Manu Chao: “Me Llaman Calle” (2007)
If you don’t know how to pronounce the name of French-born Spanish musician Manu Chao, you can just call him by his birth name, José Manuel Tomás Arturo Chao Ortega, which is nearly as long as the list of languages he sings in–French, Spanish, English, Italian, Arabic, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, and Greek.
His multicultural musical mix swings between party, politics and protest. But even when the song is sad, the music celebrates.
Translation:
They Call Me Street
They call me street/stepping on the concrete/the rebellious and so lost girl
they call me street/street of the night/street of the day
they call me street/I’m going so tiredly/I’m going so vacantly/like a little machine for the grand city
they call me street/I get into your car/they call me street/I should be happy
tired street, empty street/of so much love
I’m going to the street below/I’m going to the street above/I wont back down/not even for life
they call me street/and that is my pride/I know one day I’ll arrive/I know one day my luck will come
one day it’ll look for me/at the exit a good man/giving his life without paying/my heart isn’t for rent
they call me street(2x)
suffering street/depressed street/from so much love
they call me street/most quiet street/they call me street without a future/they call me street without an exit/they call me street/most quiet street
for the women of life/rise below/sink above/like a little machine for the grand city
they call me street (2x)
suffered street/depressed street/from so much love
they call me street/most quiet street/they always call me/no matter what the hour
they call me beautiful/always at the wrong time/they call me bitch/and princess
they call me street/it’s my nobility/they call me street/suffered street, lost street/of so much love
Every Moment Has A Song 