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Land and Freedom

from Notes From A Holocaust by David Rovics

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If it’s a struggle for national liberation and someone tells you it’s about something else, they’re lying to you

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You can paint it as a war of good and evil
You can pretend that your cause is just
You can try to say you have the moral army
And the other is just driven by bloodlust
You can say you’re on the side of western values
And the others represent barbarity
You can say your enemies want chaos
While you stand up for peace and prosperity

You can keep telling lies from here to Kingdom Come
But all that anybody wants is land and freedom

You can say they’ve got the wrong religion
You can say that they just want to hate
You can drop bombs upon their cities
You can say your God is great
You can speak of punishment and lessons
And how you must eliminate
All the terrorists that you had to slaughter
In the course of your affairs of state

You can claim that you represent the future
And the other represents the times of old
You can talk about how liberated your people are
Not like their feudal, patriarchal mold
You can talk about your love of life and liberty
You can paint a death mask on your foe
You can say what you like about your enemy
But you can’t change what everybody knows

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from Notes From A Holocaust, released January 11, 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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