Cuscutlan

There is a song by Frente called Cuscutlan that I have been listening to a lot lately (well it's cuscutlan or cuscatlan, can't work out which spelling is correct). Despite it being an old song, it's lyrics have just seemed really relevent lately. Cuscutlan is what El Salvador was called before it was conquered and it is a song about that takeover and what's happened in El Salavador (Frente are Australian, I can't quite remember why they wrote a song about Cuscutlan). Despite the age of the song, I quite like the music, and I recommend having a listen to it if you can. Here are the lyrics:

***Cuscutlan*** by Frente
i love my country
but it wears a uniform
it speaks with foreign guns
in the background you can almost hear
the sound of intervention

and i don't know when liberty fell
but we rang every mission bell
we rang them loud and clearly
to a world that wouldn't listen

i don't want to die
i'm as innocent as anybody
i don't even know how to spell
revolutionary
jesus in the sky
the bullets in the guns
you don't even know what we
mean by repression

blood is the colour of the sunset
you walked into the darkness
i did not hear your last breath
there will not be an inquest
this is not human interest

we danced the dirt with
surrender for our drumbeat
we danced for the balance sheet
died for the kind of lasting peace
that pleases the world policeman

and fatherland raped motherhood
and told her it was for the global good
and now we ring the mission bell
to warn their children

and i don't want to die
i'm as innocent as anybody
i don't even know how to spell
revolutionary
jesus in the sky
the bullets in the guns
you don't even know what we
mean by repression

blood is the colour of the sunset
you walked into the darkness
i did not hear your last breath
there will not be an inquest
this is not human interest
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