Burnzy’s Peru Jam

The daily grind: Heading to work in the morning. 

This is part of my playlist that I listen to on my Iphone every day, when I am on the bus early in the morning and on my way home from work.

I use it to escape the daily routine, but I cannot understand most of it. Still, a little bit more occasionally I reach a breakthrough with a word, even if it’s only to tell it apart from another noise.

 

• Bella (Wolfine): Beautiful

…I went to kill my heartbreak

In the rain, in the streets, homeless

Thinking about who did you go home to, woman

What did I do to you now that you’re not coming back…

 

The mural hidden in the back room of a vegetarian restaurant in Trujillo.

• Tres (Libido): Three

...Love me, lie to me, touch me, 

Think of me, miss me, hold me…

After a day without you, I can die, 

Tell me I lost my reason. 

 

• La Ruta del Tentempie (Charly Garcia): The Route of the Tentempie

…And I will not wait

And I will not run

And I will not win

And I will not lose…

I asked my students to write down questions that they had in class for them to research. This was one question a student came up with. 

• Estadio Azteca (Andres Calamaro): Aztec Stadium

…When I was a child

and I first went to the Aztec stadium,

I froze up, overwhelmed to see the giant.

When I was an adult, the same happened to me,

but I already had frozen up long before…

• Mayores (Becky. G. and Bad Bunny): Greater

…I like them older

Those we call gentlemen, 

The ones who open doors and send flowers…

Friday night drinks. 

• Hojarascas (Kraken): Fallen Leaves

…I’m not a puppet that gets tangled in your fingers,

No longer pretend, 

Because I feel more compassion…

 

• De Musica Ligera (Soda Stereo): Of Light Music

…I will not send (her)

Ashes of roses 

Nor shall I avoid 

A secret contact…

The sunset at Huanchaco beach.

 

• Matador (Los Fabulosos Cadillacs): Matador

…If we talk about killing, my words themselves kill

It hasn’t been very long since the Leon Santillan fell

And now I know that at any moment I am going to be next.

Ahh matador…. Ahh matador.. Where are you matador?…

 

• No Me Dejan Salir (Charly Garcia): They Do Not Let Me Out

I’m green, they will not let me out

I’m green, they will not let me out. 

I can not start, I can not leave, 

I can not feel love, that feeling….