Translation: “If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.”
Update: Unfortunately, the more gruesome and macabre exhibits have been removed. It’s understandable but regrettable when history is censored like this. We live in a new puritanical age.
You have never been in love, Until you have seen the stars, reflect in the reservoirs And you have never been in love, Until you have seen the dawn rise, behind the home for the blind
We are the pretty, petty thieves, And you’re standing on our streets Where Hector was the first of the gang with a gun in his hand And the first to do time, the first of the gang to die, Oh my Hector was the first of the gang with a gun in his hand And the first to do time, the first of the gang to die, Oh my
You have never been in love, Until you’ve seen the sunlight thrown, Over smashed human bone
We are the pretty, petty thieves, And you’re standing on our streets Where Hector was the first of the gang with a gun in his hand And the first to do time, the first of the gang to die, Such a silly boy Hector was the first of the gang with a gun in his hand And the bullet in his gullet and the first lost lad to go under the sod
And he stole from the rich and the poor and not very rich and the very poor And he stole our hearts away
Morrissey’s lyrics are a cross between the inane and the sublime.
During 2004 six names were added to the list of US prisoners sentenced to death and later released on grounds of innocence, bringing to 118 the number of such cases since 1973.