“Resistencia” is the first single from Kendo Kaponi after being released from the arrest of which he was the protagonist in 2018.
The existence of the song was made known by Kendo himself, who posted a photo on his Instagram account of him watching the song’s video clip.
[Verse 1]
I was shot to kill and for a divine reason
The bullets' didn't hit me, they hit my nephew
On the ground I played dead, taking a bad chance
May luck help me or death control the scale
I have asked heaven and then I break the alliance
Me on the ground, the desperation of the shots'
Screams of that slaughter
I told God: "One more and I swear I won't take revenge"
[Bridge]
Life is heads or tails, likе a coin
And the promises of life
Fulfills thеm as you can
[Verse 2]
I hope my God intercedes for my sister-in-law (Ah-ah)
My heart doesn't speak to me, it gets tangled up (Ah-ah-ah-ah)
It was my fault, even though I didn't want it to happen
My nephew's world was reduced to a wheelchair
I have wounds in my heart
And memories on watch
I still don't understand so many things
The disguise of betrayal is forgiveness
And I don't forget my first enemies
Many traded their honor to be witnesses
Those who failed received their punishment
And others who were with me saw how a friend killed another friend
The hate came back
We did everything in our power to finish everything that started
You don't know how many things I did, but Tan never came back
You don't know how much I saw happen
That I preferred to turn my face and not look
Don't mix love or let it in
To fuck me you don't have to love me
My life in the notebook, combining all the Retros with friends put on the shirts
I sang what I lived without caring what you interpret
I demonstrated it in "Soldado y Profeta"
The hostile, nobody is going to repeat my life
I knew it was them even though they were in civilian clothes
That night I wasn't behind the wheel
If not, I don't get arrested on April 9
My son's situation was not a choice
I only acted for protection
My reasoning was not in readiness
The court did not understand my position and sentenced me to prison
And Christmas in depression, Christmas Eve in segregation
I say goodbye to the year with just myself having a conversation
That the problems had brought out the worst version of me
Write songs only sometimes
The memories were my cancer, the chemotherapy the verses
Red and black, blood and war 27
May Tapia rest in peace (He died in prison, where)
They extinguished my kite, the dreams of my life and my goals
They fell from my eyes in the drops
That I cleaned with a napkin, and I'm illiterate
My story has never been a secret
I reminded my wife on the visit that I was a poet
That our lives were going to change
With new ideas that I wrote in a notebook, and
[Interlude]
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
[Verse 3]
I go out, and as soon as outside I take a step
I see the panorama and I review it
They are the same and continue in the same delay
Nah, I don't want any more drop in my glass
The rumors are real, to be an artist is to surround yourself with traitors
But there are fanatics and spectators
The mask of the clown always laughs, when I don't like the colors
Back abroad, but a new man
With all the promises that I made to heaven
But it wasn't enough, in a 2020 Ferrari
Anuel and Frabi helped me cross the bridge, thanks (Real to death)
The border is not yet walled
The governor of Puerto Rico is underlined
Dictatorships always fail
And five months later Kobe Bryant dies
In P fucking R the earthquakes collapsing the walls
The problems grow, but faith does not move
News on the media: Kobe resurrects, but this one is 19
The war is cold
I have seen mine die, I've dropped tears while I'm laughing
Neither money nor social status, today the streets are sealed to the void
[Interlude]
Fear back, luck loose
Everything you love behind the door (Ah-ah-ah)
Who did you judge?
Who did you blame?
[Verse 4]
She's back, she opens the door
And her husband is on the floor with two dead daughters
Do you understand the context?
In Italy, the skating rinks are for decomposed bodies
And there are so many dead that there isn't a total
There are so many sick that there is no hospital
All clinging on the spiritual
Because the ship is so big that it has no captain
They blame the government
Another say that in the Bible, it's about Hell
Whatever, we're out in the open
And I don't see the end of this fucking series
Hey, or is it that you can't understand
That if your son gets sick, they separate you from him?
And if the virus defeats it, forensic separates him from you
And he dies alone because you won't see him again
You will not see the body, they leave it wrapped
Because they can spread even after death
Like spiritual warfare, the enemy is not visual
And what they love they won't even be able to bury
[Verse 5]
I remained ignorant, even my face changed
I never thought I'd experience something like this
As if all this were that my God is upset
And if this is his wrath, we're all exposed
Lord, I'm just a storyteller
My world is dying and the families in terror
Set the freezer for the bodies because there is no room for dead
In New York City
No one talks about a cure, my family is unsure
The images that I have seen are so hard
Old men and children with tenderness inaugurate
New coffins, made like from garbage bags
One on top of the other, I ask you mercy for us, Christ
Losing faith is restricted
But Donald Trump said that two weeks are approaching the strongest sadness we have ever seen
[Outro]
The decades of this world have been adopted by name that transcended beyond what one day gave them power
And for great situations that were diluted between the open fingers of the hands that will never be forgotten by their pure hearts
Stories of innumerable historical value and riches
Of some loved ones and others hated, remember that poison also has purity
Stories that have more information to tell, than drops in what we know as the sea
Events that time has not been able to deteriorate
Today we only have them to admire or learn
I didn't think I would ever have life to see my world suffer either
And live to see
Today the questions saturate us, talking about God, from the hand of the human and if we are the disease or the cure
And I think about it every night that my eyes close
I've been through so much, that a virus is not going to take away the only thing I have left on this earth
Because problems drag us down to our knees
But just that is the most powerful position of the human of war
In the name of God, my land will be healthy
Endurance
Resistencia (English Translation) was written by Kendo Kaponi.
Resistencia (English Translation) was produced by Super Yei & Frabian Eli.
Kendo Kaponi released Resistencia (English Translation) on Tue Apr 28 2020.