Browne Jackson My Personal Revenge Lyrics

My Personal Revenge Lyrics

(English Translation by Jorge Calderon)

 

 My personal revenge will be the right

 Of our children in the schools and in the gardens

 My personal revenge will be to give you

 This song which has flourished without panic

 My personal revenge will be to show you

 The kindness in the eyes of my people

 Who have always fought relentlessly in battle

 And been generous and firm in victory

 

 My personal revenge will be to tell you good morning

 On a street without beggars or homeless

 When instead of jailing you I suggest

 You shake away the sadness there that blinds you

 And when you who have applied your hands in torture

 Are unable to look up at what surrounds you

 My personal revenge will be to give you

 These hands that once you so mistreated

 But have failed to take away their tenderness

 

 It was the people who hated you the most

 When rage became the language of their song

 And underneath the skin of this town today

 Its heart has been scarred forevermore

 

 It was the people who hated you the most

 When rage became the language of their song

 And underneath the skin of this town today

 Its heart has been scarred forevermore

 And underneath the skin of this town today

 Red and black, its heart's been scarred

 Forevermore