

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you'd watch the streetlamps from your perch

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In the sacramental hour your stepfather in black

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preached the fire of the Pentecostal church

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No one knows you like I do,

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nobody can know your heart the way I do

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No one can testify to all that you've

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been through but this will

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I was born in Puerto Rico,

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came here when I was a child

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Small change and sunlight,

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and I left these streets for good,

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my days as short as they were wild

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I'm Carlos Apache, Angel Soto,

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Frenchy Cordero, Babu Charlie Cruz

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Your features blurred in ev'ry grainy photo,

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and fading headlines of the Daily News

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Wyltwyck school for crimonal children,

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Auburn, Brooklyn House of D.,

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Dannemora, Sing-Sing, Attica,

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Greenhaven, 20 years inside, today you're free

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You cannot even read your story,

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the pages piling up in shame,

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before the words released you

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The guard would kill the light,

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the night you took

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The Capeman for your name

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I was born in Puerto Rico (8x)