Brukdown is a genre of Belizean music. Its best-known performer and innovator, Wilfred Peters is regarded as a Belizean national icon. The word brukdown may come from broken down calypso, referring to the similarities between brukdown and Trinidadian calypso music; the presence of large numbers of Jamaicans in Belize also led to an influence from mento music.
Brukdown is a Kriol mixture of European harmonies (Accordion), African syncopated rhythms and call-and-response format and lyrical elements from the native peoples of the area. In its modern form, brukdown is rural folk music, associated especially with the logging towns of the Belizean interior. Traditional instruments include the banjo, guitar, drums, dingaling bell, accordion and a donkey's jawbone played by running a stick up and down the teeth, and also a grater. Brukdown remains a rural, rarely recorded genre. This genre of music has primarily African elements, while the only significant European element, is the Accordion.
Dicen que la vida te da sorpresas
Y esa sorpresa me la diste tu
Fuera de mi vista materialista
Ya no se de ti, I love you
Me da pena confesar que te quiero mas y mas
No se que hacer, I miss you
Pero tengo que entender que tu no sabes querer
Eeh, eeh, ojala y no huberas sido tan materialista
Eeh eeh, supe que salias conmigo porque soy artista, que lista
Te di mi corazon y me diste tu palabra
Te enamoraste de mi dinero y mi fama
Te di mi corazon y me diste tu palabra
Fue una mentira, ah, materialista, come on
Ay mujer, y yo que pensaba que
Que tu eras una maravilla, tarde me di
Cuenta que eras una pesadilla
Ya no se que hacer, I love you
Me da pena confesar que te quiero mas y mas
I've got to say, I need you
Y tu me hiciste pensar que estaba en primer lugar
Eeh eeh, ojala y no hubieras sido tan materialista
Eeh eeh, supe que salias conmigo porque soy artista, que lista
Te di mi corazon y me diste tu palabra
Te enamoraste de mi dinero y mi fama
Te di mi corazon y me diste tu palabra
Fue una mentira, ah, materialista damn
Get out of my life, ya no te quiero ver mas
Get out of my life, girl, eeh eeh
Ojala y no hubiera sido tan materialista, eeh eeh