I can only guess at where you came from   Did you grow up in the country   Did your father spend his days with a basket on his back   On someone's farm picking coffee   When he came home from the fields did he throw you on his shoulders   And take you on a pony ride   When you went to bed with no food in your belly   Did he hold you when you cried      How many of your siblings gave in to the hunger   That the healers couldn't save   How many bodies did you pull out from the river   For how many did you dig their grave   When did you decide to leave the village   Was it just something that you knew   Was it just time for you to go or did you know   Exactly what you set out to do      (Chorus)   Every song I've written has been a love song   This one is just another   Song for the love of an unknown soldier      Did you spend years in the jungle fighting for your freedom   Fighting for your people's liberation   Did you watch your companeros die around you   While you held fast to your vocation   Did you make rocket launchers in your rebel hideouts   Like your mother made papusas   Did you dream the dreams of La Pasionaria   Or those of Poncho Villa      (Chorus)      All I know is that I saw you on a rooftop in the city   In a photo on the cover of the Times   Long black hair flowing down, a machine gun in your hand   In your face was freedom's ringing chimes   Looking at your picture, one of a thousand killed that day   In a moment I could feel that my heart grew   And in all the trials of my life you know   I can only hope to be as beautiful as you      (Chorus)