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He tried so hard to keep her boundShe was bought and sold in some Norteno townAll those chains and dowries locked her inHer grandmother would say it's just a little sinFor 10 long years she lived as if a slavePinned beneath his thumb in the United StatesSolitary nightsShe was a victim of unfettered free trade, he beat her daily, kept her locked awayuntil the day she was to be replaced, when she met him in the kitchenand beat him to death with a table legSolitary nightsRosa went and turned herself inthinking that she would be treated fairly in the land of the freeThe judge he put her away for life and then someAnd Rosa found the chains they put on her were longerthan the ones she freed herself fromSo she waitsand she counts the daysNever knowing what it's like to get away Aus Songtexte Mania