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