The Message Lyrics

Mister Intendent
By the power
That gives me
The number eighteen
Of the article eighty two
Of the state constitution
And the law forth of the present
I've resolved and decree
That the goverment of Chile
Declares the war to the goverment of Peru
The minister of exterior relations
Will comunicate to the allied countries
This declaration
Exposing justified motives of this war
And the interior minister
Will deliver the news with the needed solemnity

Santiago April Fifteen
Year Eighteen seventy Nine

Nothing will erase the history
Nothing will return the lives
Nothing will change what's done
Nothing will be sufficient