Oye Muchacha Lyrics - Real Women Have Curves

Oye Muchacha

[CARMEN, spoken]
You think I didn't have big dreams when I was young, too?
Oye, mi papá was a mariachi in México
Y one time, he caught me dressing up in his jacket and playing his guitar
Shh, he beat the crap out of me
Because he didn't want me to run off and be disappointed

[ANA, spoken]
So your dreams got crushed, and now you're crushing mine?

[CARMEN, spoken]
No

[CARMEN]
I didn't want to break your heart
The way that my heart had been broken
But [wicked?] dreams are meant to die
We have to learn to let them go

Mija, listen, listen to me
Mija, l?t me try to help you see

Oye, muchacha

[ANA, spoken]
What?
[CARMEN]
Nothing is wrong with th? life that you have
Oye, muchacha

[ANA, spoken]
What?

[CARMEN]
No seas ingrata, it's not so bad

[ANA]
So you've said, I know

[CARMEN]
Oye, muchacha

[ANA, spoken]
¿Qué?

[CARMEN]
Mija, I'm just trying to spare you the pain
You will always look like us
Can't you see, cómo nos ven
You can marry a gringo, go to Columbia
But you'll never be one of them
[ANA]
Every day, you've made it clear
How lucky that you had me here
But what does being lucky mean
If, if I can't do better

[CARMEN]
¿Qué better?

[ANA]
More than just sewing and signing your checks
Not a future you've already built
But, Ana, your daughter is stuck underwater
Drowning in your guilt

[CARMEN]
Oye, muchacha

[ANA, spoken]
What?

[ANA]
Don't you get tired of being afraid?

[CARMEN]
Oye, muchacha
[ANA, spoken]
Fine

[ANA]
I'll never move out, and I'll die underpaid

[CARMEN, spoken]
Hija de la chinga, va ven acá

[CARMEN]
Oye, muchacha

[ANA]
Even a mom would have to agree
That you'll never change your mind
And there's nothing I can do
So, I'll marry a gringo, I'll go to Columbia
I'll never be one of you

[ESTELA, spoken]
I heard yelling, I knew you were home
My dress looks good on you

[CARMEN, spoken]
Y tú

[ANA, spoken]
Amá

[CARMEN, spoken]
You knew about Columbia and you kept it from me

[ANA, spoken]
Estela, please, she listens to you, she doesn't hear anything I—

[CARMEN, spoken]
Your sister thinks she can just—

[ESTELA, spoken]
"Hi, Estela! How are you holding up? How's the order coming along?"

[CARMEN, spoken]
Not now, mija—

[ANA, spoken]
See, she doesn't see us, she doesn't hear—

[ESTELA, spoken]
You two are exhausting

[ESTELA]
How can you both be so blind?
Both the same, two of a kind
So stubborn, and so selfish
Always me, me, me, me
Well, I'm the one with more to lose
In a life I didn't get to choose
I don't get second chances
This one's all I've got

[CARMEN]
That's why we need her at the factory
So she can stay and help this family

[ESTELA]
Did you forget that when we first arrived
It was me that helped us all get by
But now you act like if she wasn't here
All that I built myself would disappear

[ANA]
Don't be so dramatic, that's not what she's saying

[ESTELA]
Then why does she want you to stay?

[CARMEN]
To keep us together, it won't be forever

[ANA]
Do I even have a choice?

[CARMEN]
Well, we don't have a choice, and that's why we need you

[ESTELA]
[God's?] favorite child?

[ANA]
Do you think it's what I want?

[ANA, CARMEN, & ESTELA]
Oye, muchacha

[ANA & ESTELA]
Why's it that nothing I do makes you proud?

[CARMEN]
Oye, muchacha

[ANA & ESTELA, spoken]
What?

[CARMEN]
You'll wake up the neighborhood screaming so loud

[ANA & ESTELA, spoken]
Amá, it's you who's shouting

[ANA, CARMEN, & ESTELA]
Oye, muchacha

[ANA & ESTELA]
Why don't you listen for once in your life

[ANA]
Amá, I know you lost your dream
And I know how bad that feels

[CARMEN]
Ana, I hear you

[ANA]
Do you, amá?

[CARMEN]
But what if we need you?

[RAÚL, spoken]
Carmecita? Pancha just called. You got a new worker from Guatemala, Itzel? La Migra took her, at the bus stop

[ANA, spoken]
Oh no, Itzel
We have to do something

[CARMEN]
La Migra knows where we all take the bus
They'll come again, they're gonna come for us

[ANA, FACTORY LADIES, COMPANY]
She's all alone (La Migra knows where we all take the bus) (Oye, muchacha)
Do I even have a choice? (They'll come again, they're gonna come for us) (Oye, muchacha)
I have do something, I'm going to find her (La Migra knows where we all take the bus) (Oye, muchacha)
I'm going to find her (They'll come again, they're gonna come for us) (Oye, muchacha)

[CARMEN, spoken]
No

[CARMEN, spoken]
We're sticking together
No one is leaving
And that is the final word

[COMPANY]
Oye, muchacha
Oye, muchacha
Oye, muchacha
Oye, muchacha
Last Update: June, 18th 2025