THE F!RST COMMANDMENT

(Lehen manamenduya *) 

lyrics by xabi makulu

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"You're shorter than my skirt."
Seen on Miracruz Street in Donostia

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Worship your hands

and your mouth too

appreciate your whole body

and bless it

 

Love your belly

Love your two feet

Love your eyes

Love your two ears

 

Does anyone choose your clothes?

music to listen to?

who decides your figure?

let no one decide your character!

 

don't let anyone in your house.

be yourself

strong in that

be yourself

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time goes by

and the wrinkles on our bodies

are dancing
on this desert of our body

with infinite sand

but we go

with the oases inside
breaking the moulds that stop us
recovering the time they steal from us
(by Komando Braga)

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Don't let them control your thinking

don't let your feelings be hijacked

remove the colonizers

out of the temple!

 

Be yourself

strong in that

be yourself

you're in it.

defend your house

before your father's home**

 

Worship your hands

and your mouth, too

appreciates your whole body

and bless it

 

Love your hands

love your mouth

love your belly, love your two feet

love your eyes, love your two ears

love your hands, love your mouth

love your mind, love your sex.

 

*Linguae Vasconum Primitiae: “Hamar manamenduyac”

** From Gabriel Aresti's poem "Nire aitaren etxea" 

(I will defend my father's home)