Steve Pichan - recording artist: Music
You don't know Che
(Steve Pichan - recording artist)
2010-02-02
Steve Pichan - music, lyrics and performance
Che Guevara was glorified in the movie "Motorcycle Diaries" as a youthful progressive worthy of emulation. In the end, Che becomes sympathetic to the message of Fidel Castro and ultimately serves in his regime as chief "executor" of all those who refuse to tow the communist line. Despite the hundreds, if not thousands of deaths he orchestrated, his image is celebrated and worn by the likes of Johnny Depp, Carlos Santana, and a worldwide multitude of uninformed youths. This song exposes the real Che and challenges those who believe that idolizing him is somehow "chic". Celerating Che Guevara is as repulsive as celebrating Adolf Hitler.
http://cubaarchive.org/home/images/stories/che_gue
vara_report_11.12.2009.pdf
For a greater understanding of "You don't know Che!" and Che Guevara's murderous past. please visit the following link to a very comprehensive article about him. My lyrics are but a small window to what you will read and learn here. Author, Maria C. Werlau, is the executive director of Cuba Archive and her report "Che Guevara's forgotten victims" is both informative and enlightening.
http://cubaarchive.org/home/images/stories/che_gue
vara_report_11.12.2009.pdf
Steve
February 5, 2010
you don't know Che
like you think you do
as he takes us for his fools
and she does not know Che
as his image dons her shirt
dons their shoes
and we don't know the one
who with his finger pulled
the trigger of a gun
and they, how they romanticized
his motorcycle ride
before her father died
and laid him in the sun
stood along death's wall
before their names were called
just before their fall to doom
no cover for his eyes
he will count for them and decide
his time to die
and we don't know the one
who with his finger pulled
the trigger of a gun
and they, how they romanticized
his motorcycle ride
before her father died
and laid him in the sun
watch the boy who is just 13
standing in the yard
slowly fall into eternal dream
see her hurt and pain
for the one's they've lost
burn his image in the flame
and you who don't know Che
when you do, then cover up
his face of shame
for them denounce the one
who with his finger pulled
the trigger of those guns
and they, how they romanticized
his motorcycle ride
before her father died
and laid him in the sun