Hoy Gano Yo

"Hoy Gano Yo"
Song by WarCry from the album WarCry
Released 2002
Genre Power metal
Length 6:00
Label Jaus/Avispa Music
Producer Víctor García and Alberto Ardines

Hoy Gano Yo (en: "Today I Win") is the tenth track from WarCry's self titled debut album. It's one of the bands best-known songs, played nearly in every concert often as closing track, due to its lyrics about the way heavy metal is seen in the society. "Hoy Gano Yo" is featured on live album Directo A La Luz on both DVD and CD versions.[1] The song also appears on Finnish music video game Frets on Fire.[2]

Meaning

On the band's official website Víctor García stated that the song talks about heavy metal, and about the "heavies", with a clear message, "one for all and all for one". He said the main purpose of the song is "to appeal for unity" among the metal enthusiasts, stating also that "sometimes total victory is an accumulation of partial victories, like opening a bar to play only metal music [...] to do things to make heavy metal more important in the society."[3]

Hoy Gano Yo makes reference to how ignored is heavy metal on these times, in lyrics like:

El periódico no habló, del grupo que tocó ayer
El heavy no interesa
Nada en la televisión, esa es su intención
Creer que ya no existimos
Ya no nos pueden acusar
De las drogas y demás, lo saben bien
The newspaper didn't mention the band that played yesterday
Heavy metal doesn't interest them
Nothing on television, that's their intention
To believe we don't exist anymore
They can no longer blame us
About drugs and such things, they know it well

On the main chorus appears what García said it was an "appeal for unity"

Pero al ponerse el sol
Habrá algún concierto
Y mi gente allí se reunirá
Al ponerse el sol
Todas las almas puras
Oirán acordes de metal
But at sundown
There will be a concert
And my people will unite there
At sundown
All the pure souls
Will listen to metal chords

Personnel

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Notes

  1. ↑ Directo A La Luz DVD/CD
  2. ↑ Hoy Gano Yo on Frets on Fire Youtube.com Retrieved March 4, 2007
  3. ↑ Hoy Gano Yo WarCry.as Retrieved April 17, 2002

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