!Ya Basta! Letra

You ask why are we angry? I say look at history.

the cause of all our troubles it is not a mystery

there are those who's lives are easy

there are those who's lives are rough.

now is the time for us to rise and cry out enough is



enough borders enough nations

enough corporate exploitation

enough racist air pollution

enough racist institutions.

enough chains and enough cages

enough starvation wages

enough highways and gas stations

enough control by corporations



we won't take it anymore

yeah, this is class war!

we will fight you in the streets

and we will dance on your defeat

!Ya Basta!



I swear to you there'll be a day when the melting pot will boil

and you only bring us closer with each war you make for oil

each union that you break and each ballot box you stuff

brings us closer to the day when we will cry out enough is



enough greedy politicians

enough gender-role traditions

enough hierarchies

enough of living on our knees

enough gouging of the planet

enough destruction of the earth

enough tearing of her flesh

to see what the insides might be worth



and all around the world the people are fighting back

each day another shard of the system starts to crack

in Argentina and Chiapas, with our rage and with our love

the people are all crying out: enough is



enough war and occupation

enough propaganda stations

enough enforced reality

enough police brutality.

enough nuclear arms

and enough factory farms

enough stolen women's choices

enough silenced women's voices



enough words have been said

enough songs have been sung

enough protests have been had

enough banners have been hung

we are many they are few

there is so much we can do

when we use what we have learned

and fight them on our own terms

because they need us

and we don't need them

it is our sweat and labor

on which they all depend

they need us to drive their trucks

they need us to shine their crowns

they need us to be the cops

who beat our comrades down

but what good are all their laws

with no one to institute 'em?

and what good are all their guns

if there's no one there to shoot 'em?

we can shove ballots down our throats

to soothe our affliction

but it won't do a bit of good

'till we are cured of our addiction

because bush is just a cough

and kerry's just a sneeze

symptoms of a disease

known as free market economy.



¡YA BASTA!