An Immigration Anthem? Inesperado Adiós – words and music by Alice Bag
(Female lead)
We didn’t get to say goodbye
They didn’t give you time
You were flying
like a leaf in the wind
You left home just
like any other day
I didn’t suspect
I had already lost you
But this unexpected goodbye
It is a punishment for two
The one who is gone
and the one who stays behind
And I feel like screaming
I am already tired of enduring
This injustice is killing us
(Male lead)
Under a window with steel bars
I see the stars and tell them my desire
“To return home to the ones I love,
to live without borders like birds in flight”
but this unexpected goodbye …In this place we called home
we were always just shadows in the rubble
with blood and sweat
we gave what we had
it was right behind our shoulders
I feel like the sun is refusing to shine
and my world is freezing
For this unexpected goodbye …