Calle 13

Lyrics La perla (feat. rubén blades y la chilinga) Calle 13

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La perla (feat. rubén blades y la chilinga)


Oye, esto va dedicado a todos los barrios de Puerto Rico. ¡Trujillo! Dedicado al barrio de la Perla.
¡Pocho! Dile a Johana que me haga un arroz con habichuela bien duro.
Un saludito a José, los cogemos bajando.
¿Y tú, qué estás mirando?
Yo tengo actitud desde los cinco años
Mi mae me la creó con tapabocas y regaños
Desde chiquito, canito, con el pelo castaño
Soy la oveja negra de todo el rebaño
Y fui creciendo poquito a poco
Brincando de techo en techo tumbado cocos
Y aunque casi me mato y casi me cocoto
Nunca me vieron llorando ni botando moco
Siempre perfumado y bien peinadito
Pa? buscarme una novia con un apellido bonito
Larita, mi primer beso de amor
Se casó la bruja, lluvia con sol

(coro)
Allá abajo en el hueco en el boquete
Nacen flores por ramillete
Casitas de colores con la ventana abierta
Vecinas de la playa puerta con puerta
Que yo tengo de todo, no me falta nada
Tengo la noche que me sirve de sabana
Tengo los mejores paisajes del cielo
Tengo una neverita repleta de cerveza con hielo

Un arcoíris con sabor a piragua
Gente bonita rodeada por agua
Los difuntos pintados en la pared con aerosol
Y los que quedan, jugando basketball
Un par de gringos que me dañan el paisaje
Vienen tirando fotos desde el aterrizaje
La policía, que se tira sin pena,
Rompiendo mi casa pa? cobrar la quincena
Aquí nació mi mae y hasta mi bisabuela
Este es mi barrio y yo soy libre como Mandela
Cuidado con la vieja escuela que no te coja
Que te va a meter con chancleta y palo de escoba
Así que no te me pongas majadero
Porque yo vengo con apetito de obrero
Pa? comerme a cualquiera que venga a robármelo mio
Yo soy el Napoleón del caserío
¡Oye! Esto se lo dedico a los que trabajan con un sueldo bajito
Pa? darle de comer a sus pollitos
Yo quiero a mi barrio como Tito quiere a Jaimito
Yo no lucho por un terreno pavimentado
Ni por metros cuadrados, ni por un sueño dorado
Yo lucho por un paisaje bien perfumado
Y por un buen plato de bistec encebollado
Por la sonrisa de mi madre que vele un millón
Lucho por mi abuela meciéndose en su sillón
Lucho por unos pinchos al carbón
Y por lo bonito que se ve La Perla desde un avión
¡Oye, dile!

(coro x2)
¡Oye!, Esto fue por la inocencia de de Jonatán Román
La Chilinga, desde Argentina
Estamos calentando motores. Dale

Esa risa en La Perla la escuché en el chorrillo
Y desde Pito hasta Callao y donde se acallan chiquillos
Creo en barrios con madres que vivieron iguales de razones
Y al final se murieron sin tener vacaciones
Como decía mi abuela: así fue la baraja en casa del pobre
Hasta el que es feto trabaja por ese barrio eterno también universal
Y el que se mete con mi barrio me cae mal

¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
Veo las luces de La Perla desde Panamá
¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
Brillando en clave Morse y me invitan pa? allá
¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
Un camino hecho de estrellas, semáforo la luna
¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
Salí a las siete y media y voy llegando a la una
¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
Nena frótame con vicbaporu como me hacía mamá
¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
Ni dormido me olvido de mi identidad
¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
El hombre bueno no teme, no teme a la oscuridad
¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
¡Ea! Y no me falta más nada

(Coro sin lo que canta Residente)
Esa pared del barrio y eso es pa? que te asombres
Cincuenta años más tarde todavía guarda mi nombre

Aquí no se perdona al tonto majadero
Aquí de nada vale tu apellido, tu dinero
Se respeta el carácter de la gente con que andamos
Nacimos de muchas madres pero aquí sólo hay hermanos
Y ese mar frente a mi casa te juro que es verdad
Como el de La Perla aunque yo esté en Panamá
Y sobre el horizonte veo una nube viajera dibujando la cara del gran Maelo Ribera
Celebra esta reunión compadre.
¿Qué te parece esta combinación de Rubencito y Calle 13?

¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
Pero eso no resuelve el blanco sospechoso
¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
La noche no absuelve al verbo mentiroso
¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
Si te perdiste hermano, encuéntrate a ti mismo
¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
Vente aquí a Panamá y contribuye al turismo
¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
Mil gracias residente, mil gracias visitante
¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
Píllate tribuna en Argentina sigue echando pa?lante
¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
Con Lilia la letra va pa? lo alto a ver si pasa el filtro
¡La noche me sirve de sabana!
Cumplida la terea se retira el ministro

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Biografia

Calle 13 are the hip-hop duo Residente and Visitante, half-brothers from Puerto Rico. Their band is something of a family business, with vocal contributions from their sister PG-13 and Residente’s mother, Flor Joglar de Gracia, who is an actress.

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