Ten years have already passed
Since I crossed as a wetback
I haven't fixed my papers
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I have my wife and my children
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That I brought them very young
And they have already forgotten
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Inside this great nation
When I remember, I even cry
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Even if the cage is made of gold
It doesn't stop being a prison
Would you like us to go back to live in Mexico?'
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My children don't talk to me
Another language they have learned
And have forgotten Spanish
They think like Americans
They deny that they are Mexicans
Even if they have my color
I don't know what's happening to me
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That even though I'm a family man
Because I'm afraid that they find me
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Inside this great nation
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When I remember, I even cry
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Even if the cage is made of gold
It doesn't stop being a prison