Lila Downs
Brown Paper People lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2003
- Genre
- Cumbia
- Length
- 4:19
See a continent hidden
See a paradise crazy
See the gods who were strangers
In a liquid gold city
See the brown, brown paper people
See the footprint and the money
See the funny, funny, funny bird snake man
See the gold in his garden
See the gold in his garden
See the gold in his garden
See the dance in the hip-hop, they hold to the lie
Then show me graphic that Africa will die
And so let there be war by the unspoken source
In the struggle to survive
Tell me, tell me what money can buy
Only when we lose our loved ones
Do we realize that we are alive
See together tomorrow
See the people take cover
See the god then no goodness
Know the free trade and the hunger
See the mind on a pillow
See the anger and the lonely
Touch the wisdom
Welcome water
Feel the mother
Feel the ripple
Feel the ripple
Feel the ripple, feel the ripple
All around you
All around you
Todo a tu alrededor
All around you
Todo a tu alrededor
See the ripple
Ve la onda
Feel the ripple
Siente la onda
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Key vocabulary
- loved
- love
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About this song
Lila Downs is a Mexican-born singer-songwriter and performer. She makes Indigenous Mexican-rooted music that blends North American jazz and Latin American folk, and is known for albums such as Ofrenda and for receiving Grammy and Latin Grammy awards.