Here I was born, here I grew up
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Oh how beautiful even the sky that covers me
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And that December breeze that comes into the house
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How tasty is the salt of the sea of my beach
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That even though it has no train, its Sierra is snow-capped
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Where the sun hits my skin
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From the dreams that I never woke up
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The one from the photo at sunset
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And now I come back to see you again
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From the neighborhood corner dancing at the party
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Where everybody drinks with the door open
There’s no winter nor spring
It’s summer the whole life
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When the mango falls and the acacia blooms
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A little rain bath and a fresh fruit
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Who wants green mango and shaved ice with cola?
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Here all the sorrows go away with the waves
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I grew up watching the sunset
Like I have never seen them again
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And I learned to be happy living in the now
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Because the Caribbean wraps itself around my being
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And if it’s possible to be born again
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I would choose this place, its color and its aroma
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And on a neighborhood corner dancing champeta
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Eating butifarra until dawn
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There’s no winter nor spring
It’s summer the whole life
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When the mango falls and the acacia blooms
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A little rain bath and a fresh fruit
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One day I had to leave La Samaria
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And the world wasn’t the same far from there
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And even though destiny wanted it, I dodged it, I never left
It doesn’t matter where I was
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It doesn’t matter who I was with
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It doesn’t matter what happened, I was from here
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There’s no winter nor spring
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It’s summer the whole life
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When the mango falls and the acacia blooms
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A ripe banana on the table
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Because the Caribbean wraps itself around my being
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And if I had to be born again
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I would choose this place, I would choose here and now
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I am from here, I am from here
I was born here and I grew up here
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I am from here, I am from here
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I was born here and I grew up here