I don’t know what to do 
I just know I want to do something for you 
And if they’re bombing the crossing, people shelter there 
And I don’t know if they care 
If they see their targets as human beings 
With lives, with loves, with pains worth freeing 
And you would think the great illness would have brought us together 
Instead of this winter weather 
That always rains in the Middle East 
Another father, another doctor, another deceased 
And if this is not genocide 
Then I don’t know how anyone can hide 
Behind the rule of law 
And the great thaw 
That seems to be underway 
I know what the people say 
It’s everybody’s business when something’s on the line 
But something corporate is hard to define
As the wounded dance along and entwine
Protesting that everything’s fine 
But it’s not 
Have you forgot 
That mystery must always break into the unknown 
And when the grass has grown 
Will people look back with mute silence
Divesting their own part in the violence 
By mild complicity 
As the anger comes to your city 
In the guise of something new
We’re all interconnected and that means you