If you don’t risk anything\nYou get nothing\nSo I will walk away from danger\nTo face many more\n\nI will pay the coyote\nLose almost everything\nBut if I don’t risk anything\nI’ll get nothing at all\n\nI will cross the mountains\nPlantations and streams\nLose all on my back\nBut I will walk on\n\nMy stomach will be hungry\nMy body sore\nBut better to risk it all\nThan to stay captive in the world\n\nI will face humiliation \nAbuse and shame\nBetter to risk it all\nThan be a nameless grave\n\nWhen I cross the Rio Grande\nI will bow at your feet\nI am yet another here \nYearning to breathe free\n\nI’ve got to make \nThis life worthwhile\nThis precious life of mine\nIs worth risking to save