Is world peace just an errant thought
And can I be bought
As I watch the children die in Gaza
And the feminists are full of bravada
But they herald a movie about a drink
And deck themselves out in pink
While I watch an atomic bomb descend
The kind of suffering you cannot mend
And we raise man up high
But what happens when he starts to die
By his own hand
Individually when people don’t understand
Or as a collective in the fires of war
As we look on and wonder what it’s for
And some say freedom and other need secure
But I was locked behind a closed door
And they fastened the key
Far away from me
So I couldn’t get at it
How could I tell them I flat to the mat it
As I watch Sinéad walk up and down the hall
So I copy her coz fuck it all
And they’ve got their notes and pens
Figure that out, fuck you, amen
I walk backwards when I’m talking to that nurse
She says find a new way so I rehearse
How I can mime the way I feel
I say I feel sick and the Gavisgon is real
And pink in a little cup
I take it like a drug
That might do me some good
And they try to draw blood
From a turnip but I laugh when I’m in the bathroom
Coz I’m high on the sounds of doom
And they come and knock every fifteen minutes
“Just doing the check”, that’s the way innit
And there was nice shampoo left by someone else
I just found out it’s Israeli and bad for your health
So I don’t buy it in the shop
And you can say I’m anti semetic but I’m not
I’m just pissed off as hell
That you don’t see the humans you tell
To move to the south and into Rafah, refugees
And you would have them on their knees
Just so you could be taller than them
As if the Bible means that it happens again
Every great flood and plague of locusts
But I think you may have lost your focus
Coz the Arab population
Have as much right to an education
As the highest scholar in the land
The Sufi poets that understand
Things I can’t put my finger upon
And my words will live on after I’m gone
To bear witness and say
A just war is not okay
And at the break of day
Peace will come to land on the bay