This is one of my absolute favourite rage songs. just reading the lyrics is amazing in itself then when you listen to how they fit them into such a banging tune. Just sums up everything rage are all about.
As written above the song is about the story of a mexican immigrant trying to send money back to his family, and the circumstances that meant he was'nt able to provide for them in his own country. The first verse seems reasonably well explained so i'll just talk about the second.
I tried ta look back ta my past long lost
A blood donor ta tha land owner holocaust
Pops heart stopped, in came tha air drop,
Flooded tha trench he couldn't shake the toxic shock
-hes talking about how the migrant used to have a history in farming in mexico before the 'land owner holocaust' where the US dropped large amounts of DDT ( a drug to kill mosquitoes a attempt to lessen malaria in the US.) The side affect being that all mexicos crops were ruined.) Previously the mexicans had this self sustainable farming but after the DDT drops the land owners could not pay the bills with no crops to show and the land was bought by american vineyards 'raped for the grapes'
Maize was all we needed to sustain, now her
Golden skin burns, insecticide rain
Ya down with DDT, yeah you know me, rapped from tha
Grapes, profit for tha bourgeois
War tape boomin' path is luminoso, I'm headed
North like my name was kid cisco
luminiso means 'shining' in spansish. However it is a reference to Sendero Luminoso, a Maoist organisation founded in Peru in the 80's. Its goal being a cultural revolution to overthrow a government it felt was only looking after the bourgeois and the common workers. Zacks basically saying that that seems to be he only option left to the mexicans.
Kid cisco was a fictional charchter that headed north from mexico into the US.
To survive one motiveno hope, it's hard ta
Breathe wit Wilson's hand around
My throat
-reminding us that all these problems were caused by the US's actions.
Strangled and mangled another SS
Curtain call, when I tried ta cross
Tha white wall
Bingo. Well done. Glad to see I am not the only person who knows what they are talking about ;) Wilson reference is to president Woodrow Wilson, who got the US involved in the Mexican Revolution
Bingo. Well done. Glad to see I am not the only person who knows what they are talking about ;) Wilson reference is to president Woodrow Wilson, who got the US involved in the Mexican Revolution
This is one of my absolute favourite rage songs. just reading the lyrics is amazing in itself then when you listen to how they fit them into such a banging tune. Just sums up everything rage are all about.
As written above the song is about the story of a mexican immigrant trying to send money back to his family, and the circumstances that meant he was'nt able to provide for them in his own country. The first verse seems reasonably well explained so i'll just talk about the second.
I tried ta look back ta my past long lost A blood donor ta tha land owner holocaust Pops heart stopped, in came tha air drop, Flooded tha trench he couldn't shake the toxic shock
-hes talking about how the migrant used to have a history in farming in mexico before the 'land owner holocaust' where the US dropped large amounts of DDT ( a drug to kill mosquitoes a attempt to lessen malaria in the US.) The side affect being that all mexicos crops were ruined.) Previously the mexicans had this self sustainable farming but after the DDT drops the land owners could not pay the bills with no crops to show and the land was bought by american vineyards 'raped for the grapes'
Maize was all we needed to sustain, now her Golden skin burns, insecticide rain Ya down with DDT, yeah you know me, rapped from tha Grapes, profit for tha bourgeois War tape boomin' path is luminoso, I'm headed North like my name was kid cisco
To survive one motiveno hope, it's hard ta Breathe wit Wilson's hand around My throat
-reminding us that all these problems were caused by the US's actions.
Strangled and mangled another SS Curtain call, when I tried ta cross Tha white wall
obviously, comparing the wall to the berlin wall.
hope that helps. love this tune.
You nailed it. Still not sure what Wilson is in reference to, though.
You nailed it. Still not sure what Wilson is in reference to, though.
Bingo. Well done. Glad to see I am not the only person who knows what they are talking about ;) Wilson reference is to president Woodrow Wilson, who got the US involved in the Mexican Revolution
Bingo. Well done. Glad to see I am not the only person who knows what they are talking about ;) Wilson reference is to president Woodrow Wilson, who got the US involved in the Mexican Revolution