The Symbol - Son Volt

My name is Juan from Monterrey

I’ve been 10 years in the USA

Repaired New Orleans after the hurricane

I built a home and made a better way

Now there’s fear, angry words saying «Go!»

They say I’m a criminal, what do they know?

Rounded up my friends without papers to show

They wanna send us back, back to Mexico

They say I’m a criminal, that’s what they say

My children were born, born in the USA

They say these children, they too must go

But their home is here, not Mexico

From where I now stand on this alluvial ground

Where waves of immigrants laid their bundles down

And the symbol of freedom must stand the test of time

Built stronger than words that divide

They say I’m a criminal, that’s what they say

My children were born, born in the USA

They say these children, they too must go

But their home is here, not Mexico

They say I’m a criminal, that’s what they say

My children were born, born in the USA

They say these children, they too must go

But their home is here, not Mexico