Come round you roving dancers If this speaks to the souls you were given If you like me have never believed In the kingdom of commerce we live in Language is a beginning But language is never enough And the terrorists look like my mother And do most of the same kind of stuff Here's to Pedro here's to Lolita Who kept looking at what they were seeing Like those New York signs in the sidewalk grime No blacks dogs or Puerto Ricans Y que viva Alicia Rodríguez And the thousands before and since Who talk too fast Get pushed and push back Then choose to start talking again So it's ride Alicia ride Move Alicia move I would be Boricua even if I was born on the Moon Alicia was put into prison No trial or charge or conviction Her crime was living the one way there is And that's screaming to get the tape off your lips I came here to sing for tomorrow To not let today get away And the signs may have changed but the lines are the same And they're still blaming us for their shame They're still blaming us for their need For a culture of ecstatic greed They still say what they said is not what they meant And it's our fault for listening My grandpa was a communist They might've said a terrorist And when someone looks at what I've done I know songs won't seem like enough Songs are for sure not nearly enough So it's ride Alicia ride Move Alicia move I would be Boricua even if I was born on the Moon Two groups convicted of American sedition Are the Proud Boys and the Puerto Ricans We share a Wikipedia page So what else can you say It's ticker tape accumulation Neoliberal sublimation New precariat convinced that immigrants are corporations Hold the phone just be patient While we burn your poets pages While the doctor takes the medicine and tries to fuck the patients Oh my God they put her in a courtroom in Chicago They bound her hands behind her back put tape across her mouth And when she screamed the tape released and she said what the world says You cannot own a country you do not own a country So two guards took her legs and they held her to the floor While another punched her in the face and gagged her like before She got fifty years and more And they never said what for She got out in 1999 She's been saying the same thing the whole time She's saying it still She's saying it now She's saying it still she's saying it now So it's ride Alicia ride Move Alicia move I would be Boricua even if I was born on the Moon