El Aguante [English translation]

We were born to endure all the body can bear.

We endure what came before and we'll endure what is yet to come.

We endure, even though we have seconds left on the clock.

Our body endures up to fifteen minutes being hanged.

We endure lashes, having both arms chopped off.

Fractures in any bone, three weeks in a cast.

We constantly endure the urge to use the toilet

To witness Halley's comet we endure seventy years

We endure schooling, it's faculty and the institution

At dinner time, we endure the desire to belch

The people of Burundi still endure famine

We endure three days in order to reach the moon.

We endure the cold arctic, the hot tropic

We endure antibodies, microscopic viruses

We endure storms, hurricanes, bad weather

We endured Nagasaki, we endured Hiroshima

Even though we don't want to, we endure new laws,

We endure that in the modern era kings still exist

We punish the meek and endure the cruel

We endure being made slaves because the color of our skin,

We endure capitalism, communism, socialism, feudalism, we even endure the gullible.

We endure the guilty even when they pretend to be innocent

Every day we endure our f***ing President

For what was and what could have been,

For what we have and what could be deficient

For what is to come and for this moment, let's toast to endurance!

For what was and what could have been,

For what we have and what could be deficient

For what is to come and for this moment, Raise your glass and let's toast to endurance! A toast to endurance!

We endure any type of pain, although it hurts,

We endured Pinochet, we endured Videla Franco, Mao, Rios Montt, Mugabe, Hitler, Idi Amin, Stalin, Bush, Truman, Ariel Sharon, and Hussein.

We endured more than twenty concentration camps,

When you swim underwater, you hold your breath and endure it,

To build a wall we endure the weight of all its bricks,

Nonsmokers endure the smell of cigarette smoke

We endure that Monsanto contaminates of our food

We endure Agent Orange and pesticides

When we sail we endure seasickness

We endure minimum wage and unemployment,

We endured the Falklands and the British invasion

In the city of Pompeii we endured molten lava

And within the logic of humankind

We believe the lie and no one endures the truth

For what was and what could have been,

For what we have and what could be deficient

For what is to come and for this moment, let's toast to endurance!

We endure the atheist, the Mormon, the Christian

the Buddhist, the Jew

We endure the pagan,

We endure those who sell bullets

and those who shoot them,

We endured the death of Lennon, of Victor Jara

We endured many wars, Vietnam, the Cold War

The Hundred Years War, the Six-Day War

They'll have to endure the rematch, as we come in retaliation,

today our liver will endure all the bar has to offer

For what was and what could have been,

For what we have and what could be deficient

For what is to come and for this moment, let's toast to endurance!

For what was and what could have been,

For what we have and what could be deficient

For what is to come and for this moment, Raise your glass and let's toast to endurance! A toast to endurance!

• Artist:Calle 13
• Album:Multi Viral