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Wasteland
Do you know the heat under your feet while you're walking?
The wind blowing hardly on your face and dust opening sores on your skin?
Do you know thirst or hunger when there are only dry rocks everywhere?
My hands never felt the touch of grass.
My eyes never saw the color of what you called flowers.
My mouth has never tasted anything but sour and salted stuff.
My ears... (sigh) My ears only hear the earth moan now...
Brought by the wind as blizzards and bursts.
When the unmercyfull cold reaches me at night,
I lay down and remember my mother's songs.
The ones about colors and children, like me, playing at parks.
Now the only things to play are bone, rock and thorns figurines.
I found a book some days ago.
So old it turned itself into dust in my hands.
Even so, I get to read what it said about the past.
About smog, and cars...
Those cars that we see thrown away in hughe extentions of land this days.
I read about the smiles of wealthy people
that did nothing but to open factories and industries.
Same as the ones that now offer nothing but shelter
to the thousands looking for refuge, like me.
I also read about those unconscious men
chopping trees and planting beyond measure
to feed the whole world.
Letting the earth to die without concerning about the fields.
Fields now filled up with corpses, rotting into earth's guts.
Leaving behind what of "beings" they remained.
Because the "human" is what's buried there.
The "human" is what fills the factories.
The "human" is what lay at the car dumpsters.
The "human" is what printed its foot on this world.
An indelible footprint.
As I walk on this wasteland, I feel my "being" going away too.
Now i'll be part of these dry lands.
I'll dry along in it's warm guts.
The only thing that makes me glad is to leave behind the "human",
the vile, destructive and violent that inhabited me.
Have you listened?!!!
This is what I've lived.
But "I" don't exist any more.
And "You"?
What do "You" want to live?
Wasteland
Written, Performed and Edited by Aureliano Castillo León
Music Selection Federico Ríos
English Subtitles by Menelion