Born In Puerto Rico Lyrics - The Essential Paul Simon - Paul Simon

I was born in puerto rico 

we came here when i was a child 

before i made to my sixteenth 

i was running with the gang and we were wild. 

He keeps looking but don't recognize me. 

some guy from lexington or park 

red beans and rice from kitchen windows 

it's supper-time and the barrio is dark. 

No one knows you like i do 

no one can know your heart the way i do 

no one can testify to all that you've been though 

but i will. 

I was born in puerto rico 

and my blood is taino 

spanish caribbean in my soul 

we came here wearing summer clothes in winter 

hearts of sunshine in the cold. 

Your family rented this apartment 

you'd watch the street lamps from your perch 

in the sacramental hour your stepfather in black 

preached the fire of the pentecostal church. 

No one knows you like i do 

nobody can know your heart the way i do 

no one can testify to all that you've been through 

but this will. 

I was born in puerto rico 

came here when i was a child. 

small change and sunlight, then i left these streets for good. 

my days as short as they were wild. 

I'm frenchy cordero, i'm angel soto 

indio rivera, 'baboo' charlie cruz 

the faces blurred in every grainy photo 

and fading headline of the daily news 

Judge's voice 

wiltwych school for criminal children 

auburn, brooklyn house of d., 

dannemora, sing-sing, attica, 

greenhaven 

Twenty years inside, today you're free 

You cannot even read your story 

the pages piling up in shame 

before the words released you, the 

guard would kill the light 

the night you took the capeman for your name. 

I was born in puerto rico 

i was born in puerto rico 

yo nacir in puerto rico 

all my heart is puerto rico 

all my soul is puerto rico 

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