Mothers Of The Disappeared -- U2

Midnight, our sons and daughters  Were cut down and taken from us
Hear their heartbeats  We hear their heartbeats  In the wind we hear their laughters  In the rain we see their tears  Hear their heartbeats
We hear their heartbeats   Ooh...

Night hangs like a prisoner  Stretched over black and blue
Hear their heartbeats   We hear their heartbeats

In the trees our sons stand naked  Through the walls our daughters cry
See their tears in the rainfall                                                                         


Bono wrote this when he made a trip to El Salvador in the middle of the civil war in the '80s. In San Salvador, he met with the Comadres, who were a group of women also known as the "mothers of the disappeared." These women had lost their children, who were taken in the night by death squads, leaving the mothers unsure if their children were alive or dead.      


                              



The Salvadoran Civil War (1980–1992) was a conflict in El Salvador between the military-led government of El Salvador and theFarabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or umbrella organization of five left-wing guerrilla groups. Significant tensions and violence had already existed, before the civil war's full outbreak, over the course of the 1970s. El Salvador's Civil War was the second longest civil war in Latin America after the Guatemalan Civil War. The United States supported the Salvadoran military dictatorship. The conflict ended in the early 1990s. Countless disappeared and More than 75,000 people were killed.