Upuan [Seat] [English translation]

You (po*) who's sitting down

Why don't you try to get up?

Maybe you'll see, and maybe you'll see

My real condition

(You know,) It goes like this...

Anybody home?** Are you there inside that

Huge house and spacious backyard

Surrounded by tall walls

and expensive cars in line,

(by) Guards who are always whispering.

There's no wedding but many are in barongs(Filipino suits)

Even if rain pours harder, the roof has no hole

Plates and spoons that do not know burnt rice

And the rice is as white as milk in a carton box

And even if it's not Christmas, there's ham on the table

How nice it would be to live in a house like that

They even say that it's there where you will find

The person who owns a chair

That when opporunity is there, it's fought over

That's why he won't let go (of it)

If only I'll see him/her, I'm going to yell at him/her.

You (po) who's sitting down

Why don't you try to get up?

Maybe you'll see, and maybe you'll see

My real situation

Excuse me (po)

To the one who's seated,

Do you know our pantakal(measuring cup) for rice is not full

(that)The walls of our house is a patchwork of yero***

And at night it's too hot that it melts ice---

that we can't afford to buy to put in our drink--

Boiled water in an old coal-burnt teapot--

Using firewood that's just drifting in open canals,

That in the morning, our bathroom serves as our kitchen

(that) My mother has a treasured cauldron--

that's used when my father gets a pay

But it's still very insufficient--

A viand of dried herring and salt

A dollar is to suffice for the whole day

I don't know if there's really lot of barriers

Or the walls are too high

Or your feigning blindness

Even with your tons of money

No doctor can make your eyes clearer

So..

Don't be too obvious

Stone, Stone in the sky****

Whoever gets hit should not get mad

stone, stone in the sky

Whoever gets hit..

don't be too obvious.