El Costo de la Vida [English translation]

The cost of living rises again

The peso is so low that you can't see it anymore

and you can't eat beans

a pound of rice or quarter-pound of coffee

nobody cares what you think

Is it because we do not speak English here

ah ah it's true .. ah ah it's 'true. ah ah it's true

do you understand?

do you do you.

And gasoline goes up again

The peso is so low that you can't see it anymore

and democracy can not grow

it corruption plays chess

nobody cares what you think?

is it because here we don't speak French

ah ah ah ah vous parlez vous parlez vous parlez ah ah ah ah no monsieur

we are a hole between the sea and sky

500 years later

a race on fire, black white and indigenous, but who discovered who ..

oh, the cost of living

is going up, see

The peso so low

you see, poor thing, can't see it,

and medicine, see, walks backwards,

here they don't cure, see, a foot blister,

here here

see here here

and now unemployment

also just bit me too

nobody cares no

neither Mitsubishi, see, nor Chevrolet

corruption going up

you see going up you see

the peso that gets low

you see, poor thing, can't see it,

and delinquency

you see, just caught me again

here they don't cure, see, a foot blister

here here

see here here

and now unemployment

also just bit me too

nobody cares no

neither Mitsubishi, see, nor Chevrolet

recession, up

you see going up you see

the peso so low

see, poor thing, can't see it,

and medicine, see, walks backwards

here they don't cure, see, a foot blister

here here, see, here here

and now unemployment

also bit me too

nobody cares no

neither Mitsubishi, see, nor Chevrolet

• Artist:Juan Luis Guerra
• Album:Areíto (1992)