We were born to endure what the body holds
We endure what came and we endure what is coming
We endure even though we have our seconds numbered
Our body endures up to fifteen minutes hanging
We endure lashings, that they cut off both our arms
Fractures in any bone, three weeks in a cast
We endure the urge to go to the bathroom all the time
To see Halley’s comet, you have to endure seventy years
We endure school, college, the institute
At dinner time, we hold in the burps
The people of Burundi keep enduring famine
We endure three days to get to the moon
We endure the cold of the Arctic, the heat of the Tropic
We endure with antibodies the microscopic viruses
We endure storms, hurricanes, bad weather
We endure Nagasaki, we endure Hiroshima
Even if we don't want to, we endure new laws
We endure today that kings still exist
We punish the humble and endure the cruel
We endure being slaves because of our skin color
We endure capitalism, communism, socialism
Feudalism, we even endure a**holism
We endure the guilty one when he pretends to be innocent
We endure our president every year
For what was and for what could have been
For what there is, for what may be missing
For what will come and for this instant
Let's toast for endurance!
For what was and for what could have been
For what there is, for what may be missing
For what will come and for this instant
Raise the glass and let's toast for endurance!
Let's toast for endurance!
We endure any kind of pain even though it hurts
We endure Pinochet, we endure Videla
Franco, Mao, Ríos Montt, Mugabe, Hitler, Idi Amin
Stalin, Bush, Truman, Ariel Sharon and Hussein
We endure more than twenty concentration camps
When you swim underwater you hold your breath
To build a wall we endure the bricks
Whoever doesn't smoke endures the cigarette smell
We endure that Monsanto infects our food
We endure Agent Orange and the pesticides
When we sail, we endure seasickness
We endure the minimum wage and unemployment
We endure the Falklands and the British invasion
In the city of Pompeii we endure volcanic lava
And inside the logic of our humanity
We believe the lie and nobody endures the truth
For what was and for what could have been
For what there is, for what may be missing
For what will come and for this instant
Raise the glass and let's toast for endurance!
Let's toast for endurance!
We endure the atheist, the Mormon, the Christian
The Buddhist, the Jew, we endure the pagan
We endure the one who sells bullets and the one who fires them
We endure Lennon's death, Víctor Jara's
We endure many wars, Vietnam, the Cold War
The Hundred Years' War, the Six-Day War
That they endure the revenge, we came for payback
Today our liver endures whatever the bar offers
For what was and for what could have been
For what there is, for what may be missing
For what will come and for this instant
Let's toast for endurance!
For what was and for what could have been
For what there is, for what may be missing
For what will come and for this instant
Raise the glass and let's toast for endurance!
Let's toast for endurance!