Everyone’s sleepwalking through city square
It’s twelve fifty seven
And seventy families have bled black against Israel’s rockets
Come Sunday morning
The drunks in my hometown
Will be too hungover to recognise their own faces
While Palestinians across the world
Will have to sort through the bones of dead relatives
This country was built on colonial empathy
Freedom from suffering through self-absorbed apathy
We’re all sewn to our seats
Caring for nothing
Aug 26, 2014
Aug 26, 2014 at 8:59 AM UTC
Everyone’s sleepwalking through city square
It’s twelve fifty seven
And seventy families have bled black against Israel’s rockets
Come Sunday morning
The drunks in my hometown
Will be too hungover to recognise their own faces
While Palestinians across the world
Will have to sort through the bones of dead relatives
This country was built on colonial empathy
Freedom from suffering through self-absorbed apathy
We’re all sewn to our seats
Caring for nothing
12:57am, August 27th 2014
There are things of greater importance than ourselves that need addressing. Like the genocide of Palestinians, and the media blackout of it.
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