Lines Are Drawn

from Bearing Witness by David Rovics

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Which side are you on? (Gaza 2024.)

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Around the world people try to read the signs
In other places they are on the battle lines
One side builds the ghetto walls
The other just wants to see them fall
One side is a sovereign nation
The other side is under occupation
One side cuts off the food supply
The other side starves and dies (saying)

You can back the fascists
Or stand with the resistance
Lines are drawn
Now which side are you on

One side has the fighter planes
The other has the backed-up sewage drains
One side says they represent the West
The other side proclaims this is a test
For the nations of the world to react
And demonstrate they understand the impact
What will happen if they don't
Whether it's because they can't or because they won't

One side says it's a surgical strike
But that's not what it looks like
To anyone else who's seeing this
It looks just like the apocalypse
It looks like a whole population
Being targeted for total devastation
Times like these, you pick a side
You can't be neutral in a genocide

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from Bearing Witness, released April 19, 2024

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David Rovics Portland, Oregon

Singer/songwriter, writer, podcaster (on Spotify, Substack & Patreon), anarchist, dad, lover of life.

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