Rage Against the Machine - Maria lyrics

The sun ablaze as Maria's foot
Touches the surface of sand
On northern land, as human contraband
Some rico from Jalisco passed her
Name to the Boss
She stuffed into a truckbed
She clutches her cross
Here comes the exhaust and it
Rips through her lungs
She's off fast to the pasture
Like cattle she'll cross
Degree 106, sweat and vomit are thrown
And she prays and suffocates upon
The memories of home
Of Yanqui guns for blood, debts on the loans
Of smoldering fields, rape, rubble and bones
Of graves hidden
Trapped up in visions of war
Of nothing, no one, nobody, no more

These are her mountains and
Skies and she radiates
Through history's rivers of blood
She regenerates
And like the sun disappears only to reappear
She's eternally here her time is near
Never conquered but here

To tear away at the mask

And now she got a quota
The needle and thread crucifixion
Sold and shipped across the new
Line of Mason Dixon rippin' through denim
The point an inch from her vein
The foreman approach
His steps now pound in her brain
His presence
It terrifies and eclipses her days
No minutes to rest, no moments to pray
And with a whisper he whips her
Her soul chained to his will
"My job is to kill if you
Forget to take your pill" her arms jerk
The sisters gather 'round her and scream
As if in a dream, eyes on the crimson stream
Numb as her wrists spit shots
Of blood to the floor
I am nothing, no one, nobody, no more

These are her mountains and
Skies and she radiates
Through history's rivers of blood
She regenerates
And like the sun disappears only to reappear
(Maria) she's eternally here
Her time is near never conquered but here

To tear away at the mask away at the mask
To tear away at the mask

No minutes to rest no moment to pray
No minutes to rest no moment to pray
No minutes to rest it eclipses her day
Just a moment to pray

To tear away at the mask away at the mask
To tear away at the mask
To tear away at the mask