Si yo toco
Y tú cantas
Podemos ser
Una banda de leyendas

Tienes labios rosas
Y pelo *****,
Quiero te besar
Y estar bailando.

¿Como se llama?
Creo que es "Ecuador"
Porque usted es
Muy calor

In our world, it's hard
To tell truth from the lies
When everyone just says
Whatever people will buy

When TV creates
Unreal reality
They compromise truth
For what people want to see

Honest, serious programs
Are frequently unnoticed
So reporters only show
What clickbait puts in focus

But I have hope
That this problem will be fixed
For there are still those who care
For news in a reality midst

We come into existance
Unaware that one day
It will be taken from us
As we spiral into a great unknown
(Because life decided to leave eternity a mystery)

A random thought
(Take it as you will):
I've been in every hotel
On this little hill

I guess sixteen years
Is enough time
To see every inn
I'm this road's line

Would anyone even notice
If I were gone?
If I just got up, left
And moved on?
Would anyone know
Would anyone care
If I slipped away
Into the night air

"You used to be so fearless
And now you only think
If what can go wrong.
I wish you'd become fearless again."

Don't you think
That if I could stop fearing
I would?
Do you think
That I like
Being afraid?

I fear the dark in another's eyes
As much as I fear the one of the skies
For while the skies can guise and surprise  
The danger lies with a heart rash and mind wise
The ability for lies and the want to take lives

At ease, I sink down
Into warm lime and salt waves
Forgetting the world

No matter the distance
Between you and I
We all share
The exact same sky

There are some differences
Between you and me
But our connectios as humans
Is what we all see

Sometimes the only thing
That gets me through the day
Are my eight million fantasies
About running away

I thought I could handle life
But before very long
My entire world flipped around
And I'm losing "right" and "wrong"

Should I trust my instincts
Or my family?
Should either of them
Get to decide me?

Empires rise and countries fall
But in the end, time judges is all

From lowly farms to palaces sublime
Everything changed with the passage of time

Our ideas on heroes and villans don't budge
But, in the end, time is the ultimate judge

"Nothing you could tell me would ever disappoint me."
From the things I've heard you say, I can name at least three

We must remember
That the U.S. is essentially
An experiment

Do you even see me as an equal human being?
Do you care about who I am, where I've been?
Can you hear what I've heard and see what I'm seeing?
Can you try to understand that what I say has meaning?

Thinking closely, Walt Whitman was right
For there is a peculiar delight
In streching one's limbs
Admiring the machine within
With eyes that can see the world's night

"You can tell me anything
But you already do, though."
As you laughed, I nodded along
But thought "As far as you know"

Whatever it is that you choose
The only one who can is you

Whatever that something might be
Just make sure to think it through

And no mater what the outcome is
Don't let others tell you what to do

I wish I could
Be open and free
But honestly, people want
A perfect version of me

I've been waiting years now
But it won't be too long
Before I can turn to those grade school ******
And tell them they were wrong

Boys chased me and jailed me 'neath the slide
And chipped one of my teeth
Now I can run down halls in heels
And hike twenty miles through trees

Kids ran from me like a monster for a whole year
They told me I was spoiled cheese
Later I learned that I was not so rancid
And that it's okay to be a bit of a beast

Classmates would tell me I was ugly
By rewriting lyrics of Bruno Mars
I'm not a model, but I can pull off
As many styles as the stars

I once had two boys kick me off monkey bars
They told me I was on their hit list
It was terrifying to me then
Now it's hilarious how wildly they missed

I remember that boy who taunted me
And how I flipped over his desk
Since then, I've learned of subtlety
And how not to leave a mess

I knew a girl in first grade, she sat across from me
And made sure I knew I was weird
I know I'm an oddball for a fact now
Why change the way I'm geared?

I'm still not over all of those words
From people who said "kids are mean"
"Sticks and stones will break my bones"
Now I overthink what my words mean

In the back of my mind, when I'm talking
To an acquaintance or friend
A part of me keeps popping up, asking
"Why do they like me, again?"

But at the end of all those days
It's been five years since I've been gone
Looking at the girl I am now, I'd say
I've been pretty good at moving on

As the leaves and shade surround me
I wander on, an explorer solitary
Beetle graffiti and fertile earth
Capture my attention as I explore dirt
And though I'm called back for mandatory "fun"
My mind still lingers in the shade and the sun

You know it was a fairly odd day
(As far as family Facebooking goes)
Not when there's news about  what a demagogue will say
But when you become known as the family ******

To all who tell me I'll die alone:
I honestly think I prefer that tone
It's better to pass with no one at hand
Than surrounded by those you secretly can't stand

I say no even though it's a lie
'Cause when I say yes, you don't hear the reasons why

Do you really want to know
What's tearing me up inside?
It's that when I'm with you
All I can do is hide

As long as I'm here
In this house and school
Breathing deeply feels
Like I'm drowning in a pool

All I really want
Is to get out of this place
Wether I end up nearby
Or in outer space

So please don't tell me
"Just relax and smile."
Being free to be myself
Will just have to wait a while

Adonde ser
Adonde va
Adonde ser
Juan, ojos de algodón

Unwind my body
Like a vivisection
And see if you can find
The real me

Unwind the code
Like pulling a string from cloth
And see if you can find
Humanity's reason

Why is it that I never seem
To be able to verbalize
The things I feel, the things I see
Why must that action tantalize?

I know how I feel, in every specific way
I know how I see the world fit together
But somehow I'm never able to say
How I think or feel to another

It's all so clear inside my brain
I know how I see and how I feel
But explaining it makes me feel insane
Because I don't have the words for my zeal

It's all so precise and obvious to my mind
But it's always hell to explain
Because I start speaking only to find
That my lack of clarity is near to pain

What seems so solid and crystal clear
In the space between my ears
Falls apart outside my mouth
Because my words' ambiguity drives it south

When it comes to my family and friends
I freak out when they get near my violin
But if it were a conductor or music student
Or a music professor most prudent
I'd let them throw it halfway across Washington

You foolish men
Who toy with others' lives
Act as though you're safe
From a revolutionary's knives

You may be fine
With your panem et circenses
But be warned, your actions
Do carry consequences

Now it is finally the moment I truth
As citizens enter the voting booth
In response, I'd just like to quote a comic based on this election here:
"Vote like youyou'll have to explain yourself in twenty years"

You know a day will
Be stranger than can be said
If, upon waking, you think
"Do I have a slinky on my head?"

If I only had a magical wand
I could break so many bonds
Instead of watching heroes on T.V.
I could be the one I want to be

I could multipy food again and again
I'd bring earth's hunger to an end
I could separate water from poison in it
From Africa to suburban Flint

I could make weapons vanish in a war
And make people question what they're killing for
I could build homes two minutes after a flood
And, in a drought, bring rain from above

I could do something with the prison population
I could fight memories that cause stigma in our nation
I could clean the air, take the trash from the water
Then reform it all into gifts for poorer sons and daughters

I could look into space with an enlarged telescope
I could start a wizard network of hope
Side by side, with my coven friends
We'd fight hatred and ills until our ends

But, alas, as you can clearly see
There is no magic wand with me
So I make my changes at a plodding pace
I only hope to change the world's face

I'm not deterred; I still will fight
To change the world to day from night
But in my dream, I still long
For that easy route of a magic wand

Let's pretend that I can dance tonight
Who needs friends? Who needs day's light?
I'll pretend I can whip and pirouette
Let's see how far into the night I get
One hour, two hours, three crowds and four
My vision is blurry but I'll dance some more
I wonder how that boy did his coat and his hair
I gotta get out to the garden's frigid air
Who needs the friends from schools that you know?
Who needs that cute guy when the dances get slow?
All I need is the beat that shakes the ground
And the dusk induced feeling of no one else being around
With the last song of the night
The cops push us out without a fight

I float
Like I am being recreated
I exist in the storm
And when it's abated

I rush
Uncontrollable, wild, and free
In rapids and hurricanes
That uproot the strongest trees

I flow
Slow and calm through the marsh
Among mist, birds, and hunters
Both gentle and harsh

I pour
In drissles and sheets from above
Watering the olive tree
And sending away the dove

Water flow throughout me
Down into the earth
Wash away my past life
Awake me in rebirth

Water flow around me
Paint your 3D tapestry
Those otherworldly earthy scenes
Of the rivers, lakes, and seas

Water flow down on me
From upon those clouds so high
Drizzle, drip, and thunder down
From the endless sky

Water flow throughout me
As you move about the world
Moving both slowly and quickly
In motions both meek and bold