Lyrics
1936 (July 19th)
This is the final moment of the beginning of our lives.
Watching the stars above the Barcelona sky.
We wait for dawn with revolution in our eyes
When we’ll face the men that Franco sent to die.
This city may crumble and along with it out homes,
But we’ll live in ruins if we can call this city our own!
Down with the landlords, the tyrants and the kings!
Down with the bosses, the politicians and the thieves!
We stand defiant, united to defend
This new society that we have built with our own hands!
Well we’ve built this city once and we’ll build this city again. This time we’ll do it for ourselves!
We couldn’t read, so we started our own schools!
We took the factories – they jeered and called us fools.
Even the communists, with their lofty rhetoric
Thought we were incapable. They thought we were incompetent!
But we’ve built this city once and we’ll build this city again. This time we’ll do it for ourselves!
We don’t need no priests and we don’t need no cops!
We don’t need no guidance from some fucking vanguard!
This time we’ll build a world where no one needs to beg.
Smash this bourgeois world of hate!
We’ll build this city on love and we’ll build this city with life! This time we’ll build this city right!
Tierra y libertad! Mujeres libres! Viva la revolución!
“We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a time. For, you must not forget, that we can also build palaces and cities, here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least bit afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth. There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world, here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.”
- Buenaventura Durruti
(Mark Vermin)
Tagalog translation courtesy of Darwin – Verbal Offense
1936 (ika labing siyam ng hulyo)
Ito ang huling yugto ng simula ng ating buhay.
Minamasid ang mga bituin sa kalangitan ng barcelona
Ating hinihintay ang pag-sikat ng araw at rebolusyon
sa ating mga mata.
Ng ating harapin ang tauhan ni Franco na pinadala niya
upang mapaslang.
Ang siyudad ay maaaring maguho at kasama ang ating
tahanan.
Pero mas gugustuhin nating tumira sa mga natupok na
bahay basta masabi natin na tayo ang nag-aari.
Ibagsak sila,Nagma may-ari ng lupa,malupit na amo at
mga hari.
Ibagsak din ang mga amo,politiko at mga mandarambong.
Tayo’y tumayong lumalaban,nagkakaisa para ipagtanggol
Itong bagong lipunan na ginawa ng sarili nating mga
kamay.
TAYO ANG GUMAWA NG SIYUDAD
MINSAN AT MAGAGAWA NATIN MULI AT SA PAGKAKATAON NGAYON
TAYO ANG MISMONG GAGAWA ULI.
Hindi natin mabasa ito,kaya sinimulan natin ang
sariling paaralan.
Kinuha natin ang pabrika-sila’y nag saya at tinawag
tayong mga hangal.
Kahit ang mga makakaliwa kasama ng kanilang mataas na
retorika.
Inisip natin na kaya natin.inisip nila na tayo ay
walang kakayahan.
PERO TAYO ANG NAGTAYO NG SIYUDAD MINSAN, AT ITATAYO
NATIN MULI
NGAYON AY GAGAWIN NATIN NA PARA SA ATIN.
Hindi natin kailangan ng mga pari at
hindi natin kailangan ng kapulisan hindi natin
Kailangan ng pagtingin ng isang kalokohang vanguardya.
Ngayon itatayo natin ang mundo na kahit sinuman ay
hindi na kailangang mamalimos.
Durugin ang burgis na mundo ng galit.
ITATAYO NATIN MULI ANG LIPUNAN NG PAGMAMAHAL
AT ITATAYO NATIN ITO NG MAY BUHAY.
NGAYON AY ITATAYO NATIN ANG SIYUDAD NA ANGKOP AT TAMA.
Tierra y libertad! Mujeres libres! Viva la revolucion!
