Cuscatlin Lyrics

Cuscatlin lyrics

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 

 for 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