We were born to endure what the body sustains

We endure what came and we endure what is coming

We endure even if we have the seconds counted

Our body can last up to fifteen minutes hanging

We endure whippings, having both arms cut off

Fractures in any bone, three weeks in a cast

We endure the urge to go to the bathroom all the time

To see Halley’s Comet, you have to endure seventy years

We endure school, college, institute

At dinner time we hold in our burps

The people of Burundi continue to endure famine

We endured three days to reach the Moon

We endure the cold of the Arctic, the heat of the Tropics

We endure microscopic viruses with antibodies

We endure storms, hurricanes, bad weather

We endured Nagasaki, we endured Hiroshima

Even if we don’t want to, we endure new laws

We endure that today kings still exist

We punish the humble and endure the cruel

We endure being slaves because of our skin color

We endure capitalism, communism, socialism, feudalism

We even endure stupidity

We endure the guilty when he plays innocent

We endure our fucking president every year

For what was and for what could be

For what there is, for what may be missing

For whatever comes and for this moment

To toast for endurance

For what was and for what could be

For what there is, for what may be missing

For whatever comes and for this moment

Raise the glass and toast to endurance

To toast for endurance

We endure any type of pain even if it hurts us

We endure Pinochet, we endure Videla

Franco, Mao, Ríos, Mon, Mucabe, Hitler, Idi Amin

Stalin, Bush, Truman, Ariel Sharon and Hussein

We endured more than twenty concentration camps

When you swim underwater you hold your breath

To build a wall, we hold the bricks

Those who don’t smoke endure the smell of cigarettes.

We put up with Monsanto infecting our food

We endure Agent Orange and pesticides

When we sail, we endure seasickness

We endure minimum wage and unemployment

We endured the Malvinas and the British invasion

In the city of Pompeii we endured volcanic lava

And within the logic of our humanity

We believe the lie and no one can endure the truth

For what was and for what could be

For what there is, for what may be missing

For whatever comes and for this moment

Raise the glass and toast to endurance

To toast for endurance

We put up with the atheist, the Mormon, the Christian

To the Buddhist, to the Jew, we put up with the pagan

We put up with the one who sells bullets and the one who shoots them

We endure the death of Lennon, that of Víctor Jara

We endured many wars: Vietnam, the Cold War

The Hundred Years War, the Six Days War

Let them endure the revenge, we come to retaliate

Today our liver can endure whatever the bar invites

For what was and for what could be

For what there is, for what may be missing

For whatever comes and for this moment

To toast for endurance

For what was and for what could be

For what there is, for what may be missing

For whatever comes and for this moment

Raise the glass and toast to endurance

Let’s toast to endurance!