Bruce Cockburn - Nicaragua lyrics
[Bruce Cockburn - Nicaragua lyrics]
Breakfast woodsmoke on the breeze
On the cliff the US embassy
Frowns out over Managua like Dracula's tower
The kid who guards Fonseca's tomb
Cradles a beat-up submachine gun
At age fifteen he's a veteran
Of four years of war proud to pay his dues
He knows who turns the screws
Baby face and old man's eyes
Blue lagoon and flowering trees
Bullet-pocked Masaya streets
Full of the ghosts of the heroes of Monimbó
Women of the town laundry
Work and gossip and laugh at me
They don't believe I'll ever send
Them the pictures I took
For every scar on a wall
There's a hole in someone's heart
Where a loved one's memory lives
In the flash of this moment
You're the best of what we are
Don't let them stop you now nicaragua
Sandino in his Tom Mix hat
Gazes from billboards and coins
"Sandino vive en la lucha por la paz"
Sandino of the shining dream
Who stood up to US marines
Now Washington panics at U-2
Shots of "Cuban-style" latrines
They peek from planes eavesdrop from ships
Voyeurs licking moistened lips 'cause
In the flash of this moment
You're the best of what we are
Don't let them stop you now nicaragua
In the flash of this moment
You're the best of what we are
Don't let them stop you now nicaragua
On the cliff the US embassy
Frowns out over Managua like Dracula's tower
The kid who guards Fonseca's tomb
Cradles a beat-up submachine gun
At age fifteen he's a veteran
Of four years of war proud to pay his dues
He knows who turns the screws
Baby face and old man's eyes
Blue lagoon and flowering trees
Bullet-pocked Masaya streets
Full of the ghosts of the heroes of Monimbó
Women of the town laundry
Work and gossip and laugh at me
They don't believe I'll ever send
Them the pictures I took
For every scar on a wall
There's a hole in someone's heart
Where a loved one's memory lives
In the flash of this moment
You're the best of what we are
Don't let them stop you now nicaragua
Sandino in his Tom Mix hat
Gazes from billboards and coins
"Sandino vive en la lucha por la paz"
Sandino of the shining dream
Who stood up to US marines
Now Washington panics at U-2
Shots of "Cuban-style" latrines
They peek from planes eavesdrop from ships
Voyeurs licking moistened lips 'cause
In the flash of this moment
You're the best of what we are
Don't let them stop you now nicaragua
In the flash of this moment
You're the best of what we are
Don't let them stop you now nicaragua