They come with their tanks and their bombs And their hidden intentions And the last thing they want Is to be in your mentions As you call them out A genocide that you cannot doubt As they ethnically cleanse This will not come to an end Til they have erased the evidence of a people And the steeple Is no deterrent to the war They bomb the mosque and what it’s for Coz they have a reign And a plan to occupy again What they designate as theirs And the west is like “who fuckin cares” We’ll just watch over here from our couch And stay silent as a mouse In a house of cats While the baseball bats Of white phosphorous burns And history never learns Not to repeat itself Be quiet or your mental health Will take another knock But they level another block In the name of fighting terror Do you think their error Might be in the lifeless body a mother holds Like the stories that they’ve told Of their own past and legacy Do the brutalised visit their pain on me When they repeat the cycle And it is vital That we all recognise That whenever anyone dies At the hand of another There are no qualifications in that murder Under the guise of attack as a “sacred” role The logic of that is pulverise a soul Til it gives up the fight And you can sit by the firelight Warming your hands And say these are our lands To conquer and to own What will be the reflection when the true colour’s shown
Its just another form of oppressioning
You say I don’t hear what you’re speaking
And I may be so angry that that is true
Don’t want to engage with that side of you
As you override all that I say
And I think that you will achieve the day
But it doesn’t undo the march of time
And I pour my heart into my rhyme
As the only place my feelings are sacrosanct
Where you cannot irrigate the seeds you plant
And I don’t want to fight and I don’t want to war
So I just stand back and you know what it’s for
So just let me go and I will resist
Silently to what you insist
You can’t convince me and I won’t change
So just skip me over and you can rearrange
The furniture of your life without me in it
I can’t lend my voice so you can win it
So earn your just cause reprieve
And fight to the death for what you believe
I’ll find some other lonesome I can sail
Cause I don’t belong where you impale
And I’ll just find some quiet I can reconcile
What people do to each other every once in a while
And my helplessness at what I cannot face
That I could be something you would erase
And I guess it just comes down to that
Something went away and it never came back