Bridges Over Borders by Jade Loving

You tell me that I must perish like the flowers that I cherish
Nothing remaining of my name
You tell me that I must perish like the flowers that I cherish
Nothing remaining of my fame
But the gardens I planted are still young
And the songs that I sang will still be sung

Said the prince of texcoco
And now the whole wide world will know
How they killed our men
Raped our women
Breeding bastard kids who grow to rebel teens
All with identity crisis
And now you want us to leave our land as if you you arrived here first
But we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us

You tell me that I must perish like the flowers that I cherish
Nothing remaining of my name
You tell me that I must perish like the flowers that I cherish
Nothing remaining of my fame
But the gardens I planted are still young
And the songs that I sang will still be sung

We need to build bridges not walls
Along the rio grade
Because divided we fall 
And united we stand

Arizona what's been going on?
Whites telling browns we don't belong
You say we are one nation under god
And then right laws as if we are not
Texas you remember the Alamo?
How Santa Anna held his own?
We will never surrender 
and our ghosts will haunt the contenders

Until we build bridges not walls
Along the rio grand
Because divided we fall and united we stand



First you come and settle on our land
Then you bring in slaves to feed demand
But we won't take it
We fought and died to free our men
Damn right we'll do it all again
We ain't gonna take it
We ain't gonna take it