We are...the same

Play it again, Sam. I should accept I have never seen the full movie, but this phrase is in the memory of the whole Western World. This sentence's history is very interesting. First of all, this popular phrase isn't said on the movie although people atributtes this sentence to Rick (Humphrey Bogart). Dooley Wilson (Sam) was one of the first black people who appears in a film playing an important role. Direrctors used to hire white people where they used to perform as a black person.

On this blog I want to talk about the songs that are connected with race and gender. I think it's a good and different way to show how these topics are dealed in the music's world. My goal is to show you in each post a different song and the way that I understand it.

This first song I'm posting is one of my favourite songs. I have pick up it because it talks about we, the world, everybody, without distinguishish between gender, race, religion or country. The group who sings it is called “Los Delinquentes”, and they play a mix of the tipically spanish music (flamenco) and rock. And the song's name is “Somos”, that translated to Spanish is “We are”. I like this song because of its lyric and its music. If you hear it and read its lyrics, you can see how they talk about our virtues and shortcomings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvXLTm3DB7c

Los Delinquentes - Somos (Laboratorio de ritmo)

Nacimos, crecimos, y los huevos pusimos,
en la cesta de mimbre nos reproducimos
por ser vividores por muchas razones .
Animales, humanos, se ve que cantamos,
personas que nacen con piernas y manos.
Llegamos, tocamos y después miramos.
Somos caraduras vestimos con pluma,
somos raíces que sueñan, somos de papel.
Somos laboratorios de ritmo,
fresquitos sin accesorios,
somos el cable que enciende tu luz.
Somos todo lo que quieras tú.
Somos coyote y avestruz.
Somos el viento, somos calor, somos boquete der pantalón.
Somos pequeños y salvajes.
Somos valientes, lo digo yo, todos tenemos la solución.
Somos más listos que los propios animales.
Encierro tu rabia redonda, la lío, la estiro y la pongo de alfombra
y me muerdo los dientes.
Volar es mi reto, me aprieto y lo intento.
Queremos nadar en el agua que hay en el aire que todo lo envuelve,
somos serpentina que al viento se escurre.
Somos energía, la noche y el día, somos berberechos sin rumbo, sin techo.
Ganamos para perder.
Somos un diccionario con nuevas canciones en tu calendario,
somos marionetas que quieren saber.
Somos tú y lo que quieran todos, somos mas feos que los monos.
Somos el viento, somos calor, somos boquete der pantalón.
Somos pequeños y salvajes.
Somos valientes, lo digo yo, todos tenemos la solución.
Somos más listos que los propios animales.

Los Delinquentes - We are (Rhythm laboratory)

We bore, we grew, and we layed the eggs,
in the wicker basket we breed
because we are pleasure seekers because of a lot of reasons.
Animals, humans, we sing,
People who bear with legs and hands.
We arrive, we touch and then we look (it refers to play hide-and-seek)
We are cheeky svaine and we dress with feathers,
we are roots that dream, we are made of paper.
We are rhythm laboratories,
we are nerve without accesories,
we are the cable that turn on your light.
We are all that you want,
we are coyote and road runner.
We are the wind, we are the warm, we are a hole in your trousers.
We are little and savage.
We are brave, because I say it, all of us have the reason,
we are cleverer than the animals.
I lock up your round anger, I bundle it up, I stretch it and I put it as a carpet,
and I beat the teeth myself.
To fly is my challenge, I gret myself and I try it.
We want swim in the cloud's water,
we are streamer that flyes with the wind.
We are energy, the night and the day, we are free birds.
We win to lose.
We are a dictionary with new songs in your calendar,
we are puppets that want to learn.
We are you and all they want, we are uglier tan the monkeys.
We are the wind, we are the warm, we are a hole in your trousers.
We are little and savage.
We are brave, because I say it, all of us have the reason,
we are cleverer than the animals.

Probably, after you hear the song and read the lyrics translated to English, you have not understand nothing. That's because this group used to explain itself with a lot of Spanish set phrases, and it has been very difficult to me to translate the song.

In short, that te song wants to say is that all we are the same, we usually do and we like the same things, doesn't matter who we are, where we are from or if we are male or female.