El Mozote
1993 · Lookout Lookout 73 · Prospect Heights, Illinois
- Artist
- Screeching Weasel
- Title
- El Mozote
- Release
- El Mozote / Janelle
- Year
- 1993
- Label
- Lookout # Lookout 73
- Format
- 7" · EP
- Country
- Prospect Heights, Illinois, USA
- Genre
- Punk · Hardcore Punk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
"El Mozote". Hardcore punk. Reference to My Lai massacre Somewhere in El Salvador There's a grave for seven hundred Pits full of guts And kids who were tortured and hunted By death squad soldiers Who won't ever be purged or punished Paid for by a government That our tax dollars funded... But that was so long ago And our officials have retired And once the stench is gone It's easier to forgive the liars There's so many atrocities This nation's since acquired And a Mỹ Lai doesn't mean much With the papers stayin' quiet
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — My Lai & Lt. William Calley Songs
- "El Mozote" - Hardcore punk - Reference to My Lai massacre Somewhere in El Salvador / There's a grave for seven hundred / Pits full of guts / And kids who were tortured and hunted / By death squad soldiers / Who won't ever be purged or punished / Paid for by a government / That our tax dollars funded... / But that was so long ago / And our officials have retired / And once the stench is gone / It's easier to forgive the liars / There's so many atrocities / This nation's since acquired / And a Mỹ Lai doesn't mean much / With the papers stayin' quiet
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Hardcore Punk group, formed in 1986 in Prospect Heights, Illinois, USA; founding members were Ben Weasel (vocals) and John Jughead (guitar).