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Come gather round people
Enraged by this slaughter
And admit you’d act fast
To save your son and daughter
And accept it that we’ve been
Denying food and water
If all life to you is worth savin’
Then you better stand up
For humanity now
This genocide, it must be ending

Come senators, Congressman
What the actual hell
For human rights
You’re not doing so well
Seems like you don’t get it
Though it’s clear as a bell
The atrocities Israel is wagin’
Are a stain on your name
And legacy, truth to tell
Your genocide, it must be ending

What kind of democracy murders a nation
What kind of human being
sponsors starvation
Come cut off the funds
from this colonization
Your old order is rapidly fadin’
Dispossession, apartheid,
ethnic cleansing must cease
And your genocide, it must be ending

When I find myself in times of voting
Gaza’s people come to me
Suffering starvation
Bombs and tanks
The White House sends the weapons
The White House must atone for this
First line of your ballot
Leave it blank

Let’s be frank, Biden sank
I’m not a crank, my vote you need
There will be a ballot
Leave it blank

And when the broken hearted people
living in the world agree
Biden’s sense of justice is absentee
And though the White House funds it
There is still a chance that they will see
If they’re isolated
Leave it blank

Let’s be frank, Biden sank
I’m not a crank, my vote you need
There will be a ballot
Leave it blank

So break ranks, say no thanks
No more tanks for genocide
There will be a ballot
Leave it blank

And in our hour of slaughter
food and water aren’t allowed to them
One thing we can offer
Leave it blank
And in our hour of voting
There is still a chance to say our piece
There will be a ballot
Leave it blank

Let’s be frank, your morals sank
I’m not a crank, my vote you need
There will be a ballot
Leave it blank

So break ranks, say no thanks
No more tanks for genocide
There will be a ballot
Leave it blank

When I find myself at al Jazeera
Tony Blinken comes to me
Counseling more silence
Tone it down
And in our hour of bombing he is calming
As he comes to me
Speaking words of conquest
Tone it down

And when the broken hearted people
living in the world agree
There must be ceasefire, let it be
And though the Congress funds it
There is still a chance that they will see
If they’re isolated, Let it be

But tone it down, turn that frown,
Upside down, Let’s break it down
How can we kill Gazans
If people see?

And when William Lloyd Garrison
Reported news of slavery
Lincoln (not A. Blinken)
Said tone it down
He pleaded “be more mellow, dude”
You’re histrionic, now we’re screwed
Here’s my words of cowardice
Tone it down

Tone it down, please sit down,
nervous breakdown’s not what we need
Slaves will get their freedom
By degrees

And when the genocide of Cheney
In Iraq was videoed
Every President said
Tone it down
Assange will rot in prison
Cause he showed what Manning stole from me
Whisper words of murder, tone it down

Tone it down, turn that frown,
Upside down, Let’s break it down
How can we kill Gazans
If people see?

We’ve got to wake up
We’ve got to wise up
We’ve got to boycott apartheid
Now now now
We’ve got to build a better future
To fight for freedom this we vow

You’re occupying and always lying
Apartheid is but a step
to your final goal
Ethnic cleansing and dispossession
You’re destroying Palestine

Uprooting orchards, displacing farmers
Yes you tore it all down
and you lied lied lied
Israeli conquest is what we protest
US enabling genocide

So let’s all wake up
The truth let’s take up
No more stealing of water
and land and rights
We’re gonna build a better future
And we’re gonna start right now

Israel destroys the villages
We shall not be moved
And West Bank water pillages
We shall not be moved
Yes we’ll stand with Palestine
Until there’s justice
We shall not be moved

From homes they’re forced to relocate
They shall not be moved
They’re refugees from ‘48
They shall not be moved
So we’ll stand with Palestine
Until there’s justice
We shall not be moved

Stealing land’s their holy grail
We shall not be moved
Human rights must prevail
We shall not be moved
So we’ll stand with Palestine
Until there’s justice
We shall not be moved

They take the land of Bedouin
We shall not be moved
Destroying culture is a sin
We shall not be moved
So we’ll stand with Palestine
Until there’s justice
We shall not be moved

Chanukah oh Chanukah
Come light the menorah
Murdering the people
The fauna and flora
Sending in your bombers
The children to greet
No more toys to play with
Nothing to eat

And while you are killing
Your candles are burning so low
Think what you do
For it could be you
As it was in days long ago
Think what you do
For it could be you
As it was in days long ago

Flattening of neighborhoods is
Not in the Torah
When you kill a village
You’re opening Pandora

Firing up your bombers
You smash houses flat
Targeting civilians
Your safety you combat

And when you come calling
Only moments of warning you give
Their homes in your sights
You attack day and night
You remind us of blitzkriegs of old

Their homes in your sights
You attack day and night
You remind us of blitzkriegs of old