Maria

Tha sun ablaze as Maria's foot touches tha surface of sand

On northern land, as human contraband

Some rico from Jalisco passed her name to tha Boss

She's stuffed ten to a truckbed, she clutches her cross

Here comes tha exhaust and it rips through her lungs

She's off fast to tha pasture, like cattle she'll cross

Degree 106, sweat and vomit are thrown

And she prays and suffocates upon tha memories of home

Of Yanqui guns for blood debts on tha loans

Of smoldering fields, rape, rubble and bones

Of graves hidden, trapped up in visions of war

Of nothing, no one, nobody, no more

These are her mountains and skies and she radiates

And through history's rivers of blood she regenerates

And like tha sun disappears only to reappear

She's eternally here

Her time is near

Never conquered but here

To tear away at tha mask

And now she got a quota, tha needle and thread crucifixion

Sold and shipped across tha new line of Mason Dixon

Rippin' through denim, tha point an inch from her vein

Tha foreman approach, his steps now pound in her brain

His presence it terrifies and eclipses her days

No minutes to rest, no moments to pray

And with a whisper he whips her, her soul chained to his will

"My job is to kill if you forget to take your pill"

Her arms jerk, tha sisters gather round her and scream

As if in a dream, eyes on tha crimson stream

Numb as her wrists spit shots of blood to tha floor

I am nothing, no one, nobody, no more

These are her mountains and skies and she radiates

And through history's rivers of blood she regenerates

And like tha sun disappears only to reappear

Maria

She's eternally here

Her time is near

Never conquered but here

To tear away at tha mask

Away at tha mask

To tear away at tha mask

No minutes to rest

No moment to pray

No minutes to rest

No moment to pray

No minutes to rest

It eclipses her day, just a moment to pray

To tear away at tha mask

Away at tha mask

To tear away at tha mask

To tear away at tha mask