While the Rest of Us Were Bleeding
When we are young they tell us Soar! They command, Soar! They impose, Soar! Soar! Soar! Right, they tell you, This is your country, This be the song. Freedom and Liberty and God and this Humanity And his elephants in circuses, And your wheat from grass made grain, Asses offered conceit and The rest of us with an opened eye This is how we made us Standing on shoulders Hunched, Raised This is how they paid us Pretend promises and Teary eyed They told us of the beautiful, She, the brave They never told us how to cry While the rest of us were bleeding While the rest of had our necks craned They couldn’t tell that When the fireworks stopped Sparks hanging still in the sky, The rest of us grinned At a smattering of red, Detonated the night For it was an omen A warning And only we knew why
