![]() ![]() The people in El Salvador mostly live around mountans. This is probably a fire, probably a fire in one of the Salvadoran bushes, right after a bomb fell out of a plane. They don't only hurt physically, also emotionally they're painfull bullets. Those bullets are 'driving nails in the tree of pain', in other words: they're killing people. I think the rain in this case are the bullets of the American guns. It's a dark war, there's a howling wind, and a stinging rain. See the face of fear running scared in the valley belowīono tries to set a great, "scary", atmosphere here. See it driving nails into the souls on the tree of pain In the howling wind comes a stinging rain So, that's the background, that's what Bono has witnessed himself. Until 1992 (!) there's a civil war going on between the (supported by America) army and the communists (the poor people, the farmers, the regular people). America gives them weapons, but they stay in the background, wise as they got from Vietnam. Because America was afraid of the big Communism party in El Salvador becoming bigger, they decide to train the Salvadoran army and the police so they can carry on rulling the country. However, this governement is not solid and in 1980 they decide to quit. With the support of America a group of young officers manage to get rid of the governement and a new governement with Catholics, Social-democrats and communists is formed. In 1979 a civil war starts between the governement and the communists. The people start a group of communists, based on the ideas of Karl Markx. They wanna rule the country, they want free elections and a word in the state's policy. However, in the late '70s the regular people in the country start to complain. Ever since they started the country was ruled by 'The Fourteen Family's'. Since the time El Savador became an own country (It used to be a part of Mexico) it had a lot of trouble with dictators and small groups of people leading the country. First I'll give you some background info about the Civil War in El Salvador (I used the Dutch translation). Bono was in El Salvador in that period and he describes what was going on there in this song. ![]() I'm slightly bored right now, so I was thinking of doing a new lyric-thingie lolĪs Bono points out in U2 By U2 this song shows us the American bombings in El Salvador. ![]()
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