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Breakfast woodsmoke on the breeze -- |
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On the cliff the U.S. Embassy |
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Frowns out over Managua like Dracula's tower. |
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The kid who guards Fonseca's tomb |
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Cradles a beat-up submachine gun -- |
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At age fifteen he's a veteran of four years of war |
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Proud to pay his dues |
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He knows who turns the screws |
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Baby face and old man's eyes |
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Blue lagoon and flowering trees -- |
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Bullet-packed masaya streets |
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Full of the ghosts of the heroes of Monimbo |
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Women of the town laundry |
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Work and gossip and laugh at me -- |
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They don't believe I'll ever send them the pictures I took. |
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For every scar on a wall |
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There's a hole in someone's heart |
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Where a loved one's memory lives |
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In the flash of this moment |
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You're the best of what we are -- |
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Don't let them stop you now |
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Nicaragua |
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Sandino in his tom mix hat |
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Gazes from billboards and coins |
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"Sandino vive en la lucha por la paz" |
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Sandino of the shining dream |
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Who stood up to the U.S. marines -- |
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Now Washington panics at U2 shots of "Cuban-style" latrines |
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In the flash of this moment |
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You're the best of what we are -- |
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Don't let them stop you now |
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Nicaragua |
