Fixed Frequencies

Lyrics

Here in the land that Abraham was promised to receive We listen to you catechize from your pulpit overseas You mourn the proof of our barbarity But dry your eyes, oh Pharisee A settler's can't we both speak We both read from the same old played-out scripts and hum familiar tunes Broadcast on fixed frequencies Stuck in locking grooves We both profess noble intent As we civilize human impediments If your hands are clean, then *noblesse oblige* Wipe those "Who, me?" looks off of your faces and concede: Our designs are separated by Nothing more than place and time Different scenes, same crimes Pray, let him who's without sin cast the first statues of Former rogues turned folk heroes That your forefathers hung Don't lecture me about plundered soil While you loaf upon your father's spoils We want nothing more than what you already have: A comforting set of exculpatory "facts" Like, say, the myth of an empty land And a conquest so complete We can pull these tanks from our streets and Hand the loose ends over to bureaucrats and Become just like you: Lounging carefree in cafés Absolved from sin and human grenades *Entre nous*- How did your desert bloom?