Rezo Mío Lyrics in English by Abraham Vazquez

Rezar means “to pray,” but in this song it carries more weight than a simple religious act. The singer uses it as a desperate, personal plea while reflecting on violence, poverty, addiction, and children suffering, making this repeated word central to the song’s emotional message.

“Rezo Mío” means “My Prayer,” and Abraham Vazquez turns that prayer into a direct conversation with God. He says, “Buenas tardes, padre mío” [Good afternoon, my father], then complains that God seems to have forgotten his suffering while giving help to everyone else. The prayer is not quiet or polished. It moves through police violence, human trafficking, hunger, weapons, attacks on immigrants, pollution, and children who suffer abuse or grow up without a safe home. The repeated image of passing through his neighborhood and seeing children with “trastornos y golpes” [distress and bruises] makes the song feel close to the street and to family life, not like a distant sermon.

The song also admits personal trouble. The narrator says he has returned to drugs, remembers school massacres, and struggles to find a way to pray or remember how to love. His rhymes are deliberately explicit: “La calle que te matan por matar” [the street where they kill you just to kill], a blunt line about violence without a clean explanation. Near the end, he tells God, “La vida me dio piedras y yo le empecé a tirar” [Life threw stones at me, and I started throwing them back]. That image sums up his attitude: he is hurt, angry, and still talking to God because he wants an answer. The final request, “Tú que tanto me amas, solo empieza a amar” [You, who love me so much, just start loving], sounds like a challenge to heaven and to people on earth.