Warning to Ahmadinejad: Manifesto

I don’t sing for love of singing

or to show off my voice

but for the statements

made by my honest guitar

for its heart is of the earth

and like the dove it goes flying....

endlessly as holy water

blessing the brave and the dying

so my song has found a purpose

as Violet Parra would say.

Yes, my guitar is a worker

shining and smelling of spring

my guitar is not for killers

greedy for money and power

but for the people who labour

so that the future may flower.

For a song takes on a meaning

when its own heart beat is strong

sung by a man who will die singing

truthfully singing his song.

I don’t care for adulation

or so that strangers may weep.

I sing for a far strip of country

narrow but endlessly deep.

Yes we have, thanks to Iran's 1979 revolution, learned ALL about resistance, with the myth that Jara died because he refused to stop singing ...