Who Will Survive in America – Letras en Español

• Por: Kanye West
• Álbum: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

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Us living as we do upside down

And the new word to have is revolution

People don't even want to hear the preacher

Spill or spiel because God's whole card has been thoroughly piqued

And America is now blood and tears instead of milk and honey

The youngsters who were programmed to continue

Fucking up, woke up one night digging

Paul Revere and Nat Turner as the good guys

America stripped for bed and we had not all yet closed our eyes

The signs of Truth were tattooed across our open ended vagina

We learned to our amazement the untold tale of scandal

Two long centuries buried in the musty vault

Hosed down daily with a gagging perfume

America was a bastard, the illegitimate daughter of the mother country

Whose legs were then spread around the world

And a rapist known as freedom, free doom

Democracy, liberty, and justice were revolutionary code names

That preceded the bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling, bubbling

In the mother country's crotch

What does Webster say about soul?

All I want is a good home and a wife

And a children and some food to feed them every night

After all is said and done, build a new route to China if they'll have you

Who will survive in America?

Who will survive in America?

Who will survive in America?

Who will survive in America?

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Vocabulario clave

Vocabulario	Significados
Revolution /ˌrevəˈluːʃn/ B2	noun - Cambio violento o radical en las instituciones políticas de una sociedad.
Preacher /ˈpriːtʃər/ C1	noun - Persona que predica la religión.
Survive /sərˈvaɪv/ B1	verb - Sobrevivir, seguir viviendo después de un peligro.
Democracy /dɪˈmɒkrəsi/ B2	noun - Sistema de gobierno donde el poder reside en el pueblo.
Bastard /ˈbæstəd/ C2	noun - Persona nacida fuera del matrimonio.
Liberty /ˈlɪbəti/ B2	noun - Estado de ser libre, libertad.
Illegitimate /ˌɪlɪˈdʒɪtɪmət/ C1	adjective - Ilegítimo, no reconocido legalmente.
Scandal /ˈskændl/ B2	noun - Acción que causa indignación o deshonra.
Justice /ˈdʒʌstɪs/ B1	noun - Principio moral de dar a cada uno lo que le corresponde.
Tattooed /tæˈtuːd/ B1	verb - Marcado con tinta bajo la piel.

Estructuras gramaticales clave

• Us living as we do upside down

  ➔ Frase participial como modificador adverbial.

  ➔ "Us living" funciona como un sujeto separado que introduce la situación.

• People don't even want to hear the preacher spill or spiel

  ➔ Verbo en infinitivo tras el verbo 'want'.

  ➔ La estructura "want + to + verb" se utiliza aquí para expresar deseo de realizar una acción.

• The youngsters who were programmed to continue

  ➔ Oración de relativo en voz pasiva.

  ➔ "Who were programmed" modifica a "youngsters", usando la pasiva "be + participio pasado".

• America was a bastard, the illegitimate daughter of the mother country

  ➔ Frase apositiva.

  ➔ "The illegitimate daughter..." renombra o define a "a bastard".

• Whose legs were then spread around the world

  ➔ Oración de relativo con el pronombre posesivo 'whose'.

  ➔ 'Whose' actúa como posesivo, conectando las piernas de la hija con la madre patria.

• Democracy, liberty, and justice were revolutionary code names

  ➔ Concordancia sujeto-verbo (plural).

  ➔ Varios sujetos (Democracy, liberty, and justice) requieren el verbo en plural "were".

• Build a new route to China if they'll have you

  ➔ Primer condicional.

  ➔ Expresa una posibilidad real usando 'if' + presente + futuro/modal.

• Who will survive in America?

  ➔ Tiempo futuro interrogativo.

  ➔ El modal "will" se coloca antes del sujeto "who" para formar una pregunta.