Baby Elian

Album: Know Your Enemy (2001)
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  • Blockades won't win you more votes
    A Cuban adjustment act
    Offer the world a dream
    Dress it up, it's blackmail

    Internal matter they say
    For two million dollars a day
    Maybe a future in film
    But Cuban boxers still win

    Kidnapped, to the promised land
    The Bay of Pigs
    Or baby Elian
    Operation, Peter Pan
    America
    The Devil's playground

    Baby Elian
    Baby Elian

    Across the unfair divide
    Where black will never meet white
    So read my token lips
    As if they never exist

    You cannot buy a nation
    Not even the Miami mob
    We follow a shining path
    That you will never destroy

    Kidnapped, to the promised land
    The Bay of Pigs
    Or baby Elian
    Operation, Peter Pan
    America
    The Devil's playground

    You don't just sit in a rocking chair
    When you've built a revolution
    You don't just sit in a rocking chair
    When you've built a revolution

    Baby Elian
    Baby Elian Writer/s: BRADFIELD, JONES, MOORE
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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