Frank Turner
Come On, Sharon
Three / four decades bored...
Oh me oh my
I am almost speechless with the irony
Whatever happened to the victims of the most monstrous crime in history?
From justifiably angry camp survivors, steeped in zionism
To bookshelf copies of Mein Kampf with neatly crossed out anti-semitism
You're not learning the lessons taught
Your cycle of history is pathetically short
You were there, you saw and heard, and thus destroyed the lessons of Nuremberg
You'd kiss that shining Lipstadt
Fresh from judicial victory
But I class her academia with Irving, her enemy
And I won't have that accusing finger turned around and pointed at me
You compound your racism by painting criticism with the broad brush charge of bigotry
So think before you open your mouth and don't tell me it didn't happen
These sights and sounds engraved on hearts
We can't doubt the voices of the million dead
But we can't doubt the indigment of these honest men
(gaza, west bank, hebron, jerusalem...)
We saw your bloody thumbprints on the gun-stocks in beirut
And we heard your hateful footsteps at the temple of the mount
So come on Sharon
Face up
It's too easy to let hate breed hate but that'll never be a decent excuse