- published: 21 Oct 2013
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2 Minutos or Dos Minutos are a punk rock band from Valentín Alsina, Buenos Aires, Argentina. They have released ten albums since first receiving a contract by Phonogram in 1994. The band have toured mostly around Latin America.
Singer Walter Velásquez first met bass player Aidnajan and guitarist Pedrozo at a Casanovas concert in 1987. The group they formed largely played the local circuit in the early 1990s. In 1992, the band participated in a collective album produced by an independent label called Mentes Abiertas, with the songs "Ya No Sos Igual" and "Arrebato". It caught the attention of the local Polygram A&R men who would sign the band soon after.
1994 would be the studio album debut for 2 Minutos. Valentín Alsina was named in honor of their hometown, and it turned into a bigger hit than even the band or the label had expected on the back of the hit single "Ya no sos Igual" ("You're not the same anymore"), about a corner store clerk whom they found out was also a Federal Police officer. A controversy erupted however between the band and "Pil Trafa", a member of Los Violadores, with Pil Trafa accusing 2 Minutos of having "un-punk" lyrics about beer, football, and street fighting, which he considered those of bored, middle-class 90s suburban kids.
I can't figure out, figure out, what it is, what it is, where it is, where it is, I can't
Woke up in a daze off a half hour's sleep
With the drool on the pillow and my dick stuck to my bedsheet
Thinking, how am I gonna change the world today
I'm staring at the roaches sitting in the ashtray
Giving up ain't the way, I can guarantee
If you apply yourself to life like silly putty
Everybody, even if you ugly (huh?!)
You got a chance in this mutherfucker to be somebody
Don't let nobody stand in the way of what you want
And stop believing all the lies and the shit you've been taught
Even if you try, you can say you did
Instead of living your life always wondering what would happen
You can be the captain of your own enterprise - USS Realize
It's up to you, to make the change but you don't
And I can't figure out why you won't
I can't figure out, figure out, what it is, what it is, where it is, where it is, I can't
Can you help me now?
I'm sitting down and everybody with me is standing and looking around
I blacked out for a second and some really weird shit just happened, it was like a camera
flashing
In my mind there's some really strange shit going on
But I just go with it, hope nobody notices it
I'm cool with everybody, everbody's cool with me
But if I don't know ya, I don't wanna know ya, that's cool just let it be
Infatuated with axes and sharp knives, decapitated from the infection of long lives, somebody
better tell me what the problem is, fucking shut your mouth, and just tell us how to start the shit
Put me in the dark ?? and give the underground a purpose and start a moshpit right in the mall,
and beat the shit outta each other til the last one falls
I can't figure out, figure out, what it is, what it is, where it is, where it is, I can't
Raise around the world that rotates
Cause we living everyday in growing and changing fate.
And I don't recognize or comprehend the word quit
Because it's not in my vocabulary, I don't understand that shit
And even if it all went bad
We will pick up the pieces and continue the way we always had
Cause life is a situation test
Whether you pass or fail, gotta always do your best
My momma told me I'm a half a buck short
And my pops is the reason I'm addicted to Newports
Sitting on the dock of the bay
I'm watching time pass by, cause today's tomorrow's yesterday
Get up, get out, get right, get tight
The weed lights, hand it to the left homie all night
I ain't the right, I ain't the wrong, I ain't the way out
I'm just escaping from this realistic playground