[Verse 1: Mexico City chilango male MC, proud chilango rasp over huge live drums and the lush strings] Twenty years at the arena they been callin' me the Silver Hawk Mask laced up the back so tight that I can barely talk Neighbors think I sell insurance, at the market I'm a ghost Nobody on my street knows who goes flyin' off the post Mijo used to ask me "Papa, where you go on Friday nights?" I'd say "Workin', mijo," kiss his head and turn out the lights He'd hear the Hawk on the radio, the whole place goin' wild Never knew the man they screamed for was the one who tucked his child I been beaten, I been bloodied, I been carried out on a door But the mask stayed on my face, guey, every time I hit the floor [Hook: chilango MC, sung and rapped big over the strings and the huge drums] You can take my belt, you can take my crown But the mask don't come off, not when I'm goin' down Every bone they broke, I put it back in place They can have my name, but they never get my face [Verse 2: chilango MC, harder, the requinto guitar cutting through] Now I'm forty-nine and slower, and the young boys want my place Kid Veneno calls me out, he wants the mask, he wants my face Mask against mask, the poster says, the loser shows the crowd Twenty years of hidin' gone with one hand pullin' down Mijo's grown now, and I bought him a ticket in the row Right up at the ring apron, and he still doesn't know Neta, I can feel him lookin' at the man up on the ropes Like he's watchin' someone else's father carryin' his hopes And I want to tell him, mijo, it was me, it was always me But the Hawk don't talk in public, so I let him watch and see [Hook: chilango MC, bigger, the strings swelling under the hook] You can take my belt, you can take my crown But the mask don't come off, not when I'm goin' down Every bone they broke, I put it back in place They can have my name, but they never get my face [Verse 3: chilango MC, the strings at full, the drums enormous] Third fall, I climb the top rope with my knees like broken glass Hawk dive, the whole arena on its feet, and I come down fast One, two, three, Veneno's sittin' up and pullin' off his mask He unlaces it and hands it to me, didn't have to ask Then I walk to the front row with the lights inside my eyes Turn my back on every camera, kneel down to my boy's size And I take the mask off slow, guey, so it's only him who sees Orale, now he's cryin', and he's laughin' on his knees So I lace it on his head, pull it tight the way it goes Now the Hawk is in the front row, and the old man's just in clothes [Outro: chilango MC, name reveal, plain and close, the strings ringing under him] My name is Ernesto Ruiz, and I drive the number nine bus And I was the Silver Hawk, mijo, and now the Hawk is all of us [End]
