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"Born In Puerto Rico (454) Lyrics"
Man in the Box Lyrics
I'm the man in the box buried in my shit won't you come and save me save me Feed my eyes can you sew them shut? Jesus Christ, deny your maker he who tries will be wasted feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut I'm the dog who gets beat shove my nose in shit won't you come and save me save me Feed my eyes can you sew them shut? Jesus Christ deny your maker he who trie
I'm the man in the box buried in my shit won't you come and save me save me Feed my eyes can you sew them shut? Jesus Christ, deny your maker he who tries will be wasted feed my eyes now you've sewn them shut I'm the dog who gets beat shove my nose in shit won't you come and save me save me Feed my eyes can you sew them shut? Jesus Christ deny your maker he who trie
SALVADOR
I was born in Puerto Rico
We came here when I was a child
Before I reached the age of sixteen
I was running with the gang and we were wild
He keeps looking but he don't recognize me.
Some guy from Lexington or Park
Red beans and rice from kitchen windows
Supper-time and the barrio is dark.
No one knows you like I do
Nobody can know your heart the way I do
No one can testify to all that you've been
through
But I will.
SAL & THE VAMPIRES
I was born in Puerto Rico
And my blood is Taino
Spanish Caribbean my soul
SALVADOR
We came here wearing summer clothes in
winter
Hearts of sunshine in the cold
Your family rented this apartment
Perfect Sence Part II Lyrics
In the sacramental hour your stepfather in
black
Preached the fire of the Pentecostal Church
No one knows you like I do
Nobody can know your heart the way I do
No one can testify to all that you've been
through
But this will.
SAL & THE VAMPIRES
I was born in Puerto Rico
Came here when I was a child.
SALVADOR
Small change and sunlight, then I left these
streets for good.
My days as short as they were wild.
CARLOS APACHE
I'm Carlos Apache
ANGEL SOTO
Angel Soto
FRENCHY CORDERO
Frenchy Cordero
BABU CHARLIE CRUZ
Babu Charlie Cruz
Gentle On My Mind Lyrics
It's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up And stashed behind your couch And it's knowing I'm not shacked by forgotten words and bons And the ink stains that have dried upon some line That keeps you on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry Keeps you ever gentle on my mind It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on their columns
ALVADORIt's knowing that your door is always open and your path is free to walk That makes me tend to leave my sleeping bag rolled up And stashed behind your couch And it's knowing I'm not shacked by forgotten words and bons And the ink stains that have dried upon some line That keeps you on the back roads by the rivers of my mem'ry Keeps you ever gentle on my mind It's not clinging to the rocks and I'd be planted on their columns
Your features blurred in every grainy photo
And fading headline of the Daily News
Wiltwyck School for Criminal Children
Auburn, Brooklyn House of D.,
Dannemora, Sing-Sing, Attica,
Greenhaven
SALVADOR
Twenty years inside, today you're free.
You cannot even read your story
The pages piling up in shame
Before the words released you, the guard
would kill the light
The night you took The Capeman for your
name.
CHORUS
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico
I was born in Puerto Rico
Boys Will Be Boys Lyrics
Boys - John's gone he's left on a bus Will be boys - In a hurry he's forgotten about us Boys - Even Billy's getting confused Will be boys - He's got the girl now he's nothing to loose Oh Boy Boys - Its all over and never again Will be boys - To be a confrontation like there was just then Boys - One girl in the neighbourhood Will be boys - Two boys and one's no good Oh Boy Boys - will be boys Boys - I wanna dance I wanna dance with you W
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Boys - John's gone he's left on a bus Will be boys - In a hurry he's forgotten about us Boys - Even Billy's getting confused Will be boys - He's got the girl now he's nothing to loose Oh Boy Boys - Its all over and never again Will be boys - To be a confrontation like there was just then Boys - One girl in the neighbourhood Will be boys - Two boys and one's no good Oh Boy Boys - will be boys Boys - I wanna dance I wanna dance with you W
LAZARUS
Yo nac en Puerto Rico
Yo nac en Puerto Rico
Mi corazn es Puerto Rico
Mi alma es Puerto Rico
Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar-Paul Simon
Coro Vocal-Danny Rivera
Background Vocal-Ray De La Paz
Background Vocal-Nestor Sanchez
Piano, Synthesizer-Oscar Hernandez
Tres, Plenaro-Nelson Gonzalez
Cuatro-Edgardo Miranda
Guitar-Vincent Nguini
Bass-John Beal
Drums-Robby Ameen
Bongos, Cymbal-Bobby Allende
Timbales, Congas, Cua-Marc Quinones
Trumpet-1st solo-David Rodriguez
Trumpet-2nd solo-Ray Vega
Viola-Juliet Hafner
Flute-Oriente Lopez
French Horn-Stewart Rose
Oboe-Marcia Butler
Orchestration-Stanley Silverman