Bayad Ko [English translation]

[Noel]

Sir driver please drop us over there on the side

I will go down, so here's my pay

Sir driver please drop us over there on the side

I will go down, so here's my pay

[Gloc-9]

Mang Berto who got in from the corner of the street

and this is the start of the stories

He has an only daughter who's name is Luisa, a student

Her education is being worked hard on to escape poverty

One night on March, around 8 o'clock

*Mang Berto went home early

Carrying a plastic of *Pancit and a sponge cake

joyful even at rare occasions

Tomorrow she will graduate on the course that she took

his most beloved daughter Luisa

There was supposedly a new journey for the both of them

however, is our community really filled with bad luck?

Because she was found dead under the bridge

Luisa's dreams were also washed away

[Noel]

Sir driver please drop us over there on the side

I will go down, so here's my pay

Sir driver please drop us over there on the side

I will go down, so here's my pay

[Gloc-9]

When we passed by Quezon Avenue, *ate Marilou got in

Twenty four years old, no education attained, her child is in ICU

Once the clock ticks at 11pm, she's filled with makeup

She's on the sidewalk and waving over the cars

Even two forties she will grab it, to use the money to buy medicine

So she can cure his only son, even just one day extension of her child's life

Tomorrow night there has been a lot of months she's been doing this

She has found nothing, she can't do anything

You can tell on her face the struggles but her small child is irreplaceable

Even if she's aware that she's infected with disease

Just for her child, she will do it with eyes closed

[Noel]

Sir driver please drop us over there on the side

I will go down, so here's my pay

Sir driver please drop us over there on the side

I will go down, so here's my pay

[Gloc-9]

There's a kid on the foot-board of the jeep

Six years old, his name is Benito

All day he had been working

to shine shoes and to recycle bottles and newspapers

just so his three siblings can eat

Five, four, two year olds and a baby are a weight on his shoulders already

The responsibilities of his father were transferred when he got in jail

and their mother abandoned them

He tried to prevent his mom from going but she shoved him away

Until the youngest sibling got sick and in the wagon,

his breathing stopped

Today he can't seem to realize, whatever it is the future has for Benito

he became immune because of the pain and the endings of what had happened

He's sniffing an *adhesive rugby, he got off around Malate

[Noel]

Sir driver please drop us over there on the side

I will go down, so here's my pay

Sir driver please drop us over there on the side

I will go down, so here's my pay

No matter what difficulties there is to come for us

Let's simply call *mamang driver and we will reach our destination

No matter what difficulties there is to come for us

Let's simply call *mamang driver and we will reach our destination

Driver stop here

Driver stop here

Driver stop here

Driver stop here

Driver stop here

We will reach our destination

Driver stop here

Driver stop here

Driver stop here

Driver stop here

Driver stop here

We will reach our destination