It's a million miles, a giant place   Like a work of art, amazing, amazing   Fast cars that cannot move die for a parking space   Stuck on a carousel, crazy, it's crazy   When you laugh till you cry, when you laugh      All's well here in El Norte   Who'd have thought it could be like this?   Big money for a job well done, I swear to you   I got a ride from a coyote   Who sells high on the black market   So your loved one can be home soon   So your loved one can be home soon      Fine women with dress-up clothes say and do anything   Wake up to work the day, tousled and tangled   Rub shoulders with the downtown gang   Where the Virgin lives   Just like a movie star, hopeful and graceful   When she smiles till you laugh, till you cry      All's well here in El Norte   Who'd have thought it could be like this   Big money for a job well done, I swear to you   I got a ride from a coyote   Who sells high on the black market   So your loved one can be home soon   So your loved one      Maybe I don't understand it, maybe I won't try   But nobody seems too satisfied      All's well here in El Norte   Who'd have thought it could be like this      So your loved one can be home soon   So your loved one can be home soon