Little Puerto Rican
Well integrated, almost New Yorker
In my building, all of glass and steel
I take my job, a line of coke, a coffee

Little Afghan girl
On the other side of the earth
Never heard of Manhattan
My daily life is misery and war

Two strangers at the end of the world, so different
Two unknowns, two anonymous, yet
Pulverized on the altar, of eternal violence

A 747 exploded in my windows
My sky so blue has become storm
When the bombs razed my village

Two strangers at the end of the world, so different
Two unknowns, two anonymous, yet
Pulverized, on the altar, of eternal violence

So long, goodbye my American dream
Me, never again a slave of dogs
They imposed on you the Islam of tyrants
Have they never read the Quran?

I've become dust again
I won't be master of the universe
This country that I loved so much would it be
Finally a colossus with feet of clay?

The gods, the religions
The wars of civilization
The weapons, the flags, the homelands, the nations
Always make us cannon fodder

Two strangers at the end of the world, so different
Two unknowns, two anonymous, yet
Pulverized on the altar, of eternal violence

Two strangers at the end of the world, so different
Two unknowns, two anonymous, yet
Pulverized, on the altar, of eternal violence

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