Father, yes, I am a prisoner   Fear not to relay my crime   The crime is loving the forsaken   Only silence is shame      And now I'll tell you what's against us   An art that's lived for centuries   Go through the years and you will find   What's blackened all of history      Against us is the law   With its immensity of strength and power   Against us is the law   Police know how to make a man   A guilty or an innocent      Against us is the power of police   The shameless lies that men have told   Will ever more be paid in gold   Against us is the power of the gold   Against us is racial hatred   And the simple fact that we are poor      My father dear, I am a prisoner   Don't be ashamed to tell my crime   The crime of love and brotherhood   And only silence is shame      With me I have my love, my innocence   The workers and the poor   For all of this I'm safe and strong   And hope is mine      Rebellion, revolution don't need dollars   They need this instead   Imagination, suffering, light and love   And care for every human being      You never steal, you never kill   You are a part of hope and life   The revolution goes from man to man   And heart to heart   And I sense when I look at the stars   That we are children of life, death is small